my poor baby

[spoolboy]

well, I was leaving a local coffee shop after work and as I was pulling out of the parking lot another car was pulling in, so I put the clutch in to roll back a bit to give the guy a better angle to get in, and then I here "CRACK"!! How in the hell did I not see that minivan behind me?! It was about a 2km/h collision so the damage wasn't huge, just a nice couple scratches and a broken tailight. F$CK. So I am curious who has used touch up paint before, and how good this is gonna end up looking? I am very pissed at myself, and hope that it will not be noticible once fixed

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0a8e334bd80000001610

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0ac5e40bb20000001510

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0ac5d18ab70000001510

[Dr.Sound]

damn dude, sorry to hear that

sorry, but i havent used my touchup paint yet..............

[Aaron]

that really sucks well i have 2 nice size cracks in my windshield it BLOWS!!!!

[bruce95fmla]

You can take it to a body shop and have them wet sand it and spray it down ... they don't have to do the whole bumper, or might not have to ... ask them and see..
I think it will be very noticeable with touch up paint ...especially to you.
Bruce

[spoolboy]

would a dealership be able to do it, or is my best bet a bodyshop? Looks like this mistake is gonna cost me some coin.

[Dr.Sound]

wet sanding it and spraying it down sux !
Bruce, sorry dude, dont mean anything against you, it wont work with mica paint.

gotta do the whole thing, or it WILL look like crap.

had the same thing happen to my Electron Blue Civic Si which also had mica in the paint, and let me tell you, since we have metal flakes in the paint the color matching doesnt work well.
You'll have a dark circle where they tried to color-match cause the new metal flakes will be on top of the old ones.....
Avoid it if u can.

-Victor

[Dr.Sound]

body shop wont do it as well as a dealership would
plus it will come out to be almost the same price cause the bodyshop would have to special order the paint from the dealership, and that would cost them a grip.

[bruce95fmla]

Doesn't it depend on which body shop you go to . from working on my front bumper I noticed the difference between Quality(painful).Some shops do better work than others. also the dealer will also send the Car out to a local bodyshop to do the work ... Which is what they did to my car and my dad's 99 Accord.
bottom line .. Hopefully you can get it all fixed for not to hectic of a price.. but anyway you put it .. It will cost you a few bucks
Bruce

[RAAZ227]

yeah.. take it to the body shop and have them respray it. Touch up paint looks like sheit!

[Dr.Sound]

i just thought about it........
anither plus of repainting your whole bumber is:

our paint is very thin, so if u redo the whole bumper, for another 30 or 40 bucks u can as for a couple of more layers of paint and a couple of more layers of clearcoat.
It will be harder to scratch the car later on than with stock paint.

just a thought

dealers usually have their own body shops with much better facilities than regular ones. at least that's how it works here in Cali.

-Victor

[kwiktsi]

Originally posted by spoolboy
well, I was leaving a local coffee shop after work and as I was pulling out of the parking lot another car was pulling in, so I put the clutch in to roll back a bit to give the guy a better angle to get in, and then I here "CRACK"!! How in the hell did I not see that minivan behind me?! It was about a 2km/h collision so the damage wasn't huge, just a nice couple scratches and a broken tailight. F$CK. So I am curious who has used touch up paint before, and how good this is gonna end up looking? I am very pissed at myself, and hope that it will not be noticible once fixed

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0a8e334bd80000001610

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0ac5e40bb20000001510

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d922b3127cce8a0ac5d18ab70000001510

Trying to make the pic out- is the black where paint is scraped down to the bumper or is it scuff on your paint? If it is scuffs- 90% of it will clean up with the right compound/polish.
Joe

[2K3 MSP]

That's the bumper...It's just shitty stock paint.
Look at it this way, you can take it to any qualified body shop that can repaint the entire rear bumper and make it look like the rest of the car, OR take it to a VERY, VERY qualified shop, that can blend it. If you don't think it's possible for a body shop to blend Spicy orange, take a look at my car. I had the front end repainted and they blended into my passenger side door. It's impossible to tell where it blends. Either way, you'll end up paying about the same. Good Luck.

