Minor accident

TacticalDactical · August 7, 2015

Sort of scraped the side of my truck last week. Small dent, big scrape and scratch down to the metal. Advice? My mom told me to just fill it in with a magic marker and call it a day.

SnakeEyeSS · August 7, 2015

Probably not worth the cost to fix($500 I'd bet), get a perfect match touch up paint, fill in the scratch as smooth as possible, then do a minor compound(several brands that work by hand(like meguiars ultimate compound), light enough that you wont damage the paint unless you do something stupid, then polish. That will smooth over the touch up so the shine matches the surrounding area. You'll still see it but wont stand out as much.

j-ten-ner · August 7, 2015

(http://www.semashow.com/sites/default/files/press/9536/3dc_15_silverado_f34-2.jpg)

so long

j-ten-ner

GPGuy · August 7, 2015

^^^ What he posted.

TacticalDactical · August 7, 2015

That put a smile on my face. I don't know if a forty year old father of three could pull that off. Looks cool though. Probably just do the touch up paint and compound. But I'll keep that cladding in mind.

white1500 · August 7, 2015

Salvaged title now?

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00Silverado4x4 · August 7, 2015

Me personally (as I have been through the same), clean it up, touch it up if it is deep, and treat as a beauty mark. By time my old truck was wrecked it had bumps and scratches all over it. I just touch up the bad ones (i.e. down to metal). The rest I chaulked up to being a truck being used as a truck.

TacticalDactical · August 7, 2015

Yeah it's a truck. Being used as a truck. Not gonna drive myself crazy over it.

Ryan698 · August 10, 2015

I just got back into this is the before pictures

You can see the hard scratching costed me 60 bucks and a case of beer to my friend who is a painter at gm and took him few hours he buffed it wet sanded it and used some black touch up paint on it because I also had it down to metal in some chips here's the after can hardly tell when looking up real close

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