paint scuff damage

[afmilboy02]

so long story short my wife at a slow speed backed into the neighbors driver's side door and made a decent scuff above and below the rub strip.  with that said, the neighbors are cool and dont really care but i want to fix this situation.  the car is a 98 sebring and has more swirl marks than you can imagine.  I have the older setup with severe, swirl & haze, polish, etc. 

 

any tips or advice?  i plan on cleaning the area, claying it, iso wipe down, taping and then getting to work.  what am i missing?

[THE Mook]

Pics please so that we can better coach you!

[McDuff]

While Mook and others will give you specific tips to make the scuff come out the best possible, I say take the time to even do a quick clay, polish, wax on the entire vehicle and they will be so shocked they won't even look at the scuff area. LOL

[Chris@Adams]

Pics please so that we can better coach you!

I agree.....pics please.

[afmilboy02]

the pics are at night tried to get good angles but now I cant work on it until Monday because they are going out of town. 

Edited December 20, 2013 by afmilboy02

[afmilboy02]

the pics wont load now... ill figure out how to load them

[GXPaycheck]

Try photobucket. Easy peasy.

[afmilboy02]

alright I have an account now... how do I load them into the forum?  sorry for the confusion, thanks. 

[jbjones85]

in photobucket there is a "img" section, copy that link and post it into the reply here on the forum.  I hope that makes sense. 

[afmilboy02]

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[afmilboy02]

the top part is the portion that has the bump dent and the lower portion has the clear coat from my wife gmc terrain on it.  ill post some pics of her damage which I got a good look at and there is definitely some paint work that will be required.  wtf?!? 

[afmilboy02]

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[afmilboy02]

there is also a small dent on the lift gate from the neighbors mirror.  after looking at it all I am seriously considering paying the $500 deductible because where the white line on the edge of the bumper there is no paint plus the dent in the lift gate!

[mc2hill]

You may be able to remove those with clay and polish, looks promising.

[afmilboy02]

Corrected but not perfect 

 

Corrected area right next to un-corrected in next pic

 

un-corrected area next to area above

 

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couldn't fully get the scuff because it is in the dent area but once it is pooped we should be good to go 

Edited December 24, 2013 by afmilboy02

[afmilboy02]

my collection... garage is messy!

 

don't mind the stuff on the lower shelf that is just a learning curve! 

[jbjones85]

nice improvement.  I would say for the casual observer it is not noticeable.  

[afmilboy02]

Overall, the neighbor was very happy to see the scuffs vanish and due to the overall condition of her vehicle we can consider her vehicle damage corrected and complete.  I was only able to correct to a certain extent my wife's portion of the damage to her car because the paint damage. 

 

damage to gmc

 

more pics of damage to gmc

 

damage

 

somewhat corrected

 

still trying

 

last one  

[afmilboy02]

So once again, the wife commends Adam's and endorses my growing addiction to constantly view the "Adam's Specials" section.  Let me know what you think.