First, keep in mind that my car is NOT in showroom condition. It's berlina black, 9 years old, 105k miles, and has HUNDREDS if rock chips and paint imperfections. I would never do this to a mint S2000.

Anyway, so I have a couple deep scratches. Not key marks. Not sure where they came from. I also have a crack in the paint on the rear bumper.

I used black nail polish and a toothpick and quickly dabbed paint into the crack. Then I quickly wiped it away, the nail polish stayed in the crack and wiped off the paint. There was no trace of the nail polish on the regular undamaged surface.

I tried it with the scratch and it didn't work as well. When I wiped the area it totally removed the polish from the scratch also.

Next, I experimented on a couple of the deeper rock chips. It worked like a charm.

This method works great for deep imperfections in the paint. Honestly, you couldn't even tell the paint was damaged. For obvious reasons, it did nothing to the shallow scratches. The imperfection needs to be deep and narrow enough that the nail polish will seep in but not wipe off.

The range of paint damage this method works for is very small, but if your paint damage fits into that category, it's a cheap and easy fix.

I wish I had before/after pics, but my camera phone couldn't capture the detail.

btw, this is not a permanent fix. I'm repainting the car within a few months so I didn't fear screwing up my paint too bad. It actually works well.

 

Hey Ts80,

Why not just spent the 5 bucks and order the color matched touch up paint by H and A?

http://www.handa-accessories.com/s2000-03ext.html

I give you props on having the balls to do that though


Stay black,

Lu Dawg

 

the only reason I used the nail polish is because my wife had some laying around. Yeah, it was a little adventurous, but the car is getting repainted so I can afford to experiment.

 

Now, this may seem as a silly question, but I just wanted to hear some thoughts..

IF I used nail polish, or the touch-up paint from honda, and painted the "H" emblems to match my rio yellow, would the paint/polish stick? and sort of disguise itself in the paint?