need help with scrape/scratch
 

aaarrrghh!!!!

i scraped my car on a persons bumper when i was parking and i dont know what to do. can i just use touch up paint or is there some solution that wont cost too much? please please please help me

Ouch, looks pretty big. Cheapest solution is a bodyshop if you want it repainted.

If you want to replace it, you might get lucky with someone selling their bumper on here or ebay for cheap. Or you can look on the brightside and start saving up for the Mazda Speed front kit.

Or you can try doing it yourself. But results will vary based on your materials and technique.

Get some touchup paint and some fine grain 250 grain or higher sandpaper. Sand down the rough parts of the big scratch. Carefully fill in the scratch with a very fine paintbrush in a single smooth layer. Keep adding layers until the scratch is filled in completely. This will take a while. Then let it dry for about 2 days and get some really really fine sandpaper 1000+ grain, the finer the better. Then just sand it down to be smooth.

The other rashes around the big marks might be able to be taken care of with some heavy duty rubbing compound and an orbial buffer, but they look pretty deep even if it does look nice you will have probably taken a lot of the clearcoat off.

Take it to a bodyshop, definitly. Also, if you do, check your mileage when you drop it off. Because someone took mine for a 50 mile excursion and I chewed them out for it but they still denied it. I had a similar scrape accompanied by a couple of large dents and they charged me 680$. Hope you can get a better deal then that though.

Good luck.

thanks for the help im gonna go to a body shop to get it done but the MS front is lookin pretty good too.

Ouch, that looks bad. Bodyshop for sure.

definitely body shop time.

Just make sure you do some online research for the cheapest place to buy an MS bumper.

IF paintshop > then MS bumper.... well, you know the rest.

Bodyshop definitely, its almost impossible to match colour and the paint won't stick as good. That's what I was told by a mazda authorised bodyshop, they even insist I leave it alone unless I do a full bumper.

Or If you want to be super cheap, use a black paint pen or even a sharpie. I've done that and it works really well. Only can see scratch when looking at it from certain angle.

Well, if you were ever wanting to do an after market front bumper now's the time!
Looks pretty bad. I don't think you're going to get out of this one cheap.

ms kit timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

if you want a cheap solution.... get a license plate remounting kit :D

I sure hope that you didn't scrape their car and just leave the scene.

the guy was there and it was a truck. just scraped on his bumper so he said no big deal

That's good, Someone hit my front bumper a while back and dented it in pretty bad, fortunately I was able to knock it back out without much damage to the paint. They just hit it and left. Unfortunately I was not there to witness this.

yeah if someone hit me and just left would be pretty pissed , so i wouldnt do it to someone else

wow, its been over two months. what'd you end up doing?

i chose the lazy route and try to never look at that side.

:(

ive been on the fence on whether to get a kit or not. i really want a MS one but there so expensive and ive heard so many bad things about replicas that im afraid of going that way too. so i dont want to pay to get this fixed if im gonna get a kit.