Went out to my truck tonight to put a box in it and had the key in my hand and accidentally sctracted the drivers side rear door.
The scratch is about two inches long. Im sure this has happened to some of you, and im wondering what the best way is to fix it. I know wet sanding works, but have any of you done it and how does it come out? Any help would be great. Thanks

Vic

 

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY YOU SPENT ON THAT TRUCK!!! DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF NICE THINGS?

j/k

I figured you might not have heard that yet, so I wanted to be the first.

Sorry for your scratch, it will be ok, I promise.

 

Turtlewax makes a crayon that you can use to fill in the scratch a bit with black and then you can wax over it. It makes a pretty good repair, but not perfect. I'd use that for a scratch rather than trying to get it repainted. The repaint is never as good as the factory paint job.

 

yup, i have done both things harleyguy said. i got a little rock chip on the passenger rear fender, and tried the black crayon thing, but it looked more gray than black, and wore off eventually.

i have some fine scratches by my gas tank from those damn rag heads who pump the gas here in jersey cuz its illegal to pump your own gas here and they are total Aholes and totally careless! but i got some meguiars scratchx and it worked great! i've tried lots of scratch removers, but this was the best yet, but it only works for very fine surface scratches.

and i also had my passenger side door keyed when the truck was a month old. luckliy that door also had a paint defect on the bottom so the dealer repainted it under warranty. the bad part though is that it was only a sort of good job, so it is kind of orange peely, but better than a scratch IMO.

if you want it done right, take it to a professional body shop and shovel out the money and have them fix it. the dealer or a scratch remover or crayon will never look the same


good luck

 

What about factory touch up paint. Has anyone tried to use that. I have a few scratches on my black back bumper where the crack head at rhino lining climbed up on the bumper with boots on. I was wondering if that worked good.

 

thanks for the info guys Factory touch up it the option i will probably go. What i will do is touch it up first, then wet sand the area and if you do it right you will never be able to tell the paint was scratched, but i have never seen it done on black paint or neverless ford paint.

 

there was a post a little while back that intel posted on fixing rock chips. i'm sure it can sort of work for a scratch

here's the thread

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...=pencil+eraser

good luck

 

thanks for the info

 

The guy who installed my lightning bumper got a little clear coat happy and it made a run. He used a piece of wet sand paper that was a little rougher than a piece of paper. It took the run out no problem. Then he rubbed this stuff called midnight madness on it and you cannot tell that it ever happened.

 

If the scratch isn't through the clear follow these directions to the 'T'...

Depending on the depth of the scratch,(drag your pinky nail across it. If it catches proceed as follows. If it doesn't, skip the wetsanding.) you may need to wet sand with 2000 grit 3M wetordry paper using a rubber squeegee as a backup pad. Put 2 or 3 drops of dish soap in a warm bucket of water and soak the paper for 15 to 30 minutes. Sand with light steady pressure in straight strokes in a diagonal fashion across the scratch rewetting the paper often. Squeegee off the damaged area every ten strokes to see your progress. Do not oversand since the paper cuts fast. Follow up with progressively finer polish in a two to three step process and finish up with hand glaze or wax.

I'm a pro body and paint tech with over 20 years experience and have done this more often than I care to recall. It's tedious and nerve racking especially when the clear turns white from color sanding but the results are worth the work. Just be careful not to cut through the clearcoat.