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A good friend, Ben, wanted to develope his editing skills so I scratched my own car, a very rare Subaru SVX, so he could film the repair. Get the popcorn and enjoy the movie:  

Stop motion film of a Scuff Sorter repair   You seem to like them, so here is another. A sub 4 minute stop motion film of a 3 hour repair. I started by scuffing the paintwork with a lump of concrete, but that hardly seemed enough so I attacked it again with a disc cutter, […]

I see it about once a quarter, the solution our fathers passed on to us, the abrasive cream in the back of the garage. There is a place for such products, mostly a generation ago, for removing light scratches; but if it is possible to catch your finger nail in the scratch it is almost […]

Many people have a “favourite” make of car, and for all sorts of reasons. There are a number of aspirational brands out there that attract customers, sometimes it’s just price, style or reliability (perceived and real). For this family they loved the whole Toyota thing, so on the drive were included an Avensis and a […]

Mercedes 0, Barbed Wire Fence 1 Very often my Customers do not know how the damage happened to their pride and joy, they come back to the car at the supermarket or office car park to find the damage and no note under the wiper. That was not the case here when the unfortunate driver […]

Citroen C4 rear bumper insert Sometimes a scuff is restricted to a small area in a large panel and other times it is located within a small well defined area as this one. This is a case of a bumper doing exactly what it was designed to do and as a result it was easy […]

When a Customer’s fuel filler cap got torn off Scuff Sorter came to the rescue when the replacement arrived un-painted. This is how it was done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJXWHT8UlN4&feature=youtu.be

Do you need your A/C on all the time?   At the weekend I needed to visit the family in the North East, a 450 mile round trip and a chance to see if the tales of hungry A/C was true or not. 200 miles up on motorway and duel carriageway, A/C on – 46.8 […]

Badges and Paintwork Repair   This Ford Fiesta had it’s rear hatch and bumper damaged while parked in a supermarket car park. When the owner returned to load the car, there was, surprise surprise, no note under the wiper. The repair itself is quite straight forward, but to get the best result, the tricky part […]

Plastic Bumper Dents Though known for 10 years of paintwork repairs, Scuff Sorter is often called to look at an area of damage with very little actual paintwork damage. The modern vehicle paintwork is very resilient as can be seen on this Honda CRV bumper. Despite lots of damage, the paint has remained in place […]