so i go to get into my box to drive to work, beatiful san diego morning, only to find a fatty scratch on my driver side door. im not sure if it was keyed or not but regardless... wtf?! my boss at work keeps telling me to compound it but i dont really want to do that, and touch up paint looks really tacky. i know smoe people on here go through their insurance and the rate dosent go up because its vandalism... im not sure what i should do, and im open to suggestions...

 

goo!

how deep is it?

 

well its pretty deep, but it gets less deep from from right to left.

 

It may only be into the clearcoat. Before you turn it into insurance try clearcoat touch up then wetsand it with some 1500 paper and buff it. It may disappear.

 

gotta love jealous people.

when you hate something, but cannot deny it is nice and looks nice and especially see other people liking what it is that you hate and want everyone else to hate but they dont... it drives some people nuts. so nuts, to keying out of complete frustration. they are futile.

 

bastards

 

just put one of this over the scratchv

 

yea some people are just straight up bitter if i find out who did it heads are going to roll .

 

A nice bodyside graphic would cover that up.

 

1-800-CALL INSURANCE.











One of my co-workers got his truck keyed. the whole side. he went to the body shop and told them to paint the whole car. they said they couldn't do that. so he came back the next day and the rest of the car somehow got keyed...hmmm......and it was covered under insurance.

 

Just cover it up with one of these

 

This is another reason why we have to pay through the nose insurance rates. Insurance scams are stealing!

 

yea there's a bright idea...

INSURANCE FRAUD! that will make everything better.

 

yea hahaha def dont wanna commit insurance fraud. does anyone know anything abuot rubbing compounds? are they just bad news?

 

I use the 3 step Meguires process using foam pads on a rotory not orbital buffer. If you fill in the scratch with clear touchup first then sand it flat it should buff out nicely. Def let a bodyshop handle the job tho unless you have xperience doing it.

 

you have to be carefull with rubbing compounds, especially on clear coat paint jobs. I'd just check with a body shop "IF" you want it done right. A good paint/body shop should be able to "fade" paint the spot without doing the entire door.

 

does anyone have a ballpark guesstimate on about how much it would cost?

 

Seems to be ALOT of keying going around lately...

 

I should have also said a paint/body shop would be a better bet on "maybe" rubbing it out also.

"IF" it has to be repainted, I'm "guessing" around $150. But that's based on being in OHIO. I know stuff in Cali is more expensive, so say maybe $200 for you out there.

Best bet, just go to a few different shops and get some quotes for the work................THAT"S FREE!!!

 

Keyed.
As I've said before, it's almost always personal.
It sucks too.
What gutless a-holes.