Paint Blemish/Poor respray? Help!

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Hi all,

As you can see in the images i have a weird patch of paintwork thats on the passenger door. There is a long key scratch on there and so part of me thought it might be the old WD40 trick when I collected the car. However, after a few months and weekly (sometimes twice weekly) washing, its going nowhere. Does anyone have any clue what it might be? I just want it gone as its ruining the look of a tidy car.

Thanks in advance,


Will

 

[Stay Puft]

Colour match looks off too?

 

[Louis]

Bad smart repair or similar? Try giving it a full decon and machine polish.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Yeah it does look really bad in this picture. Its spot on in person....well as good as they usually are. Its because 1 panel is metal and 1 (the wing) are plastic. I always thought it was a badly painted door but having now been on my 2nd silver 182, I can confirm theyre like that lol

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Bad smart repair or similar? Try giving it a full decon and machine polish.

Its had fallout remover on it twice from memory. I dont believe I have clayed this section yet but thats due as soon as i can. Ill give that a shot. The car is also going to get a full machine over the winter so ill pay attention to that spot. Ill be using maguiars ultimate polish...that should be up to the task?

 

[Louis]

Its had fallout remover on it twice from memory. I dont believe I have clayed this section yet but thats due as soon as i can. Ill give that a shot. The car is also going to get a full machine over the winter so ill pay attention to that spot. Ill be using maguiars ultimate polish...that should be up to the task?

I like the Menzerna stuff but i'm no expert! Could also try a light wet-sand but leave that until last IMHO.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

I like the Menzerna stuff but i'm no expert! Could also try a light wet-sand but leave that until last IMHO.

I have quite a plethora of stuff to be honest as i bought my DA as a job lot from a friend. He went and bought a rupes and wanted all their compounds with it.

The spray bit looks like someone has gone at it with some spray paint of a similar colour. Very odd thing to do. Why on earth would you just spray a panel to fill a scratch in.....

 

[Daniel]

That’s a burn. Someone has tried too hard with a machine polisher to get that scratch out and burnt the paint.
Needs a repaint unfortunately.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah as above. Pissing in the wind trying anything else.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Oh that sucks! Looks like its here to stay then! At that size, it must have been one of those Ebay 'scratch repair' 'kits'. Thanks to all.

 

[Louis]

Its worth wetsanding to try remove it surely? Nothing to lose at this stage.

 

[1985michael182]

Its burnt though the laquer and base coat down to another layer of laquer. So its definitely been painted in the past.

At first glance it looked like a repair that had bled through the paint or not enough base coat to cover the repair but its 99% a burn mark. Get it resprayed. It wont break the bank