today while working i had to get something from my truck. after I closed the door, i bushed against the side of my vehichle. with a back pocket full of welding rods,i scratched it up pretty good It went down to the white base paint or primer. not sure what it is.

my question is, is there a product i can use to AT LEAST cover them up somewhat? i see thesemystery products on tv.can they possibly work? is there a product at the auto parts store that would work? in the old days you could use some compound, anr rub the scratches out. but with this thin, soft paint, i dont think that would help,probably make it worse.

Any help would be appreciated...THX

 

Take it to a good body shop and see if they can do anything. Sometimes a lot of that can be buffed out. Failing that Turtle was has polish with pigment on it but it is temporary at best.

Casey

 

How about this stuff?

http://www.langka.com/

 

You can't buff it out if the paint is gone. If you're down to the primer, you need to add more paint. Get the paint code(s) for your truck and go to a parts store or a dealer and buy some touch-up paint. Once that is applied and dried/cured you can then buff it out.

Also, none of the "mystery" stuff will work either since your paint is gone. If it actually is gone.....

Modern paint is VERY strong and durable. I'm wondering if your paint is actually missing and you are down to the primer or if you actually have some scuff marks on top of the paint? When you run your fingernail across the scratch, does it feel like it falls into a hole and catches on a ridge or does it basically slide across?

 

Presume your paint is metallic. If that is the case no touch up paint will match perfectly. I have some scratches on my truck and bought the touch up paint from the dealer by using the paint code. It is close but just applying it by brush and not spraying makes a difference. Over the years with different cars and various colors, all the same. Close, but no banana.
Right now I have a few really bad scratches on my tailgate that I stupidly put there myself and the only way I am going to get rid of them is to get the entire tailgate painted. I had the tailgate open and backed up over a barbed wire fence. Was backing up using the mirrors and forgot my tailgate was open so thought I had lots of room.

 

dodgedude361,
I feel for you on the scratches. I suffered a similar experience yesterday. My truck was dropped off at the dealer on 12/30 to have the injection pump replaced due to a fuel leak. Needless to say the technician scratched the fender. I called it to the service manager's attention and he said they would buff it out when I take the truck back in next week to have the fan shroud replaced. The technician said he broke the shroud when a wrench slipped. Not! It was broken on the passenger side top by the tech when he climbed into the engine compartment. He also rubbed most of the paint off of the Cummins and Dodge logo on top off the plastic valve cover. A wrench wouldn't have inflicted this much damage to the shroud on the side opposite the pump.. A one foot by 3 inch section of the shroud is missing. To make matters worse I left the truck overnight for them to replace the shroud the next morning and they ordered the wrong one, therefore it goes back next week. I told the service manager no thanks on his offer to turn the buffer loose on it and told him I would try it myself. Luckily it was not scratched through the clearcoat and I was able to make it less noticeable by first using clearcoat polishing compound without a buffer and then waxing. Too bad I can't do anything to fix all of the smashed fins on the condensor the tech kicked in with his feet while standing on my painted sport bumper. Yep you guessed it, scratches on the bumper too. It required the same procedure to make them less noticeable. This is why I dread taking any vehicle in for service. I called the dealer when I discovered the smashed cooling fins and he said he would take care of it also next week. Only time will tell. Sorry but I had to vent.

 

Thats nasty to read JONESEY.
IT really upsets me when notonly do they lie about what they di, they really do not make the effort to make it correct either.
I understand your fear of taking it to a dealer.

I need to get the swirls out of my black paint...I knew it would do this. Any suggestions on the best polishing compounds and procedures?
Griots?
Just PM me as opposed to hi jacking the thread.

Thanks

Scotty

 

I use only Race Glaze on my cars and truck. It is awesome it goes on and off easy and you can't over do it, it is a polish not a wax. It will take care of most all clear coat scratchs. It is only availible at most auto body paint stores or on the net.
Keith

 

Another good one is Blue Coral Scratch Remover. Comes in a tube, polish it with a orbital polisher. You know the ones that don't turn just vibrate. We took some pretty bad scratches out of mine with that setup. Made it look new again. Easier to get, Wally World, parts stores.

 

Sorry to get off the subject, but man....Jonesey I must say I am appalled at what happened to your truck when you trusted those guys to repair it. What a bunch of buffoons! This is one of the worst cases of complete incompetance I have read about on here. I would be ALL OVER THOSE GUYS! This is inexcusable. You have been violated in the worst way, by someone you trusted, and I would not rest until everything has been restored to better than new condition. Threaten, pester, bully...do not take lightly, nor forget what you went through to get that pickup, and they treat it like that? Tear 'em a new one, man.

 

This is the latest with my luck. I took my truck in again this past Friday to have the shroud replaced that was broken by the tech when he was replacing the injection pump due to a fuel leak. They did straighten the condensor fins that were kicked in on the previous visit. Everything appeared to be fine.

Today I noticed a couple of drops of coolant on the ground. I crawled under the truck to investigate. While searching for the source of the leak I noticed the shroud is not attached at the bottom driver side. The mount has been broken off of the radiator side tank allowing the shroud to flap in the wind. The tank is made of plastic or some kind of composite material as is the mount which is supposed to be at a 90 degree angle and is now an 180 degree angle due to being broken off. The only way to repair this correctly appears to be by either replacing the side tank or the complete radiator. I know one thing for sure, it is not going to be reaired with a drill and a nylon tie! Back to the dealer at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow. I appologize for getting off the topic again.

 

dodgedude - get yourself some q-tips, langka biloba, and a bottle of exact matching touch up paint from the dealer. You will have to supply your color code which is somewhere on the truck. Sorry to hear of your mishap!

 

Jonesey that really is poor workmanship. Unacceptable. Unfortunately when I worked at the dealership I saw this kind of work sometimes. It really bothered me. Yes I did brake some other stuff when doing some repairs, but always stood up to it and informed the customer MYSELF. Did not want any service writer getting the story wrong. Some shops work by having a master tech diag the job and a parts puller doing the actual repair. Wonder if this is the way that this happened.

Old School you gotta grow up. An attitude like that won't get you anywhere. Rip him a new one??? C'mon...

 

There now Spots, ya went and hurt my feelings In re-reading my post, I am more embarrased by "Threaten, pester, bully" ( I really can't stand folks who conduct themselves like an ambulance chasing atttorney) than I am by "tear him a new one". I was perhaps over-emotional when imagining MY truck with a bashed up radiator, and the paint scratched to hell, should I have taken it in for repairs. Just for the record though, I think I have actually enjoyed a pretty fair amount of success because of, not in spite of, my attitude. Though it may have come accross to the contrary, I have a great deal of respect for your colleages, or former colleagues as they may be in the automotive service proffesion.