glex4

So, my SC400 Diamond White Pearl has been SITTING on my driveway for the past 4 months due to the brutal NY winter this year. Yesterday, I was walking around the car and lo and behold I see a freaking "divot" (think golfing off a tee) in my driver side door. The underneath grayish (metal?) was exposed. It looks like either an *ahole* threw a rock at my car out of jealousy or that one of those commercial vehicles went to fast and kicked up a rock that somewhat went sideways and smashed into the door. I actually found the rock, I believe. Our house is a corner house.

So, I went the OEM touch up paint route and painted it twice (2 layers of coating) with touch up paint 040 (051 sparkle paint sucks so I am skipping that), which is the base coat. Basically, I painted inside the circle shaped hole.

My question is, if I keep layering more touch up paint upon more touch up paint, will the divot actually look like it's starting to fill, or should I not waste my time and leave it with 2 coats only? I want to do it myself without using Dr. ColorChip or anything similar. It looks fairly decent now after 2 coats (much better than a divot grey hole in my car). It looked like I was riding with 50 cent and someone shot my car with a BB gun or something.

Please advise.

mecheng10

paint wont be able to fill the hole sorry
you would need to 1)pull it. you might get lucky with one of those cheap dent pullers
2)bondo and sand it then paint it
3)get a new door hahaha
4)take it to a body shop. it would be around 500 bucks to fix. they would probably just bang it out (depending on where the dent on the door is) or they would use bondo hahaha

glex4

Oh, it's not really a dent or ding. It's basically a deep chip, think as if someone skipped a rock off your car and it exposed the underlying metal. I don't think you can pull a chip out. Hmm..I did search a lot today on how to repair chips. Thanks though.

lexusgirl2

The best way to fix a dent in a car, is to fill it with some bondo, sand it down to where its even with the body, then paint over it. If your good at sanding, it will look like nothing ever happened. Done this several times to my sc400. Can't even tell there was a scratch!

glex4

Yes, but this is not a dent lol.

1JZPWRD

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Post a picture of it, so we can recommend more specifics on it.

mecheng10

^^
+1
we need pictures

Shrugy

iTrader: (12)

You can look at Paintless dent removal, They stick a rod in the window seal, It cost 200$ to do my dads whole car, and all the dents were removed. I would at least look into this option.

SC400slide

iTrader: (11)

You can do the paintless dent removal option but whatever you do, AVOID Bondo!

mikef

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you can hire someone to come out to pop that big dent out for sure, with no bondo

oldManTan

ppl don't seem to get that it's not a dent lol. there's a piece of paint missing and the underlying metal is showing. just sand the surrounding area so u dont have any sharp edges, fill with bondo, sand, filler primer, sand, and then paint. ur done. shud cost u like 40 bucks maybe more if you get the paint matched from a paint shop. i'm currently restoring my entire body and i have a fist sized hole in my quarter panel by the wheel where it rusted out. if you don't wanna bondo use fiberglass cloth, its harder, will last longer, but if it's just a ding of missing paint then bondo will be fine.

SC400slide

iTrader: (11)

I will NEVER use bondo on any of my cars...especially a Lexus, just repair it correctly or don't at all.

glex4

I heard bad things about bondo too. I will try to get pics soon! Thanks all.

oldManTan

wth is wrong with bondo? how else do you repair a freakin paint chip? what is underneath the paint of a stock car? a filler, what is bondo? a filler.

turbodremz

iTrader: (18)

If the dent is small enough, you might get away with using dry ice. Read/watch about it before you bash the though, I have done this personally and it works great.

If its too deep, get your sander, filler/fiberglass, primer and paint ready.