Like a complete idiot I backed up into my son's car today. I used some touch up paint on the areas but I was thinking of just spraying the entire area. I know it won't be like repainting the entire bumper but I feel an Aerosol spray will cover the scratches up better? Any ideas?
Is this on an old beater? Because while you can get factory-matched paint in aerosol cans, just spraying it won't match the finish. You'll likely need a couple coats with color sanding, then clearcoat and wet sand.
If you post some pictures, people may be able to give better advice. I recommend masking much further away from the paint site than you think you need, because the breeze will carry fine overspray particles everywhere. Butcher paper or newspaper along the whole side/top of the car.
Here's an example of a paint repair using factory-matched paint cans:
Is this on an old beater? Because while you can get factory-matched paint in aerosol cans, just spraying it won't match the finish. You'll likely need a couple coats with color sanding, then clearcoat and wet sand.
If you post some pictures, people may be able to give better advice. I recommend masking much further away from the paint site than you think you need, because the breeze will carry fine overspray particles everywhere. Butcher paper or newspaper off the whole side/top of the car.
Here's an example of a paint repair using factory-matched paint cans:
I think that will be very hard to match yourself, doesn't it have some kind of flake in it?
It's hard to tell whether you just have transfer from the other lightly washing the area and then applying a very fine polish to see how much of the transferred paint it lifts off.
Because you already applied touchup paint, your microfiber will pick some of that up, but removing whatever transferred paint you can and smoothing mars in your clearcoat may be a big improvement. For what's left you may be better off trying to find a local paint corrector (you can try asking at detail shops) to see what's fixable by hand vs. needing a true respray.
The advice from @Thomby is good. If it were me, and I had already touched up with the factory pen, I'd get that off and start over with what he said. Clean everything thoroughly, use some rubbing compound and assess at that point what is actually your damage and not a transfer. No way would I use a spray can. You'd be laying down more area than you need. Those are more like deep scratches and don't look like they ripped into the base/color coat, or else the scratches would be dark/black plastic showing. But pictures can only convey so much, and what I said might not be applicable to the reality.
Sparingly putting touchup paint into only the scratches might be enough to not be noticeable from five or six feet away. If you can walk past the fender and not have your attention dragged to the damage, then that's good enough for this world. If that isn't working, then start asking those questions at the detailer/paint correction place, etc.
One thing to note here is that rubbing compound is a bit more aggressive than paint polish, so I'd probably start with a polish and then reassess. It may take a rubbing compound or wet sand to remove everything, but those will take a lot more of the surrounding clearcoat off vs. a polish.
Bummer, I did something similar recently but bit the bullet and went through insurance to get it fixed.
I did order some touch up paint - both liquid and spray - from automotivetouchup.com but never ended up using it. I did test it on some plastic and the color matched well, ceramic silver though, your color may be more difficult.
Would you not consider taking it to a repairer and getting it done properly? My repairer would remove that plastic bumper cover. It's plastic there I think. Heat treat it back to original shape, paint it with the proper paint code, bake it and return it in factory condition. That there would set you back $1000. $500 remove refit repair $500 paint.
Would you not consider taking it to a repairer and getting it done properly? My repairer would remove that plastic bumper cover. It's plastic there I think. Heat treat it back to original shape, paint it with the proper paint code, bake it and return it in factory condition. That there would set you back $1000. $500 remove refit repair $500 paint.
I got a quote to do basically the same for $900. Not trying to spend $900 on the car at this moment since it's basically only a cosmetic issue. Have to get two new sliding glass patio doors, new windows, among other things for the house. That $900 is a very hard sell to the Mrs with all we need to do. Plus, I need to get my hood repainted on the Lightning too.
I did find a place that will repair and repaint just that area for $500. They specialize in blending and paint matching. Maybe I'll give them a call after I figure out the doors/windows?
I went to the body shop. They removed the touch up paint that I applied. Then they buffed the area, then reapplied touch up paint with fine brushes. All for FREE! I think they did a hell of a job. Obviously it's not perfect but for free, I can't complain.
