So..the inevitable happened.. how to touch up/fill out a deep scratch?

[the_mighty_bucket]

Right, it happened, the first deep scratch on my 9 months old merc, it's just above the chromed line on driver's door, about 3/4 inch long, isolated and i just don't know when and how it got there...

Alas, it's all gone in vain, months of careful driving, parking, for nothing. Dammit, it's deep, i can easily feel it with my fingernail and my common sense tells me that it's impossoble to polish out. So, any way to touch up/fill out the scratch? i understand the fact that the damage is done, but any way to make it not to hurt my eyes everytime park under the sun?

THANKS!

Bucket.

[Shawn T.]

Re: So..the inevitable happened.. how to touch up/fill out a deep scratch?

Get some touch up paint that matches the color of your finish.

[the_mighty_bucket]

Re: So..the inevitable happened.. how to touch up/fill out a deep scratch?

Get some touch up paint that matches the color of your finish.

Thanks, but how do i 'fill' the scratch? I mean, it's still there, do i need to apply a very thin layer of paint every 12 hours or so until it even out the surface?

[Shawn T.]

Re: So..the inevitable happened.. how to touch up/fill out a deep scratch?

You could put several layers of primer followed by several layers of touch up paint, 12-24 hours apart. That should fill fit fairly well.

But, if you really wanted to fill then you could Bondo the area. I don't know how much filling you want to do.

[the_mighty_bucket]

Re: So..the inevitable happened.. how to touch up/fill out a deep scratch?

already trying the 'one layer every AM/PM way, but maybe i'm better off put a flag sticker over it and become a patriot...