[spoolboy]

yeah it's scraped right down to the bumper, there's no buffin those things out. Thanks for all the help guys, I'm going to try to get to the dealership tommorow for an estimate. Hopefully they got a tail light in stock, I really don't wanna drive it looking like that for too long.

[unwound]

it's gonna cost ya some dough to get it done right. call your
insurance co and ask them what dealership or bodyshop they
recommend/deal with. to clarify, i am not telling you to put in a
claim, just ask them if they have a recommended shop in your
area.

also do what Joe recommended and get some polishing compound
to try to remove some of the black if it is a scuf mark.

good luck spool

[kwiktsi]

Originally posted by spoolboy
yeah it's scraped right down to the bumper, there's no buffin those things out. Thanks for all the help guys, I'm going to try to get to the dealership tommorow for an estimate. Hopefully they got a tail light in stock, I really don't wanna drive it looking like that for too long.

Man, that sucks. I couldn't tell for sure from the pic. I was getting my hope up for ya :).
Joe

[Ryan]

yo wtf was u thinking man i always double check everything.. ! oh well shit happens.. least ur first mistake is over with.. hopefully no more.

[SpicyRay]

the paint ground off is one thing, but was the bumper actually ground into also, so that it too would need repair? anyway, i suggest a very very very good body shop that really knows what to do. remember, you get what you pay for.

[chinkysuavo]

Hey sorry to hear that bro, if it makes you feel any better, I got a dent on my fender today. *sigh* the bottomless $$$ pit that is the MSP...

[MazdaspeedZOOM]

Ok this will make you feel better, always know it could be worse. This was my car after it was broken into.

http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/5342/p/375588_8538226388523328855_vl.jpg
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[Newf]

:(

sniff sniff

[unwrittenLaw]

That blows..did your alarm go off or did they disable it?

[murdock_]

Originally posted by Aaron
that really sucks well i have 2 nice size cracks in my windshield it BLOWS!!!!
you can get that replaced free if u have good insurance :)

[MazdaspeedZOOM]

Originally posted by unwrittenLaw
That blows..did your alarm go off or did they disable it?

I assume that the alarm went off but that's why there's holes in my grill is that the thief gouged out the horn so it didn't sound. Oh well all is fixed now, worked it out with my dealership, whose fault it was anyway and now I'm driving an 03.5 and am much happier.

[Mazdaspeed1]

mazdaspeedzoom--- that really sux.. i had that happen to me in my old car.. busted out my window with a huge block.. took my 750$ stereo.. then the jackass tried to take my tail lights, but i guess they weren't smart enough to pop the trunk. they tried prying them out with a screw driver.. insurance paid for all of it besided my 100$ comprehensive deductible.. how did you work this out with the dealership? was it there when it got broken into?

[MazdaspeedZOOM]

Originally posted by Mazdaspeed1
mazdaspeedzoom--- that really sux.. i had that happen to me in my old car.. busted out my window with a huge block.. took my 750$ stereo.. then the jackass tried to take my tail lights, but i guess they weren't smart enough to pop the trunk. they tried prying them out with a screw driver.. insurance paid for all of it besided my 100$ comprehensive deductible.. how did you work this out with the dealership? was it there when it got broken into?

The car was sitting on there lot when it happened, it wasn;t even a month old and I had taken it in for them to fix a coolant leak. Well it was broken into over night and the radio was taken. It took them 3 weeks to fix most of it and when I got it back it still wasn't how it should have looked. Enough bitching involved from my part, they worked out a deal were I could use it as a trade in towards the new one and, presto I now have a new 03.5.

[Mazdaspeed1]

that's cool that you got a new car though.. 2 yellow msp's at the dealership in my town got broken into.. they stole the whole stereo system out of both. i wonder if they know the stereos won't work though.. lol they have that security code thing on them. oh well.

[Dr.Sound]

the security code is not activated if it's a new car.
u have to activate it yourself once you buy it.............

[Mazdaspeed1]

oh really?? well the dealership said it was already activated... how do you activate it then??