Step up to the mark and call a decent local Smart repair operator-they can do amazing paint repairs for not a lot of money-don't bodge a new car you've just bought.

Then your choices are go elsewhere or leave it alone. Car paint is just not something you can fix at home. No matter what you do to it, you'll wish you'd left it alone.

How about another photo, this time from a distance at normal height so we can see it in relation to the whole bumper,

Doesn't look as if it would be visible. Live with it, it'll be joined with a few more scratches and scrapes over the years. Plastic doesn't rust.

The Micra we have had a careless fellow parker scuff the drivers corner of the rear bunker when the car was about 6 months old. It looked a real mess, right down to the black plastic on a silver car. Main dealer wanted to basically repsray the whole rear end and part way down each side at a cost of over £350.

Wife had good experience of a local smart repairer (had a propper workshop) who they used before their lease vehicles were returned so we gave him a shot. He quoted £55 and had the car about 6 hours. On collection it looked perfect and 7 years later the paint is stil a perfect match.

Have a word round workmates etc, one will have had good experience of a similar chap to the one we used.

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As others have said, you'll need a mobile fixer or a shop to make a perfect job of that. Probable cost £100 or so I reckon, maybe a bit more. Is it worth it? Only you can decide! Personally, I wouldn't worry about it, it's a tiny mark which will not rust and not very visible. I have several like that on our fleet! If it's a lease car you might get marked down on return though. I've had success with a fine point nail or art brush - never use the brush supplied,it's far too big. You need a perfectly clean surface and lots of patience, to very gradually dot fill the mark in and build it up to try and match the surrounding paint. With care, a reasonable job can be made which will look acceptable. I remember spending a whole day touching in a similar mark on the bonnet of my Octavia. 3 months later it was totalled in a head on crash. What a waste of time that was!

Actually lambada I'm coming round to your way of thinking because I wouldn't spend bodyshop money on a Bluemotion Golf either.

Out of curiosity what was your previous car?

Don't get me wrong, I'm only winding you up. It's really not my sort of thing but if you like it then great, hope it does everything you want it to. Personally I like something a bit more interesting and I just couldn't get on with something as slow as that.

It isn't worth spending money on that scratch. Live with it, or stick a "Good driver?" sticker over it.

Worry about it when its time to sell - you may have even forgotten about it by then.

Well don't powerwash it! Sponge bucket and hose is the best way to wash any car.

The paint should not peel, if it does, that's a manufacturing fault and would have peeled under a powerwash anyway.

Enjoy life and don't stress about a silly scratch.