same heredamn.. and i thought my bumper was bad...
same heredamn.. and i thought my bumper was bad...
Definitely get a paint job if its in the budget. Hopefully the bumper is repairable. And dont forget to post pics after the paint.
look like if my car lives to summer, im gonna just paint the bumpers and truck and scratch myself... unless i get a really good deal, well see
How will scratching yourself help the situation??
How will scratching yourself help the situation??
haha you guys are nuts.
i plan on painting the trunk/bumper/scratch soon because there is a charity car show in like a week and i wanted to enter. I just have one quick question:
i have primer and clearcoat already, i just need the black base paint. if i buy cheap black car spray-paint from the hardware store, will that be fine? will it match?? getting the paint code and having someone mix it will be stupid right?
Paint is one of the most esoteric automotive items out there. The price of a job varies, the quality of the job varies. There aren't too many hard and fast rules, other than this: get the highest quality job you can for the shortest amount of bread. For example, I've got a guy here in Massachusetts that would sand, prep, prime, shoot, and clear three panels for like $300, and take care of business. That beats the hell out of the possibility of me trying to do it in the driveway and screwing it up. Remember, a bad scratch looks better than a bad paint job. Also, if the do-it-yourself job goes south, you'll be stuck explaining it to onlookers. Not fun. "Well, you see...uh...I was sanding this here...you know...but then I went to paint it, and...uh, well..."
If you're truly intent on doing it yourself, have it mixed properly. Since you're not doing a complicated, rare Ford color like, say, Opal Frost, you should be able to have a small batch made up for relatively short money. Your call, but I'd be getting on the horn to your local quality paint guy and setting up a time to have him look at it.![]()
Black is a hard color to match sometimes though. You can't just grab black paint off the shelf and expect it to match. Heck, I had a shop paint some parts using my paint code and it was still slightly different in direct sunlight.
Don't cheap out with paint work.
for the scratch, should i tape a box/section around the scratch and then just sand/primer/paint/clearcoat that little section?
yea i think im gonna spend alittle extra and get it mixed up right, anyone know the paint code for 98 svt black?
and also, is this the best way to do it?:
UA is the paint code.
I would not recommend painting just a small section. It will not blend at all with the old paint.
ok thanks. what if i taped like EXACTLY around the scratch and sanded only the scratch and painted only the scratch? i cant afford to paint the whole car because of one scratch, if you had to fill in a scratch how would you do it?
Duplicolor paint pen.
ahhh thanks, ive heard of those before. is this the same thing?:
http://www.autobarn.net/du2in1scfix5.html
is that all you do, or should you still sand/primer/clearcoat?