I'm a farkin idiot...was finishing up installing my silly lowering springs last night and stopped being SUPER careful with the crazy deep lug wells on my Enkei PF01's (was only being mostly careful instead of SUPER careful). I didn't realize the finish would mar so bleeding easily. In any case, I managed to mar the finish in a few places and was wondering if anyone knows of a reasonable way to touch them up.

Enkei lists the finish as "Silver". So, anyone with another "silver" Enkei wheel have any experience finding a touch up stick that matches well?

 

Take them to a good wheel repair shop. Pay about 1 bill a wheel. Trying to touch up yourself will most likely turn out not to your liking.

Trust me, pay the bill.

 

The mars/scuffs are all pretty small...dunno if they're worth $100 wheel refinish. You can't really see them unless you get close up on the wheel and start looking. Was just hoping to make them a little less obvious.

Plus I can't find a wheel refinish place here in town (Sioux Falls, SD), I already looked some. I need to refinish the OEM wheels on my 2000 ML320 ...they're looking REALLY bad (clear coat yellowed and peeling, permanent stains, etc).

 

pretty dumb to pay $400 for touching up

 

He didnt say all 4 wheels damaged... and pretty dumb to take a touchup paint pen to nice wheels.

 

Its bound to happen, just live with it. No girl will ever notice, nor care if she did.

 

Correct, there is only one wheel that I'm worried about. I'm really peev'd at myself about this because its 100% my fault and a result of stupidity and getting lazy/in a hurry.

The more I think about this the more I agree. I like living in a small town, but sometimes its a pain in the ****, particularly when it comes to looking for more specialty type service like this.

I've got to take the car into my body shop...they did some repairs a couple of years ago and evidently didn't prep the lower part of the front bumper 100%, so I'm getting some paint peeling. They're fixing it no charge...really good people. I think I'll ask them if they can take a look at the scrapes and see what they might be able to do.

 

I agree here, too.

IMHO, either get it fixed the right way at wheel shop now, or leave it until you do.

 

They make a silver Sharpie if you just want something to superfically cover it up in the meantime.

 

personally go out and find some touch up paint and test it out. if its just a small scuff here then touch it up as best you can. i'd only pay money for repair if you had some serious damage like a bend or bad curbage. if it's minor.. wait til something serious happens.