Car Scratched deep (diy repair ?)

[tim12345]

I have a deep key scratch from front to back (yes back light to front light) on my Audi Q7. Looks like its gone through all coats and on to the metal. Any ideas on a quick fix? (garage will charge me £350 they said. The scratch is deep, cant see any dents but faithful TCut removes nothing.

[HustleRussell]

You'll never get a satisfactory result DIY. £350 is not an unreasonable quote.

[onesickpuppy]

tim12345 said:

I have a deep key scratch from front to back (yes back light to front light) on my Audi Q7. Looks like its gone through all coats and on to the metal. Any ideas on a quick fix? (garage will charge me £350 they said. The scratch is deep, cant see any dents but faithful TCut removes nothing.

So is it front to back or back to front? Make up your mind man!



ETA: £350 sounds reasonable considering it's 4 panels.

[kds keltec]

Thats a very good price IF the work comes out to a good level.

kelly

[tim12345]

Thanks for the replies, so to confirm it is from the rear of the car to the front hehehehe. What i was thinking.... touch up pen (halfords of matching colour) - then a drill with a polisher. Something like that anyway. Wha ti dont want to do though is ruin it before i do finally get it fixed.

[V8 Disco]

What colour/finish? As already said, you really need professional work to do it well, but I have had some success with smaller scratches on a plain black car, by filling the scratch with paint, letting it harden thoroughly, then very gently flat back to the level of the surrounding paint with fine wet&dry paper (wet) - finally polish up with cutting compound and then polish.

With a scratch as bad as yours, I'd pay the £350 though!

[7even]

tim12345 said:

garage will charge me £350 they said.

Thats an absolute steal! Its a Q7! The sides not far off the dimensions of a football pitch!

Bite their hand off.