Small dint, and chipped paint.

[alfy]

Someone reversed back into my VT series 2 Commodore the other day, and the tow ball left a perfect circle dent. Not too bad, and should be easily knocked back out, but the worse part is that the paint has chipped off and peeled a little. About 5x7cm on the front bumper.

What is my course of action to repair this? Mind you, I don't want to spend a lot of money to get the whole front resprayed, I'm thinking of just getting touch up paint. Do places like Supercheap and AutoBarn do this? Colour match and then give you some paint?

Cheers for any help.

[alfy]

Or is my best bet to go to a Holden service dealer, and get them to colour match my paint, and give me the paint?

[neet_wagon]

What colour is it?
A 50mmx70mm square area is rather large to blend with a touch-up can, especially on difficult colours.

[alfy]

What colour is it?
A 50mmx70mm square area is rather large to blend with a touch-up can, especially on difficult colours.

I think it is British Racing Green, like a dark green.

[neet_wagon]

You might get away with it.
If you take the paint code to autobarn or a panel'n'paint kind of shop, they can mix the colour up for you into a spraycan....

[alfy]

If it is too big to use that, what other options do I have?

[neet_wagon]

If you can't cover it with a spraycan, either source a bumper the same colour from a wreckers, or get a panel shop to fix it (they will most likely just source a bumper anyway)

[alfy]

If you can't cover it with a spraycan, either source a bumper the same colour from a wreckers, or get a panel shop to fix it (they will most likely just source a bumper anyway)

I'm guessing this would be quite expensive? Any estimate guess?

[neet_wagon]

a bumper? 100 bucks i suppose

***panel beaters on the other hand would chrge three or four times that

[alfy]

If you take the paint code

also, where would I find the paint code?

[jamiev90]

under your bonnet mate, mine is located in the bottom right corner (if you were facing looking into your engine bay) a little silver plate and one of the lines says "Paint Code" mine has Paint Code F124 (or F129 i forget :P)

[s_ikari2015]

Get a quote from a local panel n paint mob, then ask "how much for a cashie"?

It's small and is likely they'll do it. I had a rear bumper scratch completely repaired for a carton of Carlton Lights!!! The job lasted longer than the spoiler I had done by another mob for three times the cost!

[jay_wr8]

dont get your colour match off the code under the bonnet, it will be a different colour, take your fuel cap off and take it to a proper automotive paint shop and get them to match it, I'd get a quote first from a panel beater because chances are your touch up will start flaking after a while and your back to square one

[pablo]

Get one of those mobile dent touch up blokes to give a quote. The car yards use them to do their touch ups. They mix the paint themselves on site to do a colour match and they will do the job in your drive and a bit cheaper than a paint and panel shop.

[jay_wr8]

Good idea, do that