Look what they did to my boy! Scratched my own truck on accident

I was backing into my already tight garage to work on some stuff, and forgot to close up my work bench mounted Vice..scratched my paint and fender flare pretty good.

What are my options?

 

Option 1-blame it on the wife.

Option 2-forget about it

 

^

 

Polish the paint and either replace or plastidip the flare?

 

take a torch/lighter to the scratched plastic. Should help darken the scratch up

 

Use Dr Colorchip on the paint scratch. Worked wonders for me from a rock chip

 

Luckily, the fender flare took the brunt of the abuse. I used to care about "scratches" in the flares, but honestly, that's what they're there for. If you go offroad, tulips will leave scratches in that plastic... Ultimately, they're cheap and easy to replace.

As for the paint, if it's not down to metal, I'd buff it as good as I could, maybe use scratch fixer, but at the end of the day, be thankful you bought cement, as it hardly shows. If it's down to metal, use touch up paint to keep it from rusting... and then forget about it. Sucks that it happened, but at least it was your mistake. I hate it when my truck gets a dent or a scratch from other people... hurts less when I did it myself.

 

Totalled

 

Mov

Change your garage.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. I offer 5K for the vehicle as is scrap to take it off his hands.

 

^^ This,
Try buffing as much out of the paint as possible and replace the plastic fender flare. Most bang for the buck. Bet you'll be satisfied.

 

I hate damage just as much as the next guy, but i'd likely just live with it. The fender flares must be a special gold plastic considering how much Toyota gets for them

 

Fix it the right way the first time at a body shop, pay up and be satisfied! Thankfully nobody gave the stupid ass remark " it's a truck" bullshit. Fix it and move on.

 

Totaled

 

First scratch is the hardest.

 

Part out?

 

embrace it

 

Part out!

 

Exactly! Thank you!