how to fix a "keyed" paint job

[jimmy joe]

My car was keyed, all along the sides, past the paint it seems.
Happened before I bought it, one of the reasons i was able to afford it, I suppose...

It is starting to bug me, and I wonder if anyone has had luck with a product to fill or match the paint.

[charlyW]

Have you tried some of the colour polishes ? Over here in the UK We can get a product called T-Cut that has a small stick with it which you use to fill any scratches it's by no means a permanent repair but will last 5 or so washes and looks nicer than scratches or failing that Volvo will sell you a colour match can

[Craigd2599]

was it cut all the way to bare metal?

[JRL]

Depending on the color, certain types of detail shops do a dry fill repair.
It works pretty well and for the most part, the damage is not noticable until you stick your nose right up to it.

That being said I'm sure it was not designed to do a complete car!! but I suppose anything is better than what you have.
I'll try to find out the name of the process and post it later or tomorrow..

I've used this several times, sometimes it's so perfect you never would have known there was a scratch there and others it looks OK but not perfect.
It depends on the depth and width of the scratches and, as I said, the color of the car

[1997volvo850]

A photo of the damage might help.

I've got rust and a few serious scratches I'm currently working to eliminate. Some to primer and some
to bare metal.

Once you are down to primer or below you need colored paint to repair it (according to what I've been
reading).

Haven't got to try the final coat yet but have some ideas I'm planning to try in order to produce a flush repair.

I purchased colored primer, touch up paint, and spray paint online that matches my 850's color code.
Not terribly expensive compared to having a shop do it.

For the scratches I plan to carefully prime, fill with touch up paint, and sand with very fine sandpaper.
The fill part will be the trick since I want the repair to be level with surrounding area. My plan is to build
it up slightly above surrounding area and sand with fine grit paper.

If this works out I'll post before and after photos. If it doesn't then, oh well...at least I won't have white or
silver scratch marks.

[lorant]

use volvo paint and clear, and apply until it it higher than original paint then get some toothpaste and a real buffer and blend till you can see the scratch no more. try it youll thank me. then when done, buff like crazy, then glaze

[JimBee]

Today at Menards I bought a kit for fixing deep scratches in auto paint. The ingredients are a combo elixir you wipe in and it catalyzes in exposure to sunlight. Regularly priced at $7.95, on sale for $2.95. Worth a try at that price.

[Retired MVS Contributor]

If the car has a factory clear coat, and I would suspect it does, any method of buffing will produce a matte/foggy look around the repair and it will show...

IPD sells a product called "Langka Paint Chip Repair" (IPD # DMLP01)...You will need the original factory paint pen to successfully use Langka...You overfill the scratch with touch-up paint until it is raised above the car's finish and let it dry...Then you take the supplied smoothing tool, which is nothing more than a blank credit card, wrap it with a piece of toweling, coat the edge with Kangka, and rub this tool's coated edge back and forth on the scratch...The Langka softens the touch-up paint and smooths it out, filling in the scratch until it is even with the original paint...The excess touch-up paint arount the scratch is removed and the scratch disappears...I used it on my daughter's S-40 which had been keyed and it worked great...Google will find other sources of Langka, too...It is made in Spokane...