Car keyed - help!

HeidiHeidi

Some ****er keyed the whole side of my car yesterday :mad:

Well, most of it - the driver's door and the rear wing panel (it's a two-door).

Now, it's far from a new car, and it has a fair few dings and scratches in it already (not put there by me, might I add! My workplace has a very challenging layout in the carpark, which seems to be beyond a lot of the users to navigate without thinking they're at the dodgems).

But this is a deep, long, gash in the side. And while I'm not precious about the car particularly, I'd prefer not to have a great big rust stripe there in a year or two's time.

I can only imagine how much a respray job would cost, so really don't want to go down that road.

I'll talk to the garage I use next week to see what they suggest, but is there a cheap and cheerful solution out there that I could maybe do myself? I'd use a thick black marker, only I suspect that wouldn't have much water-repellent qualities.....

lollsangel

Well if youre not too worried about the colour being slightly off you could get a primer and your car colour in the likes of halfords?

AndonHandon

Saliva eats rust so you will be able to paint over it. When this happened to me and I was told of the saliva treatment I thought it was a joke. But what you do is collect a coleman's mustard sized jar of saliva and use a paint brush to apply it to the tarnished part of the car. 14 treatments in 6 months should do it, then you can just paint over it.

HeidiHeidi

AndonHandon wrote: »

Saliva eats rust so you will be able to paint over it. When this happened to me and I was told of the saliva treatment I thought it was a joke. But what you do is collect a coleman's mustard sized jar of saliva and use a paint brush to apply it to the tarnished part of the car. 14 treatments in 6 months should do it, then you can just paint over it.

You'll have quite a job to convince me that this isn't a wind-up :eek:

Anyway, no rust yet, it only happened yesterday, so I'm looking more for a preventative measure.

The car is black, so might look at just getting some touch-up paint as suggested and see how that looks. Worst case scenario is I wind up getting the spray job done on insurance anyway.

AndonHandon

While not as effective as the saliva treatment you could paint it to match the colour of the rust.

HeidiHeidi

AndonHandon wrote: »

While not as effective as the saliva treatment you could paint it to match the colour of the rust.

The whole car

Having waited for however long it takes to rust in the first place

Thanks for the most useful suggestions!

ARGINITE

Just get some touch up paint and paint in the scratch.
It won't look perfect but it also won't rust.