Scratches

[MattU]

Cleaning my car today I noticed a lot of fine scratches on the drivers door, in 3 separate 'patches'. There are three scratches near the top of the door that are a quite deep, one of which is about a foot long and goes along the door and onto the next panel.

The other two patches are fainter, but looks as though there are a lot of scratches there (20+) like something has been scraped back and forth a lot... My first though was that it's been keyed, but I'm not sure, it's not as though a lot of pressure has been put on.

Any advice on how to repair this? Would something like T-Cut be worth trying or are there better ways? It's a (4 weeks old ) BMW in Melbourne Red (metallic).

 

[bitslice]

If you can't see the primer and it doesn't drag when you run a fingernail over it, then it may T-cut out, although on a new BMW I'd pay for a respray of that section.

 

[Mickey]

I'd have a go at polishing it out, worst that can happen is you need it respraying even after you've tried.

A few years ago an electric gate closed as I was reversing through it, scraping down the side of my A6 leaving some lovely deep scratches, multiple bodyshops said it needed a respray on at least the rear door:

I decided to have a try polishing it, worst case being I have it resprayed anyway. Here's what I managed to do using just T-Cut scratch remover, some elbow grease and then wax:

Mick

 

[leaskovski]

Thats impressive.

I guess your colour is a bit more forgiving though than red?

 

[Dead Dog]

If you can see the basecoat it needs painting. But sounds like it may not be that deep.
If its new you could always try taking it back to the dealer....."pretty pleeeeease" that sort of thing with a mop won't take long at all with a polisher.
T-cut won't touch it - you want 1500,2000 then cutting compound then polish

 

[Dead Dog]

Thats impressive.

I guess your colour is a bit more forgiving though than red?

If its polished out, its polished out regardless of colour
That does look a good save