Few tiny scratches after debadging car..
 

hey all,

i de badged my car a few days back, and got some tiny scratches....they are nothing that you can see from a distance..you must be up close to see them...but visible for sure!

I am just curious what sort of recommendations you all have to possibly get rid of these scratches/lighten them up a bit?

thanks!

How bad are the scratches, would doing a good wax job take them out, or are they worse than that? Got Pics of the scratches? There are a few polishes out there do really well on them. What color is your car?

They aren't horrible, i will take a a pic later today...and my car is silver...

get meguiers compound and buff it out, i'll take a pic of what i got at home, it worked miracles for my girls truck and i only used a cheap 20 auto zone buffer to get it out.

nice man, thanks for taking the time to do that.....appreciate it ;)

anytime:wave:

Always been hesitant to use a buffer on the paint, been doing all work by hand. Anybody recommend some waxes other than Meguiar's?

Honestly with the buffer I used you can't mess up your clear, it doesn't spin fast enough, but as for another wax, I'm not sure I really have only used meguiars, there is the turtle wax ice that's getting pretty popular now. You can try that

Mothers is always good, Adams polishes is another one.

i personally use meguiars NXT and mirror glaze polishes/waxes also menzerna is really really good. poorboys stuff is kinda good there was too much residue for my likes, also heard VERY good things about swissvax wax and victoria wax. pretty expensive stuff but shine is incredible!

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I'd even venture to say that it is nearly impossible to actually do a good buff job by hand. A human simply does not have the strength and speed necessary to generate the heat to actually truely "buff" the paint surface (which requires heat).

Orbital buffers suck ass! They can do an *ok* job for VERY small scratches and imperfections but if you want a truely glass smooth and mirror reflection get a real rotary buffer. As long as you keep the buffer moving you won't burn the paint or clear. Real buffers buff about 10-20x faster than an orbital and give results about 2-3x as good.

well said, i need to buff my car but cant, its a single stage acryilic enamel, no clear to buff, it'll probably just eat the paint up.:(

still orbital buffers you cant really screw anything up
they are cheap and easier then doing it by hand

In return you get a cheap and easy shine:ugly:, I agree with tage. So what you spend an extra 40 bucks or so on a buffer but, if it means i get that better of a shine or finish period. Then it has my vote :) tage what buffer would you recommand? brand and model if you can supply this. Thank you

I look at it like this, i buy a knock off brand of headers you buy a known brand for there name and performace with same motor set-up are they both gonna perform the same?


....I say not so much. :goodjob:

I had the same problem as you, light scratches that annoyed me, i also had fading but thats not the point. I tried wet sanding (which btw be careful with that) with some 2000 grit sandpaper and sat there for 45 minutes on one little area. Thought i made progress, but then i rubbed some Turtle Wax rubbing compound on there, rubbed it in real well, took it off and that paint was shining like 10X better, i tried the same thing for scratches and found that i can remove light scratches, (or at least mask them i can't tell cause it looks like they're gone lol ;)) with the same method.

would you recommend this buffing job for a newly painted car (painted in mid Oct)? I got the car back after paying 2k, and it looks like a maaco job. I mostly wanna know if it will help this small cluster of "cracks" more or less disappear. Otherwise, its going back for a repaint at the end of Jan.