Need Help-fixing egg damaged black BMW

[RDVT4ME]

This weekend I will be attempting to fix a black 3 series BMW that has been egged. I have not yet seen the car so I don't have lots of details. The owner says that most of the damage appears to be scratches instilled from the egg shattering.

It was egged during the night and she discovered it late in the morning. She then took it to the car wash and had it washed.

Anyone have experience with repairing damage from egging?

[rusty bumper]

Re: Need Help-fixing egg damaged black BMW

Originally posted by RDVT4ME
Anyone have experience with repairing damage from egging?

My egg damage had to be repainted unfortunately.

[Mike Phillips]

I have a picture on my hard drive somewhere of the damage caused by the shell impacting paint, I try to find it and post it.

Don't get your hopes up. Usually the shell creates divets in the paint like little chips, usually in a round or circle pattern. Fixing these chips would be akin to fixing a rock chip except they're typically a lot of them, they're small and it's difficult to do if not impossible, especially if the goal is to make the repair invisible.

In most/all cases that I've seen the best method of removing the defect is to repaint the area.

Go look at it, but don't get your hopes up and be prepared to explain to the customer that if in fact there are divets or small imperfections in the paint where paint is actually missing, the only way to fix this is to put paint back into the divets and then explain how difficult that's going to be and make it look good.

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
I have a picture on my hard drive somewhere of the damage caused by the shell impacting paint, I try to find it and post it.

Don't get your hopes up. Usually the shell creates divets in the paint like little chips, usually in a round or circle pattern. Fixing these chips would be akin to fixing a rock chip except they're typically a lot of them, they're small and it's difficult to do if not impossible, especially if the goal is to make the repair invisible.

In most/all cases that I've seen the best method of removing the defect is to repaint the area.

Go look at it, but don't get your hopes up and be prepared to explain to the customer that if in fact there are divets or small imperfections in the paint where paint is actually missing, the only way to fix this is to put paint back into the divets and then explain how difficult that's going to be and make it look good.

Mine looked the same way.

The egg hit close to 3 panels, and all 3 had to be repainted.

Fortunately, I had insurance (Comprehensive) to cover the damage at no cost to me.