Car interior re-spray or touch up

• rockysham000

  23 Sep 05, 00:36

  Dear Bros,
  
  Unfortunate incident just happen to part of my car interior, not drastic or major though. But on my new car ...
  
  What happen is, i bought this car perfume thingy and placed it on my dashboard area .... but it's a bottle type where when i e-brake the bottle may just fell and the perfume will just drip of and drop on to my car interior ..
  
  Normally i just wiped it off, but recently without noticing, the perfume actually drop on my car interior near my gear area, and since the perfume it's kinda acidic, it actually formed a white patches on my dark grey interior gear area ...
  
  below is the pic since my description of it is not so good ... the patches can't be seen clearly from here .. but the patches which peel of my original coat is around these area ...
  
  
  
  when i send in for my first 1000km servicing, enquired on this too, but was told they can only respray the whole panel which cost about $100 just for those small white patches ... doesn't seems worth doing it though ,...
  
  Therfore need opinions and info from you guys out there .. if there's anything i can do about it?? Thought of covering up with stickers etc ... but will look cheap though ...
  
  Any good place to recommend to fix this issue ???
  
  Any suggestion and ideas, all are most welcome ...
  
  Many thanks in advance and hope to hear from you guyz soon ....
  
  Good day.
  
  
• thingy

  23 Sep 05, 00:56

  can't see your pic but maybe u can try to DIY?
  
  assuming that your car's panels are removable, remove the panel either by screws or most likely plastic pop rivets... (just use a flathead to 'pry' it out)
  
  get it cleaned with methanol or a solvent, then buy a can of auto paint (~$13?) and then spray the panel in your backyard or something..
  
  when it dries just pop it back to place... may not be the best job in the world..
  
  or you can use touchup marker paints to cover the area... if not a small paintbrush, but there'll most likely be a colour tone difference..
  
  hope this helps... if not for your current problem then for future (touchwood) 'accidents'...