... VERY ANGRY NOW

crusher101 · 05-03-2007, 02:02 PM

k i walk outside on this beautiful day and think ill wash my beautiful car... well no sooner do i wash my hood that i realize that there is a knick the size of a pencil eraser in my hood past the primer... WTF. anybody know the best way to fix this

jovez · 05-03-2007, 02:30 PM

touch up paint.

else take it to a body shop to redo the spot.

mygt500 · 05-05-2007, 08:13 AM

kenv · 05-06-2007, 05:58 AM

Yup! today`s touchup paints are pretty good.

wcgman · 05-08-2007, 01:16 PM

Okay - I've been through this exact same thing.

Get the little touch up paint bottle from Ford (if you dont have one from when you bought it.) If it's a metallic paint, you'll see shiny little flakes in the paint it's hard to match and I'll explain. If it's non-metallic it should be pretty easy.

Metallic paint does not go on the same way on every car nor even the same on different parts of the same car. The flakes in the paint (i believe they're actually glass or that's what I heard) will lay differently in the paint depending on temp, humidity and other environmental variables. Non metallic doesnt have this problem and just lays down evenly.

I used the pen tip on it with the best success. I'd depress the pen OFF of the car on an old piece of sheet metal and lay down about 4-6 light layers of paint until it was even with the surrounding paint. If it stood out I would gently use some rubbing compound after it had dried to blend it into the paint. This worked on my 06 tungsten (metallic paint) on every chip with the exception of one. No matter how I put it on it always stood out and I believe it had something to do with the angle perhaps of the spray when it was put on the car. That chip I had to take it in to an auto body and they filled and respayed that one chip in a difficult spot for 160 bucks. I couldnt tell you where it was at now.

I've done this on non metallic and it was a breeze. Blended right in.

In fact I was sick a couple months ago and when I was getting out of my tungsten in the garage I bumped a tin sign in my garage that hit my driver door and fileted it. It's at the same painter because the sheet metal had a little ding on it and that's going to be about 500 simoleons. Needless to say I am going to be more careful in the future. I tried to match that paint but no luck. Off to the stang painter!

Good luck - be patient and above all DONT lose your patience and screw up the paint trying to fix it. If you are getting in over your head take it in to be fixed.

You should also check out paintscratch .com for some good hints on fixing paint.