Hi, I was washing my car yesterday and noticed that there was 2 deep scratches on the left reflector. I got the car like 3 weeks ago and am pretty sure that it hasn't been anywhere that could have easily scratched it like that. However thats not the point of this. I feel its pretty deep. I have a sterling gray mustang. What should I do? Is touchup going to be enough for something like that?

Heres a picture (The upload failed so I had to use this weird site)


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Well, you could use touch up paint, but to make it perfect it would need repaint...

 

I dont think perfection is all that important to me at this point. I would just liked it covered up so it isn't all that noticeable. Thats a really zoomed in picture so its not like the damage is extensive but still makes me sad. Is there any touchup paint any of you would recommend or a brand that is well known?

 

I can't think of any particular name brand, but I needed some once, so I went to the paint section of advance auto, and they have a paint guide, you find your color and it tells you which paint code (located on the can, or pen) to buy.

 

welcome to car ownership. After a while, you stop caring.

 

You can order it directly from the dealer in a touch up bottle. Perfect paint match. Probably $10 - $15.

 

Dr Colorchip makes an excellent product. Unlike normal touchup paint if you follow the instructions Dr Colorchip repairs are almost perfect. It's extremely hard to see where the repair was done, and with a bit of careful buffing once you're done it's nearly impossible.

 

That would make me go into spasms. No way I could just use touch up paint. But, that's where my OCD kicks in. Maybe a body shop could feather in a touch up. Since the paint is new it should be EZPZ.

 

Ikr. Honestly I could never look at it and no one would notice easily. However every time I'm near my car or thinking of it I think about the blemish. Ugh. I'm really hoping touch up paint does the trick.

Anyways I ordered a bottle of touchup paint from ford parts and am going to go to pick it up. Hopefully it does a well enough job to make it not as easily noticeable..

 

Never!!!!

 

Great contribution to the thread...

 

Noooooooo!!! we need some first aid antibiotic ointment and bandages put on right away or she's going to bleed, this photo looks so painful.

On a serious note, although SGM is the nicest color to own they say the metallic paint is toughest to match when correcting. The flakes (sparkly particles in metallic) has to do with the temperature, day and time it was sprayed, also depends on an angle that was done... lots of variations.

The touchup paint (motorcraft) from the dealership seemed like the best solution at the time, didn't want to spend too much for some scratches... not a good idea.

I'm still looking for that bastard who made scratch on mine btw, let me know if you see him...

 

It is difficult but you can get the touch-up near perfect. Was a big learning curve for me, finally got it.

 

You feel my pain. I'll try out the motorcraft touch up I got yesterday and post pics of how it looks.. I guess this I a good time to show the grey beast off.

 

Negative on that. Never has to me, never will. 20 years + of caring

 

I hear u there!! I'm probably 10x more paranoid now than when I 1st got my car... Especially when I paid a good amount of $$ on mods so far

 

I've had good results using Langka along with OEM touch up paint, but that looks nasty. It could take awhile using their system but I doubt you could make it look worse.

 

Until you come up with a better solution, the new Turtle Wax Black Wax does an excellent job of covering up imperfections on black cars. I just used it on my wife's 2003 Miata and it looks better than it did when I bought it. Seriously!
It's about $9 at WalMart.

 

So I put the touchup paint on it, and its not exactly what i was thinking. It is really noticeable as it is coming out lighter, although more coats are darkening it a bit. Anyways, PonyMuscletang was spot on when saying it is the toughest to match.. Does anyone know how much it might cost to fix that small spot?

 

Pretty sure you'd need valium.