Originally Posted by Nightrider
If I added all the scratches together they'd be the lengh of the car. I was at a garden center and when I came out it looked like some *&^&* head pulled a wagon of bushes against the side of the car. Most are about 4 to 9 inches(about a dozen) but I can see white paint and I catch my finger nail. This has not been my lucky car. Nailed a deer in 2007 and got side swped by a truck backing down my street in Sept.
INFERNO are those pens on that website any good for temporay touch up (til Spring) also do they have an air temperature requirement for use?
Nightrider,
Not sure what you mean by white paint? If the scratches are through your clearcoat and base coat I think you would see grey primer or bare metal which would indicate need to repaint. But, if the scratches are actually scuffs in the clearcoat they would appear to be white. The reason I ask is that if someone dragged a bush against the car it would most likely scuff or scratch the clearcoat without completely penetrating, unless of course it was a cactus or something with needlelike branches. If you have scuffs or scratches that are contained within the clearcoat, you can buff them out nicely using a clay bar and/or compound. Also, if they are scratches through the clearcoat, I would not recommend using a touch up paint kit to repair the scratches due to their size. The touch up kits don't match color perfectly, and they really aren't intended for anything more than paint chips. A do-it-yourself touch up kit on large scratches may actually look worse than doing nothing.