Found this on my car this morning. About 20-25cm under the door handle.

https://imageshack.com/i/eysGbXDDj

Is this a key scratch? Door? Something else? Deliberate?

Thanks..

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Run your finger nail over the scratch, if you can't feel it then it'll polish out.

Doesn't look deliberate to me, people who scratch cars for fun tend to do the full length!

Doesn't look deliberate to me, people who scratch cars for fun tend to do the full length!

 

You say that but the mongrel is bearing a keying scar on her NSR door, but it's only about 20cm long.  Proper deep though. :(

Run your finger nail over the scratch, if you can't feel it then it'll polish out.

Doesn't look deliberate to me, people who scratch cars for fun tend to do the full length!

I do feel it. It's pretty deep. What can I do about this issue?

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Worrying about how it happened will not get you very far, unless you think it was deliberately done by a local.

I was sat in my car last year in a shopping centre, a woman with a very large bag with a big no buckle on it walked between mine and the other parked car and her bag left a large scratch down the side on the car. She was totally unaffected by it and walked on.

Unless you feel competent to repair this yourself using filler and paint from a car shop, phone around for the cheapest price to do a proper repair. In the UK there are mobile firms such as "chips away" who do quite a good job at a very reasonable price.

It is very frustrating as I take a lot care with my car, won't even let the dealer wash it after a service :0)

I wouldn't call any door step car paint rectifying company, a proper company more like bodge it charge you an scarper, the people I know who have used them in the past are not happy after the paint has bloomed and gone flat and the filler looks like a fried egg, the paint is of poor quality, some of there touch ups with a brush looks like its been done by a 4 year old.

You can not do a proper job out side (even with heaters) the filler takes a day to cure correctly then it almost always sinks and then more need's to added, then there's the air temp and humidity when they come to spray, it all adds up to a job needing doing correctly at a workshop.

It could be you've upset someone, could be someone was clumsy and brushed a jeans rivet as they bounced off the car, kids bike etc,

 

Looking at it it's too deep to polish, you may find a smart guy can sand it and buff it, this basically takes the edges down and the compound then lifts some of the existing paint and the heat generated then fixes the paint smear over where the scratch was, you need a good smart guy for this though someone who knows how to properly.

Hmmmmm...... looks like car park damage to me....

Superbpete hi,

I understand what you are saying it very much depends on the guy doingthe repair. My mate has an Msport Beemer, had two separate damages done and they have both lasted. Having said that they do have a local depot which probably helps.

It makes all the difference, if the cars going to be sold then buyer beware, but if its for yourself as you have said they have local premises a booth with all the correct heat, filters and baking facilities.

In the end you get what you pay for !

As someone who spends a good part of his life assessing the causes of damage and fraudulent insurance claims I can say with a good deal of confidence it is unlikely to be a deliberate key scratch. They tend to wobble as the person walks past and are invariably much deeper.. This type of scratch is more likely caused in a manner like Raptors was, pressure against the side of the car increasing causing the upward curve then lessening as it drops back to the start point. The fact that there appear to be two is just the pressure being released from the initial contact and reapplied as the person walks past. Boring I know but it is part of what I do.

As someone who spends a good part of his life assessing the causes of damage and fraudulent insurance claims I can say with a good deal of confidence it is unlikely to be a deliberate key scratch. They tend to wobble as the person walks past and are invariably much deeper.. This type of scratch is more likely caused in a manner like Raptors was, pressure against the side of the car increasing causing the upward curve then lessening as it drops back to the start point. The fact that there appear to be two is just the pressure being released from the initial contact and reapplied as the person walks past. Boring I know but it is part of what I do.

Thanks a lot niveketak! Not boring at all, good info.

This is good news to me. Even though I park way away from other cars and keep good distance this happens.

Sometimes when you try your best to prevent sh..it to happen, they happen even more. When you don't giva a sh..it, nothing happens. Irony. [emoji4]

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