Car Vandalism / car scratch repair
Discussion
I've already reported to the police.
As a fellow quant, Londoner and petrol-head i'm sorry to hear that. Scumbags. I can recommend a really good bodyshop my side of town (SW London / Surrey) if you can't find anyone. They can provide a courtesy car as well. As mentioned above might be able to repair without a full respray - they did similar with my MX-5.
fido said:
As a fellow quant, Londoner and petrol-head i'm sorry to hear that. Scumbags. I can recommend a really good bodyshop my side of town (SW London / Surrey) if you can't find anyone. They can provide a courtesy car as well. As mentioned above might be able to repair without a full respray - they did similar with my MX-5.
Thank you, it would be great if you can send me the details please?It is indeed scumbags, neighbours.
320d is all you need said:
Dave. said:
A good detailer may be able to polish/wetsand that out.
Too deep to do that.It will need a respray.
Very scummy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIfSyuHxT3s
Actually - that's a bad example
Don't use this guy!This is more like it.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5QAjWbx03s
Edited by Dave. on Thursday 15th October 15:02
I've done some detailing in the past actually, made a fair living out of it before my back gave way! I'm rather aware of Larry
While you may do this on a single panel on an older car, or a "runabout" , I certainly wouldn't be applying touch up to the entire side of any vehicle especially a nice one.
To get a good result takes a lot of practise/experience. Your average home user will make it much worse. Applying good quality touch up is rather an art form.
To detail a whole car and "touch up" a deep scratch the entire way around a normal car (take for example, a Golf) you'd be looking at approx £350 for the detail (with a basic wax, add £150 for ceramic coating) - Then the scratch would be a further 1-2 days of work to have a good presentable result (IE "hard to see").
Day rate of perhaps £250 per day... soon adds up. Wouldn't get much change if any from £1000.
For a cheaper car (EG a Golf) it would be cheaper to source the panels you can swap in the correct colour (wings, doors, bonnet, boot) from a breakers, and either touch up or have resprayed the rear quarter panels.
Having repaired a few scratches myself it is surprising what you can get out, especially with wet sanding.
If the scratch is only in the clearcoat, it can totally be removed. If there are sections of the scratch where it’s gone down to the colour coat, it can be touched in with clear, sanded and polished.
If it’s gone through to the primer or to metal it can still be built back up in layers and be invisible.
Unfortunately this takes time and a bit of skill, (but not much because even I’ve managed to learn to do it).
If the scratch is only in the clearcoat, it can totally be removed. If there are sections of the scratch where it’s gone down to the colour coat, it can be touched in with clear, sanded and polished.
If it’s gone through to the primer or to metal it can still be built back up in layers and be invisible.
Unfortunately this takes time and a bit of skill, (but not much because even I’ve managed to learn to do it).
I don't understand why people do this. Just ridiculous.The flat and polish "may" work, to see if you have a chance there are normally two quick checks.
1) Wet the surface, can you still see the mark? If you can't a flat may work. Normally you will find there are high sided vs low sided parts, as pressure is rarely even.
2) Does the surface have much of an edge? Feel with your fingerprint. Again if no edge/or much, a skim may help.
Like others have said, if all the panels are affected. It will be full respray territory
In terms of bodyshops, I don't know about east London but I have heard near Wimbledon that Merton Crash Repairs Ltd are good.
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