Dr Colour Chip - repairing keyed car?

[Andehh]

Wife's 207 was keyed (we think parked outside the school she works at) sometime in the last week, it's a fairly well used & abused car so it isn't worth the cost of re-spraying three panels, but I want to try and make it look less painfully obvious. Looking at DIY repairs I came across the below? But it looks to only be in America.

http://www.drcolorchip.com/

Does anyone know of an equivalent product in the UK?

Thanks

[garryb]

Looking at the site shows a UK distributor

[t2007p]

Paints4you do a good kit comes with everything pretty much and is quiet cheap.
Kit Contents:
5 X Double ended paint application spears
30ml X Scratch Cleaning Solution
30ml X Bodyshop Quality Car Paint
30ml X Upol "Smart Clear" Acrylic Lacquer
1 X neoprene Rubbing Block
2 X strips of P2000 Ultra Fine Paper
30ml X Farcela Advanced G3 Liquid Compound
1 X Small Microfibre cloth

[Andehh]

Thanks mate, missed that in my depressed sulk at the damage. £30 for their basic repair, seems worth a punt when I get some time to look into it.

Any other suggestions before I order this at the weekend are welcomed!

[anonymous-user]

I've used this kit to try and repair a really bad key mark on my old 944. It's a bit hit and miss but did improve it somewhat. Just don't expect the scratch to be completely removed.

Our Golf got keyed on the passenger rear door a couple of years ago. I filled that using a turtle wax chipstick and the it actually improved it more than a Dr Colour Chip kit tbh.

[paintman]

Depending on the colour, the results of that type of touch in can vary from very good to very poor. Best hope is that it will take the eye off it & if some parts are down to the metal it will seal it & stop it rusting.
If it happened at school & she is a member of the NUT then talk to them as membership used to - & AFAIK still does - cover that sort of thing.

[Andehh]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, she very much uses the car as a 'tool' from A to B so isn't half as fazzed as I am about this sort of thing, there is enough other bodywork damage from various walls & posts to mean this isn't gunna tarnish the overall car, but the fact it was a deliberate vindictive damage just makes me feel sick. Anything I can do to make it less obvious is a help! Will look into the suggestions above though.

[liner33]

post a pic of the damage

I've not used one of those kits but repaired a couple of keyed cars

[Superhoop]

Have a look at Chipex - Same sort of thing and a similar price..

[Andehh]

[IMG] https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhtcip2lifo7y7o/20141125... [/IMG]

[liner33]

You'd be surprised what can polished out or at least made to look a lot better

Might be worth getting a detailer to look at it

[Andehh]

I'm not likely to get a chance to try this for a few weeks, does anyone have any recommendations on how best I can prevent it rusting, if it has gone all the way into the bare metal? Is it likely to pose large issues if I leave it un-touched-up until Christmas?

[liner33]

Give it a coat of Bilt Hamber Auto Balm should buy you a few months

[FreeLitres]

liner33 said:

You'd be surprised what can polished out or at least made to look a lot better

Might be worth getting a detailer to look at it

^THIS! Try some ScratchX before you do anything else.

Keyed Jag: GRRRRRR



After I did a quick polish with ScratchX



ETA: This is the stuff. Absolute magic! http://www.halfords.com/motoring/cleaning-products...

Just wash the area, rinse and dry. Then squeeze a small bead of ScratchX onto a clean cotton rag and do small circles on the scratch until the polish has worked in/broken down. It's really easy to get those results above.

Edited by FreeLitres on Tuesday 2nd December 22:22