Keyed Hood Touch Up Paint Enough?

[M3NVCE]

Welp, some a**hole had nothing better to do with their lives ... touch up paint would suffice from a body shop? What would be a decent price point to look out for when trying to get this fixed?

[tebbnsx]

Originally Posted by M3NVCE

Welp, some a**hole had nothing better to do with their lives ... touch up paint would suffice from a body shop? What would be a decent price point to look out for when trying to get this fixed?

Originally Posted by M3NVCE

Welp, some a**hole had nothing better to do with their lives ... touch up paint would suffice from a body shop? What would be a decent price point to look out for when trying to get this fixed?

People really suck bro. I'm sorry about that. Can you feel it with your fingernail? A repaint is probably the only way to make it right.

[M3NVCE]

Originally Posted by tebbnsx

People really suck bro. I'm sorry about that. Can you feel it with your fingernail? A repaint is probably the only way to make it right.

Could barely feel majority of it. The portion closer to the bumper (1/2 an inch) can be felt by my nail. I think a buff and polish just might take most of that out.

[cionide]

That looks very deep, that will be very visible with touchup. It might look ok from certain angles but from most will very super visible, especially it being a large flat surface like the hood. You might be able to get away with it on a white car, but not with this.

I accidently scratched my quarterpanel with some stupid fucking zipper on my pants - very visible after touchup too because the paint is metalic. Don't even get your hopes up. You're not buffing that out either.

[M3NVCE]

Originally Posted by cionide

That looks very deep, that will be very visible with touchup. It might look ok from certain angles but from most will very super visible, especially it being a large flat surface like the hood. You might be able to get away with it on a white car, but not with this.

I accidently scratched my quarterpanel with some stupid fucking zipper on my pants - very visible after touchup too because the paint is metalic. Don't even get your hopes up. You're not buffing that out either.

Definitely not the news I want to hear hahaha. Trying to make the situation feel better than it is, but just have to face the reality that it just might have to be repainted...sadly.

[IK6SPEED]

Originally Posted by M3NVCE

Welp, some a**hole had nothing better to do with their lives ... touch up paint would suffice from a body shop? What would be a decent price point to look out for when trying to get this fixed?

Color?

[G35POPPEDMYCHERRY]

smh man. sorry this happened to you. going to need a respray. the hood will be very noticeable with touch up

[cionide]

Originally Posted by M3NVCE

Definitely not the news I want to hear hahaha. Trying to make the situation feel better than it is, but just have to face the reality that it just might have to be repainted...sadly.

It's actually worse then you think, because they are going to have to spray that fender too to blend it otherwise the colors won't match if you want it perfect... If you don't want to paint that much car, see if you can find a hood in your color and swap it instead, and put your old one up for sale on ebay or something.

Same shit on mine, my scratch is RIGHT BEHIND the door so just enough that both the door and quarter-panel must be painted. I did touch it up, but with metallic paints depending on the light it will go from almost invisible to more visible then before touching it up... Had I gotten the door instead, my friend who sells bmw parts would have put on a used YMB door and we'd have called it a day.

[M3NVCE]

Originally Posted by cionide

It's actually worse then you think, because they are going to have to spray that fender too to blend it otherwise the colors won't match if you want it perfect... If you don't want to paint that much car, see if you can find a hood in your color and swap it instead, and put your old one up for sale on ebay or something.

Same shit on mine, my scratch is RIGHT BEHIND the door so just enough that both the door and quarter-panel must be painted. I did touch it up, but with metallic paints depending on the light it will go from almost invisible to more visible then before touching it up... Had I gotten the door instead, my friend who sells bmw parts would have put on a used YMB door and we'd have called it a day.

Actually read this on a different thread also
The best option just might be getting a second-hand hood.

[hlm2c]

It's a sign to upgrade to a GTS hood

[DadVibes]

Originally Posted by hlm2c

It's a sign to upgrade to a GTS hood

I would use this as an opportunity for that upgrade, as well.

In fact, you could have a body shop quote you on a new standard OEM hood and have that cleared with your insurance. Then have the shop order the GTS hood and pay the difference out of pocket.

Alternatively, you could have the shop quote you on the GTS hood and try to have that covered by insurance. However, that may be pushing a questionable legality situation.

[noone]

Why would insurance pay for a new hood vs. just paying for a respray? The hood is not even dented.

[9M71]

Originally Posted by noone

Why would insurance pay for a new hood vs. just paying for a respray? The hood is not even dented.

And people wonder why rates are high. Plus accident on record just to respray.

[DadVibes]

Originally Posted by noone

Why would insurance pay for a new hood vs. just paying for a respray? The hood is not even dented.

Yeah, in retrospect I'm not sure what I was thinking with that one. It makes precisely 0 sense for them to replace the hood, over just a respray. Disregard.

[gabriel.psd]

Totaled completely. Time for a GTS Hood.

[drgmt]

They will have the same difficulty matching a GTS hood which needs to be sprayed.

Just respray the hood. It won't be noticeable to 99% of people.

The other 1% are anal retentive obsessive compulsive forum dwellers - and who cares about them anyway.

[M3NVCE]

Thank you for all your inputs fellas, found a second hand oem hood for a decent price and most likely will just swap it out.

[t5pilot]

A Chipex kit will sort that completely. It's fantastic stuff.


https://www.chipex.co.uk/car-scratch-repair/