Pristine Image
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- Oct 13, 2008
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About a year ago I decided to take a pair of stock F-150 tail lights and black them out to match my truck. To me they looked great although the clearcoat was "grainy". I didn't mind this much so I've been driving around with them like that since. Today however I decided, "Hey, why not polish them out and make them look as if they were professionally done". So, out came the sandpaper, FLEX, and Meg's #83.
The tail light on the left in the picture below is what it started as. The tail light on the right is what the polishing resulted in (I only did the section above the reverse light). The gloss looks great from far away but I accidently grabbed the wrong sand paper and wreaked havoc... :bash: I tried polishing out all the deeper scratches thinking I put down enough clear to get to it prior to the black paint but I noticed black starting to show up on my pads so I stopped. I tried Meg's #80, #83, and Plasti-X, all on speed 6 with an orange CCS pad.
I really want to fix my mistake but don't know the best approach for it. If I spray the "messed up" area with a few coats of clearcoat will the deeper scratches be filled in or will they still appear, just under more clearcoat? I'm pretty ticked at myself right now... Any suggestions on how to fix this?
The tail light on the left in the picture below is what it started as. The tail light on the right is what the polishing resulted in (I only did the section above the reverse light). The gloss looks great from far away but I accidently grabbed the wrong sand paper and wreaked havoc... :bash: I tried polishing out all the deeper scratches thinking I put down enough clear to get to it prior to the black paint but I noticed black starting to show up on my pads so I stopped. I tried Meg's #80, #83, and Plasti-X, all on speed 6 with an orange CCS pad.
I really want to fix my mistake but don't know the best approach for it. If I spray the "messed up" area with a few coats of clearcoat will the deeper scratches be filled in or will they still appear, just under more clearcoat? I'm pretty ticked at myself right now... Any suggestions on how to fix this?