Originally Posted by
RiceAWay
Car paint shops usually won't take the job and if they did they would be a terrible job of it. A good bike paint shop like Cycle Art charts so much it would frighten you unless you're very highly paid. So this is something you might want to do for yourself. Good paint stores can match the paint in spray cans and use ONLY very fine sandpaper. This can take forever if you dug any trenches in the top tube. If so you can get carbon filler from plastic stores as a rule.
Hmmm......where I live the best painter for bikes is a car shop. Just had the redo a lot of the blue on this frame last year due to a lot of damage and the repairs, matching, and blending are flawless.
That said, this is the first time I've paid for this and I had a reason. Most times I'll live with the scratch or repair it myself. It's a bike and like the others said above. Battle scars are badges of honor.