Someone keyed my mk3 Anni!!!! Help!!

[Purpleanni]

Hi, some silly little idiot has decided to key the bonnet and driverside of my car. Does anyone have any advise on how to get the scratches out?? I have hand polished it but most of it is still there, not sure if machine polishing it is a good idea or not? Please leave some advice!! Thanx in advance

[dragonfly]

How deep is the scratch?

[Purpleanni]

It's pretty deep, defiantly through to the primer in some places but don't think it's down to the metal :/

[Thom89]

If its through to the primer, then there is nothing you can do, other than touch up the scratch or have the panel repainted... and avoid "Chips away"

Thom

[Purpleanni]

Gutted :/ I really didn't want to have to respray it, seems a shame on such an original car. Thanks for the help

[northeast_gti-t]

If its through to the primer, then there is nothing you can do, other than touch up the scratch or have the panel repainted... and avoid "Chips away"

Thom

Pretty much as thom suggests

[Purpleanni]

Would touching up the scratch /repainting be a bad idea as far as the cars origenality? Or an I better to just do it and hope its not too obvious that its been painted?

[northeast_gti-t]

Would touching up the scratch /repainting be a bad idea as far as the cars origenality? Or an I better to just do it and hope its not too obvious that its been painted?

As long as the touch in is done carefully it should be okay but personally i would be more inclined to paint most of the panel so the better chance of a slight better paint match don't expect to get an exact match if you do it yourself with spray cans etc the paint on mk3's is much older now  a decent body shop will nine times out of ten get a far better match.

[Purpleanni]

I was thinking about getting specialist to price doing the panels for me, I know it will cost a fortune but I'd rather have it done as close as possible if I do respray it