Hi everyone,
I'm looking for advice on a small scratch on a new car.
I accidentally pressed the garage door clicker while the boot lid was open.
I got a quote from a mobile detailer for about $450 + gst but seems excessive for a scratch about half a CM.
Please see attached pics:
Thanks!
Plus one, or get a paint match pen and give it a smidgen of paint.
Get some paintmatched paint and fill it in/get a paintmatched spray from supercheap/repco and mask off the area around it. ~$20 or so
Multpile thin layers are your friend.
Do you mean like the touch up pens plus a spray?
Bingo, but i'd give the 'universal' touch up pens a miss
either a colour matched pot or spray.
Looks like you need to claim hail damage from the high quality photo.
Looks like its gone through the paint layer. nice.
I got one of these colour matched touch up kits from Colour n drive for the stone chips on the mrs civic. Does an alright job, though yours looks like metallic paint so not sure how it'd turn out.
Thanks for this website, I had trouble finding something decent!
No worries. I bought the basic kit and it comes with everything youd need, even some special sauce that you rub on to remove excess/even-out/stuffups. It also came from Germany which was suprising. thought it wouldve been China
Colour n drive make goods kits, very fast shipping too. For a local supplier, this guy is a master: www.touchuppaints.com.au. If you are in Sydney go and visit him in store, very helpful.
Yeah thanks, I'm in Melbourne unfortunately. To be honest his website put me off a little very hard to navigate or understand which products I need.
The detailer is likely that price because they'll source the paint (~$30) clean then overfill the scratch, wet sand, then polish. If you want to DIY it'll be a lot cheaper but won't look as good but you can get it close. If at all possible get your paint from the manufacturer (though I'm not sure Kia Aust offer touch up paint). getting paint mixed often won't be a perfect match for those tiny quantities as the formulas are done on weight and it's much harder to get right for very small amounts.
Touch up paint from dealer $20
Nail polish?
It'll give you a waterproof seal and fairly easy to match colours. Also, cheap
I'd say just put some similar colour paint on the scratch, let it dry (This prevents rust)
Then put up some decent sticker on that area of car. Sticker of your choice
From Sack Dan to Trump for America or mickey mouse or whatever you want
depends on what make of car many new cars have special ceramic paints just something like that would up the price of repair significantly, the images were hard to view very grainy, I'd just get the dealer to advise what touch up paint to suit and brush a bit on then seal it with clear nailpolish
I assume you're thinking of ceramic coatings. I'm not aware of any OEM that applies them. Not sure what images you were looking at that were grainy (unless you're mistaking the metallic flake?). Anyway, you're correct that ceramic coatings do make paint repairs more difficult but for a touch up like this, you wouldn't worry about it as you're not going to notice it except for when you're right up close like washing the car.
It has ceramic coating on. Its not grainy its just the suns reflection
Just ignore it unless it's gone to bare metal.
In six months time it will match all the other scratches.