I woke up to these scratches :(

Re: I woke up to these scratches :(

That sucks, I wake to my 2 year old daughter at our door wanting milk
 
slickooz said:
Maybe I was at Kmart yesterday. Great timing I have a 20 off 150 and love the free shipping.

After sanding down that deep scratch, should I just put touch up paint on it? The other ones I'm sure it shouldn't be too much removing them.

I'm finally going order the foam cannon, I wanted to know if its worth it? It will def make you look more professional when washing a client car, but do you guys get tired of it and don't use it anymore?
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I don't think you're even gonna need touchup paint. Once you sand, compound, and polish. The white in that scratch will be gone. Touchup will actually stand out more than the scratch itself. You'll see what I mean when you do it.
 
Kristopher1129 said:
I don't think you're even gonna need touchup paint. Once you sand, compound, and polish. The white in that scratch will be gone. Touchup will actually stand out more than the scratch itself. You'll see what I mean when you do it.
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Thanks guys! I'm going wait for my foam cannon and sand paper to come before I try to do anything to the car. After looking at the other scratches it should be real easy getting rid of them. The only one I might have trouble is the one that is deeper. I hope sanding 2000 then 3000 compound and polish will make it look better.
 
Has anyone here ever used Dr. Chipaway? Do they have some type of filler/hardener to fill in those chips?

I also got a very fine tiny small paint brush that I'm going see if I can touch up if all else fails.
 
ShaunD said:
Be very careful on Japanese clear though. It is pretty thin and soft. At least on the Subaru I had. I tried blending some clear coat cracks on my 05 STi from where some subaru "mechanic' closed my hood with his hand and dented the hood and cracked the clear; STi hoods are aluminum. Just using the orange cutting side of a Wolfgang German Polish N’ Wax Applicator, and some XMT4 compound I cut through the clear and start getting the blue paint on the applicator. I probably rubbed too hard, and the spot was on the very nose of the hood so it was worn from daily driving and bugs and debris. But, I learned a valuable lesson not to under estimate the power of the combo I was using even by hand. Just start out least aggressive product and go up until you start removing the scratches. Keep checking you pad and the area you are polishing to make sure you aren't pulling up clear or base coat. If you wet sand and start with 2000 grit, start out letting the paper cut and if it needs more pressure apply a little at a time until you get results. And keep it wet and clean while sanding. Good luck and show the results.
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Damn that sucks, yeah when working on edge you have to be extra careful. When you burn the clear were you using DA or rotary?

dad07 said:
Slick that sucks man....didnt you just get that car painted?
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I got the back passenger sided painted about a month ago, those pics are from font passenger. If this was my older car I wouldn't of worried so much.

After I saw a thread on acurazine where someone car was vandalized so bad, I would take these any day. He must of pissed somebody off it just unlucky, someone had put either paint thinner or acid on every panel of the car. He said damage total over 10k.

my car was VANDALIZED!!! :pissed: - AcuraZine Community
 
I just finished removing the scratches on my car. I was able to make it 95% better. I bought putty thinking I would need to fix it in to fix it but sanding did the trick. I used 2500 then 3000, then compound and polished. Thanks guys for the help! Will post pics tomorrow camera is dead now.
 
So yesterday it was 55 degrees so I went up and tried wet sanding those scratches.

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After pic 1,2,3 the deeper scratch was sanded down and its barely noticeable now.

From a foot away you can't see the deeper scratches but if your looking for it you can still see a light scratch. How do you guys tell if you past the clear coat? I tried being very careful only using 2500 and 3000 grit. I then used Ultimate Compound with orange flat, then M205 wit white pads. It came out real good but now I'm a little worried about its clear.
 
If you never saw any color from your paint when you were buffing, then you didn't went pass the clear... Now just make sure you add some nice protection to the area, since we will have a nice day today too... Temps are gonna drop again.
 
ROMEO said:
If you never saw any color from your paint when you were buffing, then you didn't went pass the clear... Now just make sure you add some nice protection to the area, since we will have a nice day today too... Temps are gonna drop again.
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Yeah no color on pads. Do you guys actually add a clear coat on top of those scratches then wetsand it flat?
 
slickooz said:
Yeah no color on pads. Do you guys actually add a clear coat on top of those scratches then wetsand it flat?
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I don't usually. But, I have tried that method before. I did it on a scratch that was through the paint. I added touchup paint, then sanded it flat. Then I added the clearcoat and did the same thing. It came out alright.

The problem with that, is it's tough to seperate between the paint , and the clear. Makes it harder to get a uniform repair. For example...when you're sanding the clear, you may accidently break through and be into the touchup paint. At that point...it just starts to look funny, ha. I prefer the paint alone.
 
Kristopher1129 said:
I don't usually. But, I have tried that method before. I did it on a scratch that was through the paint. I added touchup paint, then sanded it flat. Then I added the clearcoat and did the same thing. It came out alright.

The problem with that, is it's tough to seperate between the paint , and the clear. Makes it harder to get a uniform repair. For example...when you're sanding the clear, you may accidently break through and be into the touchup paint. At that point...it just starts to look funny, ha. I prefer the paint alone.
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Thanks! Going try it myself once it get nice. There was this pen I bought at Pepboys and it said it was a filler/primer. Should I return it? It was like 7 bucks.... I have the putty and it seemed to work fine in filling in deep stuff. Only problem with the putty was that initially when putting first coat of touch up it didn't stick to well to the filler. Do you use primer? But after I keep touching up with it the paint stuck.
 
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