Can touch up paint fix this?

[EvilleGT]

I was a dumbass and scraped my fender pulling into the garage to park it for the winter. I don't have any experience with touch ups or paint but I was thinking Dr. Colorchips should be able to fix this. What are your thoughts? The scrape is down to bare metal. Do I need to do any sanding/prep work? Primer?

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[miccontreras]

I think touchup paint will make it look better, but no way to get it back to 100% without a respray (at least in my opinion) and probably not worth given that doesn't look too bad and you have white car, which will make the touchup less noticeable.

I've used Dr. Colorchip on two of my cars. My experience is it works really well on rock chips where you have a distinct lower spot and edge where the paint can settle before you wipe it down with their special wipe down chemical. I've not had very good luck on scratches like this where there wasn't a crisp line where the original paint was gone. Hard to tell in your pics whether you have that chipped edge line, but I think it would be worth trying. I think their system gives a better result (in the right situations) than does regular touchup paint.

I believe there is a process to apply paint, color sand and do that multiple times until you get the paint level and then color sand and go through the polishing process. However, I've never tried that because I'd respray before going through that much effort.

That sucks and good luck with repair. Others may have better ideas than I do.

Mike

 

[10r80]

Unless you’re ready to go get it resprayed, just use touch up paint for the time being. It’ll still be noticeable, but a little less than it is currently.

 

[limited02]

Use a touch-up of your choice and then you can use something like this to level it out and then polish it: https://www.autozone.com/sandpaper-...sh-1st-mini-block-tool-with-refill/749297_0_0

I have that sanding block kit, but the one I bought actually had an assortment of pads from 1000 grit up to 3000 grit I believe. Had a pretty deep scratch that I filled to be a touch taller, wet sanded it down and polished it out.

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