Cars been keyed
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Soldato
Ouch I know how you feel mate, had my Golf for 2 days and some little scrote keyed the passanger door!!! Was totally gutted, luckily it wasn't as bad as yours and I have repaired the lighter scratches with a kit from Planet Polish and am doing the deeper scratches this weekend.
I did have one question I have filled in the 2 deep scratches with touch up paint and then I am going to sand these down, then polish them but should I spray a clear coat/lacquer over the top when I have polished them?
You should be able to do DIY that scratch but its gonna be a pig to do if its 3m long!!!
I did have one question I have filled in the 2 deep scratches with touch up paint and then I am going to sand these down, then polish them but should I spray a clear coat/lacquer over the top when I have polished them?
You should be able to do DIY that scratch but its gonna be a pig to do if its 3m long!!!
Dude keyed my MX5, a day after I bought it. Caught him on camera in the car park at college, and he's already been expelled and told to pay the repair costs.
I still want to find out where he lives and absolutely beat the living **** out of him. There's literally nothing more infuriating than people who do that to your motor.
That person didn't even know me! I ****ing hate humanity sometimes. I hope you get it sorted out fast and cheaply.
I still want to find out where he lives and absolutely beat the living **** out of him. There's literally nothing more infuriating than people who do that to your motor.
That person didn't even know me! I ****ing hate humanity sometimes. I hope you get it sorted out fast and cheaply.
Soldato
I agree.
@ OP,
There is some hope of making it even less visible without respraying with a touch up kit, wetsanding and polishing.
One guy managed this on his Polo:
First:
The scratch length:
Claying:
Filling it up with a touch up stick ( once per 3 days a new small layer, for a couple of weeks):
Wetsanding with patience:
Finally Polishing
Result:
If you have the time, patience and don't think it's worth respraying it's worth a shot.
Or if you have the stuff, and ARE planning to respray it, it's also worth a shot, if you mess up then no harm done since it was going to get resprayed anyhow.
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Soldato
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But it cost a couple of tenners ( provided you have the pads&rotary already)... As you can see from anywhere but from inches it's not really visible. A respray of one third of the car is significantly more.
Do people want to spend a couple of hundreds or a couple of tenners, if they don't sit at looking 20 inches away looking at the bodywork? I doubt Joe Average would notice there was a scratch there if he saw the car, unlike before.
Besides, even if you ARE planning to respray it, why not give it a go with a touch up stick and wetsanding yourself first if you have the time, if you mess up or are unhappy you can still go to to the sprayer.
We're walking about saving 8x the money here or more.
Of course if you're a busy person earning enough not to worry about a couple of hundred for respraying 1/3rd of the car or 1k + for a full respray... But if you have loads of time and little money on your hands...
You have to admit it looks many times better in the last pic than in the first couple of pics, even on such a small image (2nd pic) from so far you can see the scratch slightly under the red line. On the last pic you can't see it from FAR closer.
The guy already had all detailing things like a rotary&pads, 2000grit and 1500 sanding paper, and polish. He only bought a touch up stick, a claybar and lubricant, a couple of tenners for that result, it's an amazing result imo.
All that effort is to not spend xxx or xxxx quid but xx quid to an acceptable result instead.
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Soldato
The Polo....WTF.
It's metallic black, there was NO POINT in touching it up just to sand it off again!
Why didn't he just sand it then polish it up?
Or just flatten the laqeur with G3.
Looking at the pics it's hard to say but he probably could have got a better finish still without going through the laqeur.
It's metallic black, there was NO POINT in touching it up just to sand it off again!
Why didn't he just sand it then polish it up?
Or just flatten the laqeur with G3.
Looking at the pics it's hard to say but he probably could have got a better finish still without going through the laqeur.
Soldato
The post says he used the touch up stick to fill the scratch before sanding it, I assume this didn't work that well because the new paint sanded off far more easily than the existing paint. I don't know however. All I know is that the result is very nice imo from the scratch he started with and quoted most of the pics.
Soldato
You wouldn't want to fill the top layer of laqeur with black paint - because that would be like me covering a patch of gloss on my wall with undercoat!
