Repair damaged copper wheel trim?
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mluisbrown
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Managed to scratch up one of the wheels on my Born, just the copper part. Any idea if there's an easy way to re-touch it or what it would take to get it properly fixed? I imagine that wheel repairers probably won't have that colour?
2023 Born 58kWh, Glacial White, 19" Typhoon Copper, Skyline, Blue Dinamica electric seats, Cargo, Privacy, Pilot M+, Tech M
2003 Audi A3 8L 1.9TDi PD 130 with 360,000kms.
2003 Audi A3 8L 1.9TDi PD 130 with 360,000kms.
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antoniomapinho
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The same happened to mine months ago and could use some thoughts. As far as I could gather, fixing it properly requires rectifying and painting all 4 of them, which is rather expensive.
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monkeyhanger
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While you decide what to do,I'd recommend a splodge of clear coat on those scuffed parts before white worm cosmetic corrosion sets in.
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I have a touch up pot for little nicks like that, believe the right colour is ‘Cup Copper 27A L27A’ from Xtremeautos. Would imagine they’ll do a spray can too. It looks exactly the same when compared to the paint swatch but as I haven’t used it yet, luckily, can not guarantee for definite but at £6, worth grabbing at the time.
This is a bit of an issue with me SWMBO has only driven the born twice, dinked 2 wheels 
Firstly the plastic covers are bolted on and easy to replace it seems, but you will need to take the wheel off. secondly a black sharpie pen and a copper sharpie pen give a good result (not great but good)
Firstly the plastic covers are bolted on and easy to replace it seems, but you will need to take the wheel off. secondly a black sharpie pen and a copper sharpie pen give a good result (not great but good)
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antoniomapinho
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Just ordered one of those copper touch up paint small bottles from XtremeAuto to give it a try. Postage to Portugal is more expensive than the product itself. Hope it works...
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mluisbrown
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Thanks! Do you have a link? I searched https://xtremeautoaccessories.co.uk/ and couldn't find the right paintantoniomapinho wrote:Just ordered one of those copper touch up paint small bottles from XtremeAuto to give it a try. Postage to Portugal is more expensive than the product itself. Hope it works...
2023 Born 58kWh, Glacial White, 19" Typhoon Copper, Skyline, Blue Dinamica electric seats, Cargo, Privacy, Pilot M+, Tech M
2003 Audi A3 8L 1.9TDi PD 130 with 360,000kms.
2003 Audi A3 8L 1.9TDi PD 130 with 360,000kms.
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antoniomapinho
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/165342910412mluisbrown wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 2:40 pmThanks! Do you have a link? I searched https://xtremeautoaccessories.co.uk/ and couldn't find the right paintantoniomapinho wrote:Just ordered one of those copper touch up paint small bottles from XtremeAuto to give it a try. Postage to Portugal is more expensive than the product itself. Hope it works...
