Main event: Brick wall vs. Black paint!

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imported_Guido

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So I just started parking in a new garage and didnt realize how tight the doorway was.

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I'm VERY intimidated about using sand paper on my car. But I'd also like to hold out on going to a body shop for a few months. I saw the insanity GSRstilez calls scratch removal on this thread http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66082&highlight=son+scratch but between having to use sandpaper and also having to apply wax in the winter, I'm a bit nervous I wont have the same results.



What do you guys think?



thanks!
 
ouch...the girl in your background doesnt look to happy with you :(



hmm.....poor car.....i dont have a clue on what to do :(..just thought i would post here and ignore my girlfriend :getdown
 
Guido: I wouldn't attempt what I attempted on the TL without a lot of practice.





If you want to use your car as a test bed, then I can talk you through it via PM.





Just a note, black is one of the harder colours to coloursand on since you will see any ridges or dips in the paint.
 
well the way i see it is i have to get it repainted regardless. if i mess up the paint surrounding the area it is still gonna cost the same to have the entire quater panel repainted. plus i'm an anal *******, I wont drive the car with it looking like that lol. pm sent
 
If the paint is gone there is no amount of colorsanding you can do to fix this. If it is a paint transfer you can remove the white paint then sand and polish.
 
the paint is gone on 95% of the scratches. why wont colorsanding fix this? If i'm adding touch up paint, then sanding it down and buffing, wouldnt that work?
 
doing proper touch up takes alot of time. on a very small rock chip that I had on my good, it took me about 2 hours to completely fill in, sanding, and then polish. this was my first time though, I'm sure i can do it a little faster now. with the size of those scratches, it WILL take a good while.
 
Looks like a Mustang, the rocker panel flares were getting beat up on mine a few years ago and got a spray can of Duplicolor universal black, filled the low spots with a glazing putty and sprayed away. After clearcoating, wetsanding, compounding the color matched perfectly. From the looks of your picture, there may be some creasing in the metal which may make it impossible to hide with paint - hard to tell from the photos.



You have a lot of area to cover, I wonder if you'd be able to mask off the surrounding area and spray the scratches with light coats. After wet sanding, you might be able to blend this in. This is going to be tough to hide and will be a long process using touch up paint and a toothpick or brush. If it was my car and knew it was going to be repaired in the future, I would be tempted to smooth out the edges with Scratch-X and take a sharpie to the scratches so they weren't visible from 20 feet a way. Not Autopian, but a quick temporary fix.
 
I think the top scratches can be done, but the ones on the bottom are going to be difficult. I did a similar scratch/scratches on my car last year and it turned out well but it was a lot of work. The only real advice I can give you without knowing your specific questions is to use 3000 unigrit paper when sanding. It's much, much easier to polish out than 2000 or non uni-grit. Here is my before/after. The scratches were about 5 inches long and to the metal.



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If you're going to touch-up with paint and then sand, I'd wait til it was warmer (like over 70) to make sure you have a good application of the new paint. As you implied in the first post, I'd wait that long for a professional repaint, too. In the meantime, even though I'm sure it'll drive you crazy, I'd clean and protect the surface with a nice layer of wax. Of course, I'm just a rank amateur and that's just what I'd do in your place.
 
ok guys, first off big thanks to GSR -- I crown him Pope of Autopia. :)

IMO it looks 10x better then it would of if I just added touch up paint. I'm happy, especially since it was my first time. At certain angles you cant see it at all, others you barely notice it. You definetly cant see it from far away though so the car is driveable once again. My only problem was that sanding with 1500 grit paper (followed up with 2000 grit) didnt seem to want to even out the surface. I was sanding lightly for about an hour and then went over it with compound, it looked pretty bad. I started sanding it again but a little harder. Hit it with power gloss and it looked better but still not 100%. I sanded using a good amount of pressure and noticed that the center of the marred area seemed to blend in with the rest of the paint but the edges of the area were showing. I'm guessing the sandpaper wasnt hitting it so it created an outlined area which stood out because it wasnt being filed down with the rest of the paint. My hd crashed so I havent had the time to upload pics but I will try to do it this weekend. I was thinking about going over the area again with 1000 grit sandpaper first, then 2000.
 
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