Advice: to paint or not to paint this hood before sale

Hi team! I've got a totally beautiful white 996.2 that's probably going to end up on the market. But, there's a small cosmetic issue with the hood. When I got the car there were three tiny rock chips all together on the hood, and I tried to patch them up with a paint pen and clear coat. That actually worked pretty well, but the clear coat "dots" were raised up a bit more than I liked when I was all done. So I broke out the DA polisher and some fine polishing liquid, and tried to smooth them out a bit. Unfortunately, I was a bit too heavy-handed and accidentally overheated a patch about the size of a playing card, causing the original clear coat to slightly discolor. So, the question is, do I have the hood entirely repainted by a professional before I sell, to fix this issue? It's only visible from exactly the right angle with direct light reflecting off it in just the right way. For example, between these two pictures, I only moved the camera a few inches back and to the side and you can see it becomes invisible. Since the car is in such great shape, I want to fix it and maintain its "10" rating (in my own mind!), and if I'm going to sell I want to make sure the car is tip-top for the next owner. But, there seems to be a lot of concern in buyer forums about paintwork. So much so that I wonder if it's better just to leave it alone. I realize that a lot of paintwork concerns are really accident damage concerns, but there's such an aurora around "original paint" that I wonder if fixing it would actually devalue it from a sales perspective. Thoughts? Thanks!

Don’t if you listed it as a concourse car then go ahead but a driver will and should have signs of usage GLWS

^^^^ +1 what he says.

There is no substitute for the factory-original paint. It�s uniform throughout the panels, highly durable, benchmark quality. A discerning eye looking for a 10 car will walk away from a repainted hood, and a repainted hood is much more vulnerable to road chips than the OE hood. I had my lapis blue hood resprayed at a high price to eliminate a few road chips, and have regretted doing it ever since. I�d leave it alone.

I would consider having paint correction done before I would think to have the hood painted. Have the chips fixed as it will cost less money, if you feel you need to. For that matter, try selling as is first.

I'd let the next owner decide. Put it up for sale as is. Also, these are 20 year old cars at this point, I think a repaint with proper documentation proving it is not due to an accident should do little in terms of value. Plenty of bumpers have been repainted, but since it's more challenging to meter them (you need a $2k meter), most don't know.

They're going to want to match the paint regardless. I would save your money and sell as-is.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I think I�ll leave it as-is for now. Even though that just makes me more pissed off at myself for messing it up in the first place!