Cleaned my car this weekend and found a VERY small scratch on one of my doors. Think it may have been a rock. You can't even see it unless you look at it at a very small angle, but it is still there. Just wondering if there is anything I can do to try and get it out. My only concern is that I can feel it with my fingernail, leading me to believe that there is nothing I can do about it. Allready tried some rubbing compund and that didn't work. Car is silver. Thanks for any help.

 

If it's down then you can't rub it up-if you can feel it upwards you can buff it out...

If it makes you feel better my car came with a minor scratch on the chrome gas door-dealer replace...and a small surface scratch on the back bumper- I have yet to resolve this problem...


we can choose where we park are cars and control our own bodies-not the jerks around us-same is true with the environment...


there is a bright side-the 1st scratch is always the worst feeling..the anxiety usually decreases after that....2nd thing you got going for you....it's silver....it's not as bad as black car hell. None the less, I feel for ya-we all go down that road sooner or later


Good luck

 

Yeah, I know, at least this first scratch was an easy one and nothing big. On my last car the first thing I had happen to it was a few nicks on the hood from rocks and a huge scrape on the front bumper when I bottomed out pulling into a parking lot. It was a white car so the nicks were black where the paint had completely been removed and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Thanks for the help.

 

Oh I forgot to mention that Mazda mailed me touch up paint with my yellow 3 2004....I don't know if they will do the same again with these cars. Might be worth the inquiry.

 

my parent's Alero is the worst.....its Maroon paint, and its COVERED with small white dots, on the front and back...
and trust me....it stands out like a sore thumb....

 

What's wrong w/ touch-up paint? I bought my wife some for her Lincoln (made a nice stocking stuffer). It has two applicators - a brush and a pen. The pen works wicked good for filling in tiny scratches. I'm not sure if Mazda offers that or not. GOOD LUCK!

 

Anyone here ever tried Langka?

 

i think i read somewhere that you can buy those pen/brush combo touch up paints to match your car colour exactly...
may have been in like a Pep boys type shop in the states...
you just send them your paint colour and they make you a pen or something like it

 

Yah, i've got my 3 lowerd bout 1.2 inches (nothing major but gets rid of that huge fender/tire gap) and i've bottomed out the front a couple times and i've got a few major scratches on the front bumper. I dont think the touch up paint will help though but i'm not concerned all that much. It's hard to see n e ways unless u get down and look at it.Sides...I'm sure i'll bottom out again sometime so why bother lol with all the pot holes and speed bumps around here =/ o well. Hope the touch up paint/pen help ya man. I have used the dealer touch up paint on a small scratch by my passensger door and it worked a lot better than i was expecting. I have titanium grey paint by the way.