Fixing a minor paint chip

I'd chill. You likely damaged the black spoiler, which is plastic and therefore won't rust.

If you want advice on repairing a minor chip, you'll get more responses in the maintenance sub-forum. Try a search there, you'll find lots of posts.

 

You might want to check this out:

Dr.ColorChip Custom Automotive Touch-Up Paint Kit - Dr. ColorChip: Automotive Paint Chip Repair Systems

It really works as well as its advertised.

 

What exactly did you hit: the gloss black spoiler? BTW, there's a thread just a few down the page "need help..." on similar subject. Those damn hatches swing up too far: we have a ten foot ceiling in our garage and it's still not enough...

Within the first week of getting ours I managed to nick the spoiler with the garage door: a trailing bar on the drive mechanism went up and over the spoiler, on the way down. I think luckily two of the garage door rollers jumped the track, saving more serious damage.

As far as I know the thing is plastic: white(r) inside, with gloss black exterior. I pumiced and rottenstoned the worst of the damage on the edge, then filled in the tell-tale white areas with brush strokes of an automotive touch-up applicator, color described as "Universal Black". It seems solid still, ie: it's mounting points haven't loosened.

There's still a fine line along the top that I'm just ignoring. It looks a fair bit better, anyways.

 

Sometimes with the touchup paint you can make a small nick look worse.

Thats one reason I like the Dr ColorChip kit. The paint is very thin, and it comes with a set of tools and brushes that are EXCELLENT, really letting you touch up a small nick without putting a big glob of paint on there.

The idea of "smear and then buff off" I can take or leave, what I like are the tools and the thin paint...