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If you want to find out how to repair scratches and scuffs to your car’s paintwork, you have come to the right place!

This blog site and my YouTube channel are devoted to showing you the various techniques and products needed to undertake your own professional looking repairs, which will save you money, preserve your motor insurance no claims bonus and impress your friends and family!

I have been working as a mobile car bodywork damage repairer for the past 15 years, specialising in small to medium area repairs. I have repaired all types of cars; from old family hatchbacks worth a few hundred dollars, to exotic sports cars and luxury saloons costing more than $100,000.

Motor insurance prices have sky rocketed, especially in the UK, where I am based. Several factors have contributed to this;

1/ An increasing number of claims for personal injury; whiplash etc.

2/ A shortage in the supply of replacement body parts and sensors.

3/ Insurance companies insistence that damaged body panels are replaced, rather than repaired, even if the damage is minor.

4/ An increase in car hire prices and the availability of suitable hire cars, for when the insured vehicle is off the road being repaired.

5/ The increased costs associated with the repair of Electric Vehicles, including scene of accident safety requirements, which are different and more costly than for conventionally powered vehicles. I am sure that you remember from your chemistry lessons at high school, that lithium and water do not mix!

6/ An increase in car crime, caused by increased prices for utilities and food, combined with a reduction in targeted police resources.

So, there cannot be a better time to learn how to repair scratches and scuffs to your car’s bodywork!

Before we start, let’s clear up something:

I have seen lots of videos on YouTube and read advertisements for certain products, offering an easy ‘miracle’ solution for fixing scratches and scuffs to car bodywork. These ‘magic’ pens, wipes, aerosol cans and paint ‘touch in’ kits are expensive and do not work, not if your goal is for a professional looking repair.

Let me explain why the ‘snake oil’ option does not work:

When you choose your new car to buy or lease you will be offered a choice of colours; one rather boring and unattractive, no additional cost solid paint colour (normally white, black or beige) and a range of additional cost, super attractive and sparkly, metallic or pearlescent paint colours to choose from.

Nine times out of ten you will cough up the additional cost for the attractive colour, because colour choice is emotive and often high up the list of priorities when specifying must have options for your new purchase.

If you have ever taken a trip to Germany, you will find that most of the taxi drivers use Mercedes to ferry about their fares. Mercedes make great cars, which are usually uber reliable when it comes to covering high mileages and of high quality in terms of fit and finish.

For many years, Mercedes offered a no additional cost paint colour option, which taxi drivers usually opted for to save money. The colour in question was a rather unpleasant looking beige, which became unofficially know as ‘hearing aid beige’. Sorry, if you have a beige coloured car, like the colour beige, are a German taxi driver, or have a classic, beige hearing aid. No offence intended!

As metallic or pearlescent paint contains minute metallic particles to make it sparkly, it costs more to produce than the less desirable solid colours. If you put metallic or pearlescent paint on a brush, or spray it with an unmodulated aerosol can, the metallic particles will bind together.