Paint on scratch resistant coating
Submitted: Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 00:31
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Member - The Crow (QLD)
A number of years ago I read in one of the 4x4 mags about a clear coating that you can paint on your 4x4 to help resist scratches to the paint when out in the scrub. When you return home you can wash it off with
water. Does anyone know what the product is and where you can buy it from?
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Reply By: Member - Phil B (WA) - Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 01:34
Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 01:34
Yep its good stuff, I use it regularly.
Go to
http://www.autoskin.com.au/
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Follow Up By: Mick O - Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:01
Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:01
Yep, ditto there. I take some with me as
well to touch up if need be. There are two varieties of the same product. Autoskin and Scratchpro. Scratchpro is getting hard to find. Have been using autoskin for a few years and I would not leave home without it.
Cheers Mick
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Reply By: SDG - Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 13:08
Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 13:08
Another that a spraypainter friend of
mine showed me once was an additive you can put in the paint when you do a respray. We hit the panel he was experimenting on with a hammer. Big dent, no marks on paint. I grabbed a tree branch to simulate bush driving. No scratches.
Cost as much as the paint though. Usually only found on expensive cars. He was resraying a lambogini. Door needed replacing.
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Reply By: Kimba10 - Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 14:49
Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 14:49
Wish I had this stuff last week, have nice pin striping down the side of prado now from off road last week, ah
well out with the polish and try and al least lighten it up a bit. Regards Steve M
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 23:50
Friday, Oct 08, 2010 at 23:50
Hi Steve
Do not despair. After a few very remote trips with our Prado, it did not look like a new car with all panels looking as if I had attacked the car with steel wool and to top things off, our last Simpson trip crossing of
Lake Poeppel and
water and mud on the car did what I thought would need a respray - very large
water marks the size of 20 cent pieces that would not hand polish out. Have taken the car to a good local spray painter and all he did was buff the car with magic white paste. Looking at the car now it looks like new and not a mark on the paintwork and you would never have know it had been off road. Take you car to a good spray painter and get it buffed and you will not believe the results.
Cheers
Stephen
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Reply By: Member - Christopher P (NSW) - Saturday, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:31
Saturday, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:31
Hi All, depending on how deep a scratch is you usually can polish it out.
But to those who own nice clean cars, show ponies ( like my sisters tojo 80 series gxl [ only kidding] ), if you approach or have a friendly panel beater who will let you rub back the scratch and he does final prep and paint, then you can get it repaired for a couple of hunderd dollars. If you frequently need it done, then he might even charge you a smaller fee.
I have a tame panel beater as a friend and a top quality mechanic aswell. nothing is too far out of the ordinary for them.
just a thought i would share.
Another thing with my panel beater mate, because i have worked in a panel
shop it saves him fromdoing all the crappy rubbing down and prep work.
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Reply By: Jumankum - Saturday, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:52
Saturday, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:52
We used this stuff on the canning
http://www.paintguard.com.au/ very good and no scratches on the vehicle and camper despite having branch's scraping down the sides for klms
Cheers Jim
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