How to Fix Deep Car Scratches on Car Door

Cars are very important in mans life. Sometimes to a man his second priority after his house. But cars are very delicate in case getting scratches. The very common and annoying part that very often gets a scratch is your car door.

You should not delay much if you find any scratch on your car. Because any scratch may end up spreading more into the car surface and harming the in the long run.

Basic Steps of How to Fix Deep Car Scratches on Car Door

Steps should be followed to fix scratches on Car Door permanently. You should follow four basic steps to fix the scratches on your car permanently. The steps are given bellow :

1. Observe and calculate the victim area

You should start your work with observing the victim area and calculating the position of the scratch. It will be very easy to repair if the basic colors are black,white or grey.

But it will take a lot of your toil if it is one those other kinds of colour serieses. But it’s impossible. You will be very glad to know that no matter which colour paint your car has you car can be fixed.

To remove the scratches you will have follow these step very carefully. Small nicks and scratches are easy cheese to repair with new gadgets of today. But it’s the deep scratches that we are talking about that needs a lot of work to fix.

To fix deep scratches on your car door will like doing a surgery. One thing you need to remember is that fixing a deep scratch on your car door is not a child’s play. Do not try to act cool by following “Do It Yourself” kind of slogans. You definitely have to have some idea about fixing car problems before doing this.

2. Gadgets and Tools for removing deep scratches on the car door

• Pain matching the cars colour
• Prep Solvent
• Sandpaper (Wet)
• Prep Pen (Spot standing pen)
• Primer
• School Eraser (Rubber)
• Cutting – Rubbing compound
• Cloth (Free of Lint)
• Car polisher ( Dual-action)

3. Preparing and processing the paint

Before applying the paint there goes the process of preparing the surface. You should never use solvents to wash the car. First wash the place with some good quality car wash. By this all the polluting contaminants will be removed from the surface.

After the rinsing you should give the car a day to dry. Then observe the scratch again and find that is the scratch normal or has any edges that are loose or sharpe should be fixed first. You can easily fix these problems with any small and sharpe instrument like toothpick.

Before using the paint you should spray paint-prep spray. Then comes wiping the scratch for making the scratched place suitable for resolving the paint. Sand pen comes very hand for making the scratch paint friendly and shrinking the edges around it.

You don’t have to be an expert in this part rather have to use the pen again and again until the results. End this part cleaning with the prep solvent again and then wipe it with a towel.

You have to use a primer before using the painting. In order to use it you both make mixture or can use a ready-made one. Use it with a delicate tool.

This stage ends with the painting part. Now you will use the paint coating over scratch. Sometimes one coat of paint is not enough because of the scratch and primer. But never go any more than two layers of paint.

4. Touch-ups

Touch ups are very important because it will make sure that the painted are gets properly matched with the car. Otherwise your car will look very peculiar.

Use a sanding block to hold the sand paper for the final touch ups. Make sure the paper is wet. But for the touch up and leveling the scratch you need a dry paper.

Keep the place wet during the process. Then use a lint cloth to make the place dry. And look at paint properly and find it okay or not. If it’s okay then your work was successful. The whole process will end with cleansing the polishing cloth. Try two or three rounds of cleaning for it.

Hacks that will hide and fix deep scratches on your car door

• New gadgets are very useful in order to fix the scratches. Modern science has already Marketed new pens and filler that very useful in removing any major dents or scratches to zero.
• You can use duct tape to cover the scratches. Make sure the tape matches with the shade of your car. One thing you should keep in mind that it will not last long. And should not be used in big scratches.
• Paint spray or touch up paint is very much useful. For moderate and small scratches it quite useful but you cannot relay on it as a final solution.
• Some people turn the scratches on their car door in arts. All you will is your artistic taste and hand and imagination. By this you can make something beautiful out of something annoying.

Wrap Up
Here step by step guide given for fixing the scratches on your car door are given. With your little knowledge of car fixing and this guide you can fix the scratches very easily in your house.

You don’t have to go to any mechanic for fixing this problem. You should not waste any time rather go and start fixing your car following these steps.