Help repairing dent

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sahlin

I am seeking some advice on how to go about fixing a small dent/paint gouge.

I have a 68 Firebird that I finished painting and a VCR (Yeah, who has a VCR anymore? me = idiot) was stacked near the car and fell and chipped/gouged the paint in front of the passenger side rear wheel well.

This was my first ever paint job and here is what I used.

SPI epoxy
2K urethane primer
3 coats of urethane single stage Flame red made by Kirker
sanded 600 wet
3 coats of SPI Universal Clear
sanded 400-600 wet
3 coats of SPI Universal Clear

So, what is the best way to go about fixing this VCR gouge. Is it possible to repair the gouge and just reshoot single stage and clear over a small area near the gouge or am I looking at reshooting single stage flame red over the entire quarter panel and then applying clear? Not sure what to do as Ive never done any spot repairing or blending. Its not a show car but I would like to try and go about this the best way.

Thanks!
 

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Technically you have to spot the repair with primer and color, then reclear both quarter panels and the roof in order to have a correct and permanent repair. If you want to cheat and spot it in, SPI sells blender which will help melt your repair in the surrounding area. The prep and technique take a bit of skill and an excellent job on a first try would be somewhat miraculous. Let's see what the other guys have to say.
 
+1 on the "somewhat miraculous" Crash...:) But if you are feeling brave blending the sail panel is do-able. Buff the sail panel afterward and it would be very close to invisible if you get it right. You will need 2 guns though, one for the clear, one for the blender. I'm too tired to go into the details now if you decide to try let us know and we'll walk you through it.
 
Thanks so much for the responses. Well crap. Sounds like a tough job. The VCR debacle will pain me even more now.
Nothing miraculous has happened yet while restoring this car....so when I take this on I wont expect anything miraculous to happen.

What does the blender actually do? If you didnt use blender and spotted in color and then cleared say the front half of the quarter.....what would the eye see in the finish that would make it look incorrect? A dividing line between the old clear and the new...and the blender attempts to melt new clear into old?

Thanks for the help.
 
There would either be wicked overspray that would not buff out, or hard lines if you got your gun too close to the masked off areas. The blender is used to melt the edges of your overspray into the surrounding paint. The serious problem with this in regards to modern finishes is that they are all "solvent resistant," which means you can never truly melt a repair into cured clear. Someday, it will start to show. In the old days, blender melted the overspray edges into the old paint perfectly because it also melted the old paint a bit, too. That does not happen anymore with modern paint technology.
 
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