My rear spoiler got scratched by our garage door a few times. They're minor scratches, but they're still a few four inch white lines in the spoiler. Can these scratches be repaired? I was thinking I could remove the spoiler and take it to one of those vinyl wrap shops, or maybe fill in the cracks with black touch up paint. Or I could just buy a new spoiler. Suggestions?
touch up paint. Nobody will really see it.....except for yourself. Wait a few years when it starts to fade....then repaint the entire thing
I managed to scratch my rear spoiler from my garage door within less than a week of owning my car. I used a black sharpie pen to color it in. From a distance, no one can tell it's there. I can only see it because I know where the scratch happened.
i've scratched mine on the garage door opener a few times as well, but the pip seems to be kind of a smoked plastic spoiler, is it just black paint?
Is it a metal rod on the garage door that hits? Just for next time, wrap it with some foam pipe insulation or similar: cushion the blow at least. I've derailed our door more times than I care to remember, lol. I used a gloss black touch up bottle-and-brush by Dupli-Color, NG SF 100 UNIVERSAL BLACK. Plus, rubbed it out a bit with pumice first, just locally on the worst parts. All the 3rd gen's are that solid gloss black plastic, but gloss black doesn't look half bad. Well, except my ham-fisted paint technique doesn't hold up to close scrutiny.
Ok, it's Black Sharpie pen for the win! I'll give this a try and see how it comes out. It can survive a car wash?
So far so good with mine. I've washed the car ~5 times or so since the incident and I haven't noticed any fading yet.
