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01AUDI

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I have always had this on my side view mirror and cant figure out what it is. I am going to use mk37 360 on the entire car and wanted to know if you think it will take this out ? When you touch the paint it doesn't feel like a scratch so i always assumed it was where someone knocked it with their car. Although its pretty high up so i don't know what door is that tall. But anyway, will the 360 take it out or is there anything else that will work ? I cant tell if it is over my paint or it is where the paint has rubbed off.


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Very hard to tell from your picture but it is either paint transfer or fine scratches.

If you want to correct it yourself, you can do so by using a mr. Clean magic eracer to gently remove the transfer, then polish it with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound followed by Meguiar's Ultimate polish. The whole thing should take you half and hour an cost you about 20-30$.

Otherwise a detailer can take care of it for you. It's a simple fix if it's a paint transfer. If it is scratches, it will likelly require more work and be a bit more expensive to fix but damage like this is rarelly very deep and all or at least most of it can be fixed.
 
Really, a magic eraser ? haha. It doesn't feel like a scratch, that's the only reason i say its paint transfer. Ill try that suggestion first and see what happens! thanks
 
It appears to be paint transfer... The magic eraser will work, but keep in mind this is the equivalent of a wet sand. I don't know the exact "grit" of magic eraser, but essentially it's an abrasive.
Better than magic eraser would be a medium cut clay bar with a good lube/qd/rinsless wash as the lube. Then you'll want to follow it up with a compound / polish will take that out if it's paint transfer. If it's scratches, it will certainly help.

hope this helps!
 
I did just order the Mothers Gold Clay Bar / lube combo.. would you say that is "medium" cut ?
 
WOW IT IS GONE !! Magic eraser for the win. Yes there are scratches underneath and i can see how it is like a wet sand, but it worked. I am sure once i polish again it will gloss it back up and remove the small scratches the eraser made.. right ?

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sinse we are on the topic of magic eraser.. i am going to be using a touch up pen and need to wet sand it down to flush with the paint.. can i just use the magic eraser too ? I know sandpaper isn't expensive, but if this works and i have one.. why not ?
 
LSNAutoDetailing said:
It appears to be paint transfer... The magic eraser will work, but keep in mind this is the equivalent of a wet sand. I don't know the exact "grit" of magic eraser, but essentially it's an abrasive.
Better than magic eraser would be a medium cut clay bar with a good lube/qd/rinsless wash as the lube. Then you'll want to follow it up with a compound / polish will take that out if it's paint transfer. If it's scratches, it will certainly help.

hope this helps!
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By my calculation it's about the same as 3000 grit sand paper. It's my go to for all paint transfer, takes them out in about 10 seconds. Afterwards just a little compound and polish and panel is back to normal.
 
01AUDI said:
WOW IT IS GONE !! Magic eraser for the win. Yes there are scratches underneath and i can see how it is like a wet sand, but it worked. I am sure once i polish again it will gloss it back up and remove the small scratches the eraser made.. right ?

https://preview.ibb.co/fmiDSR/a.jpg
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The magic eraser doesn't cause scratches. It makes the paint dull (super fine invisible scratches really). Those scratches you see were made when the mirror rubbed against what ever caused the paint transfer. To remove them you might have to wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper. This is more dangerous and delicate, if you don't do it right you could go through the clear coat so I am not sure I can recommend you do it yourself. Compound might reduce those scratches but will very unlikelly remove them all.

So you have to decide what to do next, I am not comfortable suggesting you do it yourself, so I think you might want to compound and polish and decide if it is good enough. If not you will have to either take the risk and do it carefully yourself, or talk to