Keyed (possibly), can I compound it out?

[direct]

Hey guys,

So I was looking over my wife's car yesterday because I'm about to detail all our cars and found that someone either keyed the car or there's a very weird kind of door ding / stone chip. It's rough to the feel so pretty deep. I've attached pics as best as I can.




Definitely looks like it was keyed to me -- what else could it be in your opinion? No way to isolate how, when or by who it happened. Anyways, do you guys think I can compound it out? Also, can I clay over it or would it peel off the paint? What's my best route to attempt to minimize the appearance of that? Maybe use a touch up paint brush to fill it in and then detail a little later? What do you guys recommend?

[Buster906]

If your fingernail can go into the scrape, cutting compounds cannot correct. If you wish to fix this on your own, I recommend Dr. Colorchip. Go to AUTOGEEK and have year, make, model and paint code ready.

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[direct]

If your fingernail can go into the scrape, cutting compounds cannot correct. If you wish to fix this on your own, I recommend Dr. Colorchip. Go to AUTOGEEK and have year, make, model and paint code ready.

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I'll see if my finger nail gets trapped in it, but it looks like the paint is still visible but there's just dirt trapped. If it ends up needing a repair, I'll probably take it to a local shop and see how much they'd fix it for -- can't be too expensive to get something that little fixed professionally. Hopefully I can just buff it out -- but not sure if I can even clay over that?

[Setec Astronomy]

Honestly that looks to me like scratches that have already been touched up.

[Sicoupe]

Claying it won't remove the paint if that's what your worried about. Sorry to hear this.

[direct]

Honestly that looks to me like scratches that have already been touched up.

too bad you live in NJ or I'd be paying you a visit to confirm I'll confirm today how bad it is and whether or not I can just go through with my detailing and compound that area with a DA. Those scratches were not there before -- not sure how they could be touched up.

I'll try to take a better picture too... its definitely keyed because it continues down further than shown in the pic just not as deep. Maaan, Idk why people do things like this...

[DetailKitty]

Honestly that looks to me like scratches that have already been touched up.

I agree- looks like scratches that were already touched up.

[direct]

I agree- looks like scratches that were already touched up.

i don't understand how that is even possible. these scratches appeared very recently. could they have been touched up from a while ago and just revealed now? :S

[PA DETAILER]

Agree 100%. Scratches that were touched up.

[opher50]

Perhaps touched up and glaze covered it? Just thinking out loud