How to repair a scratch in your vehicle’s paint
Scratched paint is the hardest paint repair there is, barring paint and body work, but with a little information you’ll be ready to tackle the biggest headache.
If you can see the scratch, but when you run your fingernail across it you can’t feel it, this is good news. The scratch will polish out. Recon recommends 3M Perfect-It 3 Extra cut Compound, you can buy it at any auto paint store, if they don’t have it, the fellow at the counter will recommend a product for you. Get a paper towel or a soft terry cloth rag, put a thimble full of compound on it and rub it vigorously into the scratch. The compound goes through a process, first of being a white colored liquid sandpaper, you’re rubbing will turn this into a clear polish in a couple of moments, when you see the white stuff go clear, change your rubbing motion into a light circular pattern until all the compound is rubbed in, wipe with a dry part of the towel and take a look. Repeat till the scratch is history.
If you feel the scratch with your fingernail, try the last process any way, usually a good part of the scratch will disappear leaving a smaller less noticeable scratch.
If the paint is gouged into the color, there are two repairs. First, you can run a bead of touch up paint over it, this fixes it 50%, it’s still visible, just not as ugly, unless you get globby with the paint. Keep trying and wiping it off till it looks appealing. The other way to make it go away is to sand it out and respray, this is the only way to make the damage disappear 100%.
We use a squeegee method sometimes, pushing paint into a scratch and then polishing with a chemical afterwards. Langka has a similar product, but the color is an eyeball match, I prefer the more expensive Paint Bull method, it uses Standox paint for a perfect color match, necessary with pearls and metal flakes, and an easier to use liquid polish over Langka’s solid compound. You can try this at home, but expect to mess it up a couple of times before getting it right. Buy some touch up paint from your local car paint store, put a bead on a squeegee and wipe it into the scratch. Let it flash dry, usually a minute or two, then carefully rub the excess off the undamaged paint with rubbing compound being careful not to pull paint out of the scratch.
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