Removing SCRAPES and SCRATCHES on my car =]

[CLIFFSTAR 616]

I drove into a sandstone wall as I was doing a U-Tturn haha

The bloody wall was fine, but it left this scrape/scratch on my rolla :(.

Its a very light scrape, but as you can see its quite obvious.

Any tips on DIY removing this?

Cheers in advance fellas.

[KevO]

hrmm you might need a respray.

no polish can remove that i dont think lol

-BK-

EDIT: you u-turned into a wall ? way to go lol

Edited March 14, 2009 by BlackKnight

[CLIFFSTAR 616]

You know where I can find the color code for the car?

I don't want to get a different shade of the colour accidently.

I was doing a U-turn in like someones driveway, and I didn't have enough room. :( haha

[123R-Prozak]

i know on my falcon its on the compliance plate, where your vin is.. look there??

[Suprathai]

For the meantime you can try to polish and wax it to try to recover as much as possible. Only problem is that you actually have paint scraped off, which would require a bit of bogging/sanding and a respray.

If your paint is metallic, then touchups would show quite easily. I think a full bumper bar repair/respray cost around $200.

[Gab]

its had to get touch up paint for the corollas

i needed to spray some parts i rang toyota they said u cant get any cause there jap built

i didnt believe them rang up a few more same deal

when to a touch up paint shop gave them my code the paint was different

went to another place same thing again but the guy said that code represents 6 different shades

they said i had to get it electronically matched which takes time

i hope its easier with your colour mine is blue/grey

but i might be wrong

[johnnieboi]

Yep, what suprathai said. You'll need a bumper respray, you can rub and scrub all you like.. my old celica had 2 small bumps on the rear that made the paint start to strip off, cost me 400 for total respray. It was worth it, turned out pretty close to the original color and was clean as, couldnt even tell.

Just need to talk to the guys doing it.

[Collola]

Normally for very light scratches, i would recommend using meguiar scratch X. But for your case it looks too severe for the product to cover the scratches completely. I would recommend looking up local paint repairers that can do minor paint job repairs that will definitely cost lesser than a re-spray. I googled up one of such companies http://www.dentwizard.com.au/index.html there might be others nearer to where you are. Hope that helps.

[JessicaLouise]

Man that sucks!!

Looks like the paints been scratched off..

If it were rubber or plastic actually left as a scratch on your car i would say use gif. I did once, it seems to have just enough microbeads to get the stuff off with a little elbow greese without wreaking the paintwork.

:(