Matte black paint to match/blend Allroad cladding?

[theSaint024]

The wife drove my car exactly twice in 2015. Second time she scrapes the cladding against our garage door entrance. Black cladding + white garage door trim = no bueno. Anyway, could have been much worse. Now the cherry allroad is a little tainted in appearance. Without replacing the cladding which seems a bit extreme given the damage, I'd like to just touch up the parts that have scraped. Attached pics show the limited damage, iphone & low light. First pic was initial look, second after I scraped and cleaned. I am just looking to reasonably match the paint. It doesn't need to be perfect since there is slight surface damage and it won't look perfect anyway due to difference in depth. Anyone try to touch up cladding? Any other reasonable recommendations to rectify this terrible situation? I've considered going to a body shop to see if they can fill/minimize the damage but think they wouldn't even try given the minimal damage and seeing that I was probably too anal for them. Or I just live with this perpetually "dirty" look.

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[ToddBrunswick]

The wife drove my car exactly twice in 2015. Second time she scrapes the cladding against our garage door entrance. Black cladding + white garage door trim = no bueno. Anyway, could have been much worse. Now the cherry allroad is a little tainted in appearance. Without replacing the cladding which seems a bit extreme given the damage, I'd like to just touch up the parts that have scraped. Attached pics show the limited damage, iphone & low light. First pic was initial look, second after I scraped and cleaned. I am just looking to reasonably match the paint. It doesn't need to be perfect since there is slight surface damage and it won't look perfect anyway due to difference in depth. Anyone try to touch up cladding? Any other reasonable recommendations to rectify this terrible situation? I've considered going to a body shop to see if they can fill/minimize the damage but think they wouldn't even try given the minimal damage and seeing that I was probably too anal for them. Or I just live with this perpetually "dirty" look.

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Would you consider divorce a reasonable recommendation?

[theSaint024]

Would you consider divorce a reasonable recommendation?

I'm sure you can empathize, I was pretty piiiiiiisssed. This 2013 has not a single ding on it, really. A friend of a friend almost got a divorce over wife damaging his 911. These are serious matters, so that is a reasonable recommendation. Unfortunately that doesn't fix the problem. She felt pretty bad and actually insisted on getting all the cladding replaced, front right and the entire front section. I can't justify that value trade-off, even though I know the car will never see damage there again.

[VAZSTEVEN]

I'm sure you can empathize, I was pretty piiiiiiisssed. This 2013 has not a single ding on it, really. A friend of a friend almost got a divorce over wife damaging his 911. These are serious matters, so that is a reasonable recommendation. Unfortunately that doesn't fix the problem. She felt pretty bad and actually insisted on getting all the cladding replaced, front right and the entire front section. I can't justify that value trade-off, even though I know the car will never see damage there again.

so get new cladding with what I assume is your money, right? lol

[jmeenach]

Would you consider divorce a reasonable recommendation?

Since they'll be splitting up EVERYTHING in this scenario, I call dibs on the AR when it goes on the market

[ToddBrunswick]

Since they'll be splitting up EVERYTHING in this scenario, I call dibs on the AR when it goes on the market

damn community property state. Lucky for you, the legal concept of "dibs" is much stronger than community property.

[jfo]

The wife drove my car exactly twice in 2015. Second time she scrapes the cladding against our garage door entrance. Black cladding + white garage door trim = no bueno. Anyway, could have been much worse. Now the cherry allroad is a little tainted in appearance. Without replacing the cladding which seems a bit extreme given the damage, I'd like to just touch up the parts that have scraped. Attached pics show the limited damage, iphone & low light. First pic was initial look, second after I scraped and cleaned. I am just looking to reasonably match the paint. It doesn't need to be perfect since there is slight surface damage and it won't look perfect anyway due to difference in depth. Anyone try to touch up cladding? Any other reasonable recommendations to rectify this terrible situation? I've considered going to a body shop to see if they can fill/minimize the damage but think they wouldn't even try given the minimal damage and seeing that I was probably too anal for them. Or I just live with this perpetually "dirty" look.

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You could try Wurth Bumper-Trim paint. It's a matte black very similar to the finish on our dash plastic pieces. I used it on my screen surround. SEM also makes similar bumper paint. I painted my valence several years ago with their charcoal bumper coater and it still looks new.

[Liquid Smoke]

use Plasti Dip. get a can of the matte black from Home Depot, Pep Boys, Lowes, etc., it's only like $7 and 1-2 cans should be enough for all 4 claddings, so you can have them all match and will just protect the other one's too. should be a pretty quick job, easy to maintain, clean etc.

check out dipyourcar.com you can see some videos and instructions there if you want, but it's very user friendly and not permanent, peels off so no worries if you mess up or need to redo.

