Scraped sideskirt - options?

[blinkme323]

Originally Posted by JimboB5

Blink, by all means... if you're not as " Car Crazy " as I am and don't feel comfortable doing the repair AND it really does bother you, follow Mr. Stoops advice and pay someone else to fix it for you; then all you have to do is keep in clean and shiny afterwards. Hope it works out for you. Good luck.

Thanks, the dealership I bought the car at is going to take a look at it on Monday, so I'll keep you guys posted.

[JimboB5]

For sure; hope they are fair with you. If you were near Florida, I'd say come on by and we'd get it done.

[blinkme323]

Well guys, I took it to the dealership yesterday and upon inspecting the scrape, the estimator said that they "just need to touch it up" and that it would be free of charge. So they took my car back and about 15 minutes brought it back out. At first glance it looked ok, but upon getting it home I realized that they used the wrong color black for the touch up! So needless to say, I removed the touch up paint and went and ordered the correct color online. I'm really debating on whether I should just do it myself at this point.

[the_invisible]

Originally Posted by blinkme323

Well guys, I took it to the dealership yesterday and upon inspecting the scrape, the estimator said that they "just need to touch it up" and that it would be free of charge. So they took my car back and about 15 minutes brought it back out. At first glance it looked ok, but upon getting it home I realized that they used the wrong color black for the touch up! So needless to say, I removed the touch up paint and went and ordered the correct color online. I'm really debating on whether I should just do it myself at this point.

Well, I am honestly not surprised. Considering that the touch-up was free of charge, you couldn't really go up to them to complain about it.

With most factory or aftermarket touch up paints, they are sold based on the production date of your car. Colors with the same name on the same model of vehicle may look differently depending on their production dates. I hope you ordered your paint from www.getbmwparts.com as they sell touch up paints based on VINs. I did a few wetsanding touch up jobs on my e92 and they came out perfect thanks to the near-perfect color matching touch up paint.