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Originally Posted by mrhayes1
First i will admit that i am no body shop expert but have done a little work similar to this. That scratch looks pretty deep, like through the entire paint and down to primer so I highly doubt polishing/buffing would do anything. You could certainly probably get it to fade or look a little better by polishing but not much. Polishing and buffing is used to repair damage in the clear coat and even a bit into the painted surfaces. Your damage looks much further than that and beyond the scope of buffing. Regarding the clear bra, it is great and i highly recommend it, but for the cost it is not worth doing that part of the car. I would save the clear bra for the front bumper and get it done immediately; especially since you have a black car that is known to have not so great paint.
Working with a paint pen is quite challenging. It is great for filling small scratches, chips, and imperfections but the damage you have would be hard to do with a paint pen. You could try filling it in via a paint pen and then buffing/polishing to blend but you kinda have to know what you are doing for that. Paint pens tend to go on chunky and are very difficult to blend and look good and easy to end up looking like someone took a sharpie to your car...My suggestion would be to live with it or take it to a body shop and pay them to fix it. A decent body shop could probably fix it for a reasonable price with an employee who really knows what they are doing.
If you are really cheap and don't want to spend any money you could try a paint pen and then try buffing it to blend it.
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If I were to take it to the body shop, would they be completely repainting the quarter panel? The panels on the BRZ are huge and I am worried it will not blend with the rest of the car, regardless, do you have any experience on how much the quarter panel would cost to paint? I am willing to pay for it to be painted/redone but if it is just going to look off from the rest of the car, it seems pointless/negative progress.