Hey,

Found out this weekend that some little scumbag in Uxbridge has significantly keyed all four of my doors.... Nice early xmas present ey?!

Incident happened on Worchester road, thought I'd tell you all to avoid that area

Insurance want £400 and me to loose all my no claims, how much do you reckon it is for a respray to all four doors? Cars coming up to 100K anyway - so not sure if its worth the extra money to sell it or just to run it for next year or two with all scratches over until she finally dies?

Any advice would be great, cheers

Pete

(will try to get pics up some time later in week)

W*ker*....

Really winds me up reading anything like this. Sorry to hear it bud and whoever did this they will get "Karma"

Were you parked in someones space or something?

A good body shop would want to spray the whole car, just doing the doors would make it look obvious.

Unless you want the doors sprayed a different colour.

Maybe try giving one of those mobile repair people a ring? I've heard they're cheap and do a good job

I would get it done. At 100k the car has plenty left in it.

Well, when someone keyed one of my doors it was £100 for a respray so going by that I'd say £400

Yeah does suck, wasn't in anyones space as its just a road with plenty of parking...

I was fearing it may have to be a full respray, which in black magic is gonna set me back over a grand isn't it? :(

Might call a mobile company, does anyone have any reccomendations?

Cheers guys

People like chips away deal with scuffs etc so maybe try them?

I guess it depends how deep they are, is it down to bare metal?

I guess it depends how deep they are, is it down to bare metal?

Sadly most of them are, someone really went for it...

This infuriates me reading posts about people doing this to other people's things.

Have you got any pictures of the damage

This infuriates me reading posts about people doing this to other people's things.

Have you got any pictures of the damage

Will go and try and get some now, might be difficult in the dark though!..

Will go and try and get some now, might be difficult in the dark though!..

Dont do it dude.. it will only **** you off more..

Location will also help mate for recommendations just re-read!

Sorry to hear this mate, aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrssssssseeeeeeeholes!

Dont do it dude.. it will only **** you off more..

Just tried to no avail.. will have to get some during daylight later on in the week

Could you work around it a bit, its very difficult given the damage tho. could you use a pin to feed paint into the crack ? (the paint pens are useless, way to much paint on the end of them).

Face it, it couldn't look worse no matter what you do, plus you could have it happen again if someone has it against you. Plus it won't cost much to at least give it a go.

Once you have the paint just into the crack, and possibly raised around the edges you can then use MICRON abrasive pads on a backing micro polishing hand mop to sand down but that would obviously rub down a bit around the area too.

So you have to be careful you aren't taking all the paint off and just rubbing in to flat off a bit.

You can use 3M finesse it as final polishing too (rather than something like T-crap - note they don't use that stuff in factories and silicones and paint don't mix by the way, whilst this stuff does and is much finer too)

I had an incident with a barrier (partly my fault, well maybe a lot my fault, well I forgot very early at work that they have barriers)

I've spent time and not spent 1p on repair to anyone else, just the spray can, and the expertise/advice of the old man which has proved very useful

Still not perfect but thats mostly down to not enough time spent on it and the weather at the time of year not being so good.

By time we are finished (next year if I keep the car) it will be very good and probably indistinguishable from a perfect repair

At 100K (like mine is) I wouldn't worry about it being perfect anyway

black is a very easy colour to spray and touch up, its a spray painters fav colour

Silver being the worst.

black is a very easy colour to spray and touch up, its a spray painters fav colour

Silver being the worst.

Too true. Very hard to match silver properly. Black is a doddle in

comparison. I have a brand new Halfords black magic pen set for sale if the OP

is interested. Worth a punt for a tenner posted IMO. PM me if interested.

Go to halfords and get them to mix the paint for you. Did this for mine to touch it up... Spot on color. If yours is black magic it has red in too believe it or not... Had the person mixing it check twice when she put red in.

Thanks guys, will have to look into this when I have a minute, very busy at the moment, will have a go over Christmas I think (depending on weather!)

Cheers

You need to at least touchup the areas where its down to the metal before it starts rusting, and given the time of year with all the road salt, you really need to be doing that as a priority.

You need to at least touchup the areas where its down to the metal before it starts rusting, and given the time of year with all the road salt, you really need to be doing that as a priority.

Was just about to add, get the metal treated to prevent rust and give it a blow over with some paint, at the end of the day, as long its not really obvious its gotta look better.

this happened to my astra some years ago and i just used some nail polish to touch it up and i was like it never rusted, try and get something in the deep scratches for the time being, jealous they are. try nail polish.

Seconding the "just get something in there" approach. This time of year is worst for sorting this stuff out. Unfortunately, it's also worst for left bare metal to start rusting.