Stupid,stupid stupid

[Primus1]

When I had my puma I accidentally lowered my automatic door on the front and marked the paintwork, well, I’ve done something similar today, I have a worktop and floor standing plastic cupboards in there, as I drove in I misjudged it and caught the worktop ( wooden) it’s marked the paintwork right on the top panel just before the bonnet, I don’t think it’s gone through the paint and with a bit of luck will polish out, only thing is, it will remove the paint protection I’ve had applied by the dealer, I’m such an idiot…..!!!😡

[TonyHSD]

Eee, 

you know,  a small trouble sometimes brings good luck and something better afterwards.
It’s a Christmas time and even though a incident like that can’t be unnoticed by any car enthusiast let’s be positive and celebrate the holidays and fix the car afterwards. Some pictures shared here might help with ideas from other members. And don’t forget to play the lottery, it might be your turn to win and change the Car for a new one. 👍🎄

[Primus1]

Thanks, it’s %$(in annoying as I did something similar to my last car, I still have the chipex repair kit, so I’m thinking if I order some dacuma grey paint and try that, not sure how much you can make out from the photo, I’ll take a better one later

[skidlid]

Dacuma Grey is lacquered and if its gone through this (very likely) you will never polish it out.

DIY paint repair always looks rubbish (unless its in a place where it does not catch the light).

As for the lottery its almost 30 years since it was started and I have yet to spend a single penny on a ticket. Many people I know spend a minimum of £10 a week (some quite a bit more - the MIL who was on a basic pension spent at least £20 a week) so over 30 years I recon I have saved myself over £15000. To me that is quite a result.

[Roy124]

Alan, new Corolla.   Get in car, toss house keys on pax seat.  Press start, press go, car starts then stops.   Press more go and car does not move.

You are probably ahead of me here.

Look in mirror and see garage door.

Car is barely a month old.  With trepidation I get out and see the garage door is bent but not a scratch on the car. Phew.

£350 excess and 3 weeks later I have a new garage door. 

[Roy124]

I got a surface scratch, about a foot long.  The repairers polished out three quarters but gave up and did a full paint repair - Decauma Grey.  Absolutely impossible to see even though I know where to look.   Yes, I lost the part where the garage had applied but you cannot tell and it cleans the same.    Even wonder if it had actually been treated 🤔 

Only advice from the repairer was leave for 48 hours and don't pressure wash.

[MikeSh]

3 hours ago, Primus1 said:

I’m thinking if I order some dacuma grey paint and try that,

Shiny new things never stay like that for long. You'll catch a stone sometime if not a door (or trolley) in a carpark.

If it's only the lacquer and top coat, get a grey or even black indelible felt tip and see if that hides it enough to live with. (These inks come off with white spirit or/and meths, so reversible if it's no good.)

[MikeSh]

My Yaris has a long, light scratch down half the passenger side. On a windy day a piece of chipboard leaning against the garage wall got blown onto the car. I heard this scraping noise and stopped, but driver's door was partway through the garage opening, so I couldn't get out.

To continue or reverse back? was the question ... Annoying.

[RonYarisX]

4 hours ago, Primus1 said:

When I had my puma I accidentally lowered my automatic door on the front and marked the paintwork, well, I’ve done something similar today...

You know what I love about your post...  the admission it was your fault 👍 because everytime I read of a scratch or dent or whatever else, ( marker allyes? )  it's always someone else to blame.

One of those dent magician types may be to sort it out for £60 or whatever but being old fashioned, I'd use a proper body shop who depending on their skill level, may be able to spot the paint in or do the whole panel. Spend no more than £200 of that £15000 you've saved and jobs a good 'um.

Incidentally I was playing an open golf competition at Aucherarder earlier this year, and the guy I was playing with did the lottery too. Three years ago he won just over £2m.   You got to be in it to win it.  🤣

[Guest]

Hopefully bodyshops are better in your area... but honestly with the total balls places near me make, I'd live with a scratch like that (which won't be noticeable to anybody else unless pointed out) rather than pay a few hundred, to have the whole panel not match or look wrong. 

[Rhymes with Paris]

Ah well, this will make you not like my post then Ron.

 Not my fault at all,, I parked in Sainsbury's car park to meet my daughter in law for a coffee, in the disabled bay.

Plenty of room on those either side, but while in there someone who could not,or will not, drive properly, scraped down the rear quarter of my 20 year old Yaris, while presumably reversing out.

Of course, no note left,or responsibility taken.

A great shame,as it has avoided scrapes for the 20 odd years it has been around.

Maybe they won the lottery too, but I am wishing that they step in every cowpat of the devil's very own herd, not that it's very likely at Sainsbury's.

