Absolutely fuming

[dannyboi91]

Woke up this morning to a huge scratch down the drivers side of my car, starts on the where arch and goes over both doors and stops at back end.

I parked my old car in the exact same spot every night outside my house and this never happened and now something happens to this car. Looks like a key but cant be too sure as it is not too deep ands seems to disappear a bit when rubbed with water. Is there any quick fixes or am I better seeing a body shop?

Thanks in advance

Danny

 

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If it's broken the paint then you might be able to make it look better with some careful work, but ultimately you'll need to see a body shop if you want it doing properly.

 

[Never2old]

I bloody hate these type of people who do this, and all the hassle you,ve got too get it all sorted and money

 

[Daniel M]

Can you get your finger nail in the scratch? If its not down to the metal/primer it should polish out with a machine, otherwise its a bodyshop job.

Another way to do it is to put a layer of paint in the scratch using a toothpick or similar and build it up layer after layer until its flush or a little over the bodywork, then it would need wet sanding and machine polishing.

Stick a picture up if you can.

 

[dannyboi91]

Some bits are deeper than others, I will get pics up when I get home from Work. Since I bought the car I was contemplating getting a camera on my house as it is not the nicest of areas I stay in but thought I would be fine. It is definitely happening now and if I get my hands on who done it god help them.

 

[dannyboi91]

Didn't manage to get any pictures as it has been raining non stop all night. Took the car into a body shop last night and the guy said 40 quid to fix it which I though was cheap so I asked how much for a full correction and he said 100 and that is wet and dry sanding of all scratches, cutting compound with a machine polisher and had polish. I thought that was amazing so will be getting it done this weekend.

 

[Daniel M]

Seems very cheap for all that.

 

[duncinascoob]

Thats ****! I hate people who do this!!

In my experience a machine polish from a body shop is far different from that of a decent detail guy.
And I'd agree thats very cheap for how many hours it should take to fix, depending how bad it is.
I'd go and speak to a detailer too and see what they think.

I've seen some really poor machine polish work from body shops.

 

[dannyboi91]

Sorry this guy is a detailer and was recommended to me by a colleague at my work. As he had lots of cat scratches on his roof and apparently the guy worked wonders on it.

 

[askew]

Hope you get it sorted.

Super-paranoid about something similar happening to mine: seem to have had nothing but bad luck. Some chump smashed off the mirror on my old 1 Series; had a Honda CRX as a project and some arse keyed the nearside wing, while another reversed into the driver's door.

I want a driveway.

 

[duncinascoob]

Cool, hope you get it sorted and as cheaply as possible.

Terrible that people feel the need to damage others property that they have worked hard to earn!
SCUM!!