Guy is a n00b and should stick to detailing the exhaust pipe on his 1.0L Polo y0.
He hasn't done a bad job, but my guys could have done that in an hour max not 3 weeks or whatever it took him!
Soldato
Because I had the audacity to park outside her house, even though it was a private road and she didn't have her own car. She just hated the world and the feeling was mutual.
Like so many of her neighbours, I didn't go to the funeral. Apparently, the community would like to install a dance mat on her grave...
What did she die of, is the question.
Id like to think she died I'm a pool of her own lonely evilness, but I think it was old age. I didn't really care.
Soldato
His intention wasn't putting any paint on the clearcoat and fill the scratch, obviously with the standard brush that's impossible, better to have normal paint in there than primer or even bare metal showing ain't it ? But that is harder than it sounds I'd assume.
He said he did the filling in 6 layers 15 minutes of work each spread over a couple of weeks.
Then 3 hours sanding & polishing it.
With the last 3 pictures barely showing the scratch ( only 1 of the 3 pics actually shows it), I find it hard to believe you can wetsand and polish a whole line on the side of a car in an hour.
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Caporegime
Mines just been keyed too. White car also so stands out like a sore thumb. Got myself some touch up paint and some langka chip repair so going to give it a go. The scroats also pinched two of my valve caps for their bmx and half the cars down the street had their wing mirrors kicked. Im only two weeks from buying a house with a garage and the car managed to survive 2 years being parked there unscathed. 
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Soldato
Valeters don't get paid £10 per hour.
Soldato
What don't you understand? There was no point putting any paint in the scratch because the scratch had not penetrated the laqeur, all he's done is polished away the laqeur to make the scratch less visible which he could have done just using cutting compound.
So there was no primer showing or any bare metal showing, it hadn't even penetrated to the point of past the top layer of laqeur because that finish would have been unachievable if it had.
You may find it hard to believe but then I suppose you don't have to deal with this on a weekly basis.
Soldato
Im with you MAZ, all that effort when a g3 would have done the same job.
Pretty poor effort that tbh.
Pretty poor effort that tbh.
Soldato
He says it WAS down to the base coat/primer. The finish is achievable BECAUSE he filled it with a touch up stick.
http://translate.google.nl/translat...epe-en-lange-kras-wegwerken-auto-gekeyed.aspx
Read it yourself if you want, yeah it's not his car I see now but it's quite clearly through the laquer. I don't see anyone else questioning his method even though it's a detailing forum or making claims it's only in the clearcoat...
Can't believe I'm defending a guy I don't know but your claim from a couple of pictures that it's not through the clearcoat is ridiculous.
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Kensington. I've been parking there about 3/4 times a week mostly overnight for about 6 months, I came out one day to find my ariel half way up but that's it, and it could have been a kid rather than anything malicious. I've not really been round Toxteth much, I was probably about a mile outside the town center. If I was in a busy road right in the thick of it I would have expected it more to be honest.
Was it Dr Colourchip?
How long has it been there - has it dried or anything? If you're willing to part with it, how much would you want? I might be interested in that, the results look pretty good. Although I'm not sure how much I'd need, it only shows it being used for smaller chips on the site.
Nice one, I'll contact them and ask for a quote.
Thanks, Yeah I thought about setting up a camera, but even if I had done it and caught the person, it's going to be a drunk who I don't know and can't do anything about it. If it's a neighbor I'd be able to do something but I think it's unlikely. I might set up a camera next time I'm there though just in case.
Sadly I don't have a rotary machine, I'm probably going to have a go at DIY depending on what quotes I can get. Thanks for the pictures, makes me a bit more hopeful about mine though, I can't justify a respray, I doubt I'll get the money back when I sell the car.
Mines just been keyed too. White car also so stands out like a sore thumb. Got myself some touch up paint and some langka chip repair so going to give it a go. The scroats also pinched two of my valve caps for their bmx and half the cars down the street had their wing mirrors kicked. Im only two weeks from buying a house with a garage and the car managed to survive 2 years being parked there unscathed.
Sorry to hear that, I haven't checked the valve caps actually, I'll check in the morning, wouldn't surprise me if they were gone too.