 

 

 

 

 

[skidlid]

19 minutes ago, RonYarisX said:

One of those dent magician types may be to sort it out for £60 or whatever but being old fashioned, I'd use a proper body shop who depending on their skill level, may be able to spot the paint in or do the whole panel.

When we had the 2nd Silver Metallic Micra in a car park some kind soul hit the rear bumper on the drivers corner and took the paint off down to the black plastic. Nissan bodyshop said it was a new bumper and paint the rear and side to blend it in, the price was astronomic, made it an insurance job.

Wife used a Smart Repairer in town when their lease motors went back who did a good job. They had a workshop so not done on a wet drive. Took it down and for cash the chap said £55 and guaranteed we would be happy. Booked it in and when collected it looked spot on and whichever angle you looked in the silver matched the rear and side of the car, brilliant. Had car another 5 years and it still looked spot on.

Good places do exist that do not rip you off.

 

[Primus1]

I did have a car repaired usin a smart repair and it was a very good job, I did use the chipex repair kit on my previous car and it wasn’t half bad, if I say so myself, the Toyota dealer never noticed it anyway when I px it, now, can someone tell me how i explain it to my wife..?🫣

[Roy124]

I have had two repairs,  tre aforementioned scratch and a pin hole dent.

Both were repaired on my drive.  The scratch repair was hugely better than a panel respray.   My previous garage were perfectionists and did one panel repair which ended up with the whole side resprayed.   The second was a new wing and under some light conditions a slight difference.   Old car and I said acceptable.   A few  years later they bought the car off me.

The pin hole was a lesson on professional experience. I don't know how he could sense the impression on the inside of the door using only a rubber bung hole for access. Absolutely perfect fix.

[Big_D]

24 minutes ago, skidlid said:

Good places do exist that do not rip you off.

It's finding them that's usually the problem.

[anchorman]

I personally would not use a smart repair because I’ve never found one yet that’s any good.  I heard about very good ones but only from people that wouldn’t know a decent repair if it stared them in the face and only wash their car twice a year on leap years.  If you’re fussy enough to be upset about that mark in the photo, you either leave it, get a touch up and let it shout at you or get that panel painted.  I’m lucky because the best paint man in Derbyshire is right round the corner from me and luckily, you’ve got a paint line to go to which will avoid a slight mismatch.  You’ll probably find that in some light you can see a slight mismatch between the plastic and metal parts as the paint doesn’t take equally to both.  Don’t know where in Yorkshire you are but my mate is just near the border in Chapel en le Frith.  

[Primus1]

36 minutes ago, anchorman said:

I personally would not use a smart repair because I’ve never found one yet that’s any good.  I heard about very good ones but only from people that wouldn’t know a decent repair if it stared them in the face and only wash their car twice a year on leap years.  If you’re fussy enough to be upset about that mark in the photo, you either leave it, get a touch up and let it shout at you or get that panel painted.  I’m lucky because the best paint man in Derbyshire is right round the corner from me and luckily, you’ve got a paint line to go to which will avoid a slight mismatch.  You’ll probably find that in some light you can see a slight mismatch between the plastic and metal parts as the paint doesn’t take equally to both.  Don’t know where in Yorkshire you are but my mate is just near the border in Chapel en le Frith.  

I did use chips away a few years back and was pleased with the results but that was on a white car,thanks for the recommendation but it’s a bit of a trek from York…

[Cyker]

The smart repair did a very good job on my door - I literally can't tell where the scratch was (Although I am one one of those people that only wash their car twice a year on leap years that anchorman talks about   ).

 

[skidlid]

20 hours ago, Big_D said:

It's finding them that's usually the problem.

Here is the one we used. That was about 13 or 14 years ago but still in existence.

https://www.paintchiptechniques.co.uk/about/

[Knorton]

Two months and 800 miles in I came out of the chemist and saw the Badge on the front Bumper sticking out. when I went to look I noticed there was a ding to drivers side of the Badge! Right on the curve from the upright to flat of the bonnet. It did not happen at the chemist's so it must have been fro the supermarket carpark the day before. Checked the Dashcam and there was nothing. Took it to a local accident repair place AD Williams near me in Lydd Kent and on closer inspection what I thought was a crack in the paint was a crack in the bumper right above a plastic mounting bracket on the inside (but away from the radar collision avoidance sensor. They did a smart repair (inc a plastic weld on the cack) and repaint for £300 inc VAT and it matches perfectly. If I did not know what happened I would be none the wiser. NB I could have gone the insurance route but that would have meant a whole new bumper and then a trip to get the radar thingy re calibrated, (due to the car being new insurance insists on oe replacement parts rather than smart repair)

Kev.