[theSaint024]

You could try Wurth Bumper-Trim paint. It's a matte black very similar to the finish on our dash plastic pieces. I used it on my screen surround. SEM also makes similar bumper paint. I painted my valence several years ago with their charcoal bumper coater and it still looks new.

Thanks. On the possibility list. I preferred a pen or small brush application for such a small area. Spraying could be a little trickier, but I'll consider if no other answers come through. It can always be done with some effort.

use Plasti Dip. get a can of the matte black from Home Depot, Pep Boys, Lowes, etc., it's only like $7 and 1-2 cans should be enough for all 4 claddings, so you can have them all match and will just protect the other one's too. should be a pretty quick job, easy to maintain, clean etc.

I thought of this, but only for a small area. I wasn't really looking to dip all of the cladding for those small scratches on one. Like I said, with the surface scratches, it'll never look perfect because of the "new texture" my wife gave them. Just want to fill in with similar color for now.

[Liquid Smoke]

ah i see, didn't realize the 'after' picture. i guess you can maybe try some "Mother's Back to Black", it's made for black plastic/rubber trim, and it's kind of like shoe polish, it will at least darken it i'd think and make it look uniform, it's like a black tinted wax/tire shine for moldings and trim. of course you'd have to reapply every few months or so to keep it fresh looking, but shouldnt take more than a few minutes to do them all. but im not sure how dark it will get but at least you can keep them protected from UV, etc.

also you may want to check this black tire shine from Turtle Wax i believe, forgot the name but its supposed to be like a gel/spray on tire shine which is actually black tinted and is very strong, it's meant to last months or something, and i've heard it doesnt come off so easy, so that may be a semi-permanent type thing.

but if you wanted to permanently touch up really the only way i can think of, without having a weird mismatched black spot, is to repaint the whole piece, and plastidip would make that the cheapest and easiest if you wanted to go that route, could probably protect them from future garage door encounters lol.

[theSaint024]

but if you wanted to permanently touch up really the only way i can think of, without having a weird mismatched black spot, is to repaint the whole piece, and plastidip would make that the cheapest and easiest if you wanted to go that route, could probably protect them from future garage door encounters lol.

I might go this route eventually depending on how my new idea works out... It occurred to me to fill in with a sharpie. I tested a little section down low and realized that the sharpie is way too black for this. So I ordered a dark gray sharpie to see how that looks. If still too dark, going to get the slate gray. I will update if anything interesting comes of this. It sounds like no one here has needed to do this type of fix. Thanks for the suggestions, which I might still have to go back to.

[jmeenach]

I might go this route eventually depending on how my new idea works out... It occurred to me to fill in with a sharpie. I tested a little section down low and realized that the sharpie is way too black for this. So I ordered a dark gray sharpie to see how that looks. If still too dark, going to get the slate gray. I will update if anything interesting comes of this. It sounds like no one here has needed to do this type of fix. Thanks for the suggestions, which I might still have to go back to.

Hopefully the dark grey helps. I think it should at least do something to cover it up.

[KFizz]

I pull the car in and out of the garage for my gf if she needs to use it, for exactly this reason.

[AllroadCorbin]

My gf isn't allowed to drive my car unless it's an emergency.


But if it helps I've had to repaint the plastic cladding twice on my car because people like to hit me in parking lots. The plastic is a painted piece so it's easily fixed by a body shop

[theSaint024]

Good to know. I will likely take it to a shop that if my sharpie experiment turns out like shit - quite possible. I assume this is in the couple hundred dollar range? My wife drove the AR exactly twice in 2015. First time I was drunk and she happened to be with me. I don't regularly get drunk with my car, I plan ahead. This second time, she was waiting for her new car, so she was in between and had plans that day. Took for granted that she could actually park in the garage without incident, lesson learned - park the car for her. She's pretty much terrified of driving my car because of my irrational love of the car and tender care I give it. She never asks to drive it. From her perspective, it wouldn't be fun because she'd have to park it way in the back of the parking lot away from everyone else, because that's what I do. If it's holiday season and parking next to others is unavoidable, I take her car.

[AllroadCorbin]

That's really funny... My gf gets so pissed that I park way out in lots because she's lazy and hates walking further than needed. Yesterday I decided not to be anal at a chipotle and I parked with everybody else for once... I came out and watched some f*cker that couldn't speak English open the door of his Camry right into mine. No damage but I called him out on it and promised myself never again. Never haha

[theSaint024]

I finally got around to cleaning and fixing the little issue. Lots of rain out here lately. Doesn't look too bad now. I know it's there but it's acceptable. For those of you with darker car/lighter cladding, I would think the light grey sharpie would blend best. For me, the dark was just about right.