Hello everybody, I was visiting my dad over the weekend and he accidentally hit my car as he was coming out of the driveway . What is the BEST product that I can use to get this stuff out??! I bought the turtle wax rubbing compound and polish but, that crap didnt work. Here is what it looks like: [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG]

 

feel the scratches with your fingernail. if theyre as deep as they look in the pics, your fingernail will catch on them easily, and theres not much you can do.

one thing you could try is sanding with 1000g, then 1500, then 2000, and getting it buffed or renting a buffer. it could take out some of the ugliness of those scratches.

 

Ok, thx for the advice. Dang, to be honest I didnt wanna use any sand paper or anything like that because I feel that would make it kind of worse. Do you know of a special polish/ compound that the body shops use for this kind of stuff or something that I can buy online??

 

body shops usually use 3m step 1 rubbing compound.

but no amount of polish is going to do anything to a scratch that goes past the clearcoat.

all youre gonna be able to do is make it slightly better, unless you involve paint.

 

yes, i use rubbing compound on surface scuffs

if it is deeper than a fingernail then it will need to be painted

 

Meguiars PlastX polish will get that out easily. Just rub some on and buff it out.

 

Looks like paint was scratched away. Unfortunately, I dont think any amount of polish/rubbing compound will fix it

 

if the paint is missing in the scratches, then it needs to be serviced by a paint shop

but...

if it's not and it's the other guys paint, you can use car clay to fix it, sounds weird but....it works

 

Thx for all the replies! Ok everybody, I'm gonna try and get that 3m professional rubbing compound and polish off of ebay and see if that works, I know 3m makes great products. If that does not work then I know I'm gonna need some paint and body work.

 

plus you need a nice high powered buffer. polishing by hand aint gonna do **** really.

 

Ok,will do.

 

Just curious, what's a high power buffer, and what's the benefit over hand?

Dr J

 

well you gotta think about it. what is your hand and some polish really doing?

a buffer, like my makita one, can go up to like 5000 rpms. i usually use it at 1500 or so. but still. its the buffing pad spinning at 1500 rpms combined with the compound that heats up the topcoat, allowing those scratches to disappear.

with your hand youre really just spreading the stuff around.

 

Are you saying high speed buffer, so it can go 1500 rpm, or high torque so you can apply pressure to heat up the topcoat? I googled "high power" and it wasn't very clear.

Dr J

 

lol high power is an adjective i used. im just talking about a buffer thats not an attachment for your drill bit lol.

 

walmart sells it...

 

So we're not talking Chip Foose Powerball?

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...70&postcount=1

Dr J

 

 

I used this buffer with 3m perfect it compound and polish. It took some of it off but, the car is gonna need a paint job.

 

turtle wax rubbing compound works. you just didnt give it enough of an effort. rub it in till it starts getting hot. thats when it starts working best. you have to do it several times, it wont come out with one pass

 

no rubbing compound is going to cut down those scratches and fill the paint in

 

99.9% of people are ****ing stupid and are wrong when they talk about paint and body work on this forum.

 

and OP - this isnt really that bad. you could get spot repairs done on each door for pretty cheap i bet you. hell i know id do it myself as a side job for 500. all you need is a decent color match and to blend the doors.

 

how can you tell it needs repaint? its hard to tell if its past clear coat or not

 

I'm not really gonna stress it. The car still has the factory paint since 98 which held up pretty good for 13 years and I will be getting a stillen front lip in the near future. So, I might as well just paint the whole car BLACK and fix all of the little dings and dents all at one time.

 

the scratches look pretty bad, and I thought I read that the OP had already hit them with a DA and didnt work. I mean you could attempt to cut the clear and try blending but you run the risk of ruining the paint around it