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So recently someone apparently tried to steal both my front and back MINI emblems, and left small scratch marks, down to thru the paint, each scratch is roughly a centimeter or less in length.
Anyone know the best way to deal with these? The proper way to touch these up? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
Yeah if you've got metallic paint, and the scratches go through the clear, then hire a pro. Not me--I can't drive to Sunnyvale to fix some scratches. LOL.
Maybe you should take some pix and post them so we can see the extent of the damage.
Richard
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Originally Posted by muggy
So recently someone apparently tried to steal both my front and back MINI emblems, and left small scratch marks, down to thru the paint, each scratch is roughly a centimeter or less in length.
Anyone know the best way to deal with these? The proper way to touch these up? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
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So recently someone apparently tried to steal both my front and back MINI emblems, and left small scratch marks, down to thru the paint, each scratch is roughly a centimeter or less in length.
Anyone know the best way to deal with these? The proper way to touch these up? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
If you post a good pic I can have a better idea of what the damage looks like. If you do that, I will be more than happy to write up a set of instructions on scratch removal and touch-up.
It doesn't make sense any other way though, the scratches are only around the emblems. I wouldn't even have minded so much if they took them without scratching my car, but I guess some people don't have any idea what the hell they're doing.
I'm not sure what to make of it. They appear to be gouges in the paint. Not sure what the yellow part is. From the pix, they look like glue marks. Thief must have been high or something to have missed that many times. Have you been able to "clean" the marks at all?
Once the yellow stuff is removed--I doubt they use yellow primer--then you can proceed to use touch up paint. I haven't tried this product, but it's gotten some interesting feedback.
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11% off everyday discount code: MINI11NAM 2010 Midnight Black MCCSa
They're definitely gouges, the scratches are a few mm's thick, the yellow just seems to be the undercoat or something, it was always yellow and after washing it looks the same. Perhaps my car was meant to be a LY...
Any advantage to using these products over MINI touch up? I figured I was gonna use the MINI touch up and scratch X it after.
Should I use this method or one of the other products?
These methods were developed to solve some of the shortcomings of touch up paint. When fixing lots of spots instead of getting evenly fixed paint, you get this measles looking fix especially with metallic paints which don't fix well due to the metallic flakes not distributing evenly. Often on dark metallics, you get these even darker touch up spots.
I haven't tried these products yet but I plan to test them soon.
Richard
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Originally Posted by muggy
Any advantage to using these products over MINI touch up? I figured I was gonna use the MINI touch up and scratch X it after.
Should I use this method or one of the other products?
__________________ 5548 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 866 707 9292
Looking for Prima?? Buy Prima at ShowCarSupplies.com
11% off everyday discount code: MINI11NAM 2010 Midnight Black MCCSa
In all of our testing, the color matches have been better than any others we've seen. Also, it tends to layer nicely. They also carry a clearcoat pen.
After using this touchup pen or any other styles/brands in a layering fashion, I recommend following with a light abrasive- gently and slowly.
We've had some great results with this product and process. Also, their customer service has been helpful (especially when we couldn't find a paint code in one case!).
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