Spot repair
A spot repair is a localised paint repair that addresses a small defect (a stone chip, a small scratch, a coin-sized dent) without respraying the entire panel.
What it means
Spot repair is the smallest scope of paint work. The damaged area is prepped, filled if necessary, masked with care to confine the spray to a small zone, then base-coat sprayed and clear-coated locally. The new paint is feathered into the surrounding original paint so the boundary is invisible at normal viewing distance. Spot repairs are fastest when the damage is small (under coin size), the panel is flat or near-flat, and the colour matches well in the spot zone. They become harder on metallic and pearlescent paints (where flake orientation matters across panel boundaries) and on contoured panels (where the sprayed area lacks a clean visual break). Done well, a spot repair saves significant cost and time compared to a full panel respray. Done poorly, the spot zone reads as a slightly different shade or shows a visible halo edge under direct light. Choosing whether to spot-repair or panel-spray a given defect is one of the routine judgement calls in any quote.
Why it matters in Singapore
Singapore's parking-density damage profile is dominated by small defects that suit spot repair: bumper scuffs, door dings, rocker-panel kerb scrapes. Knowing that spot repair exists, and is much cheaper than panel respray, often changes how owners think about everyday cosmetic damage.
How Revol Carz handles this
Revol Carz scopes each defect honestly and quotes spot repair where it suits the damage, panel respray where the defect is past the spot-repair envelope.