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    Can I help my co-worker?

    Man, it's been a while since I've posted anything on this forum! Unfortunately, I've been sooo busy, I hardly get a chance to do any serious detailing, although I do always keep my car up.

    Anyway, I have a quick question. A co-worker of mine has a long scratch on her trunk and a couple scuff-looking scratches on her pasasenger door. The trunk scratch is a deep scratch that needs to be touched-up or repainted for sure. However, the passenger door looks like the clearcoat was scratched off but there is still the color coat.

    What needs to be done in this situation? Is there anything she or I could do? She said that she'd like to get it fixed but doesn't want to spend an arm and a leg. She doesn't want it to be perfect, but would definitely like to patch it up.

    In addition, how much would something like this cost at a body shop usually? The scratch on the trunk is about a foot long and half a cm wide, and the passenger-side scratches are maybe 1 inch long and approx. 1 inch wide. Thanks!
    -HealthyCivic
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    Re: Can I help my co-worker?

    If the scratch is through the clear then you would certainly be able to feel it with your finger nail and the rule if you can feel it with your finger nail applies. That is, it's too deep to be corrected with detailing. In some situations you could make a deep scratch look better but in this case if it's as deep as you mentioned, you'd probably be doing more harm then good. I'd need t remove so much surrounding clear that you'd weaken that entire area.

    A body shop is going to sand the area and then paint and clear the entire panel and probably the surrounding panels as well in order to blend them. Painting like this would cost around $250 - $300.

    Seeing the scratches would be a big help but I'm betting that the scratches are too thin to try touch up paint. Touch up paint works better on chips.

    You may want to use something like UC on these areas and see if it will lessen the visual impact of the scratch. Just don't spend hours on the one area going over it 20 or so times. Perhaps 2-3 times and call it a day.

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      Re: Can I help my co-worker?

      Sounds good. Where can I get touch-up paint matched to the car's color? The passenger side scratches are very much like chips, so I'd like to give that a shot.
      -HealthyCivic
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        Re: Can I help my co-worker?

        Originally posted by HealthyCivic View Post
        Sounds good. Where can I get touch-up paint matched to the car's color? The passenger side scratches are very much like chips, so I'd like to give that a shot.
        Google > "Automotive Paint and Supplies" along with your city/state. Be sure and have the paint code when you go

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          Re: Can I help my co-worker?

          Any auto parts place will have matching paint. The problem is that you'd need to add clear on top of it (to get it to look the same). That is the difficult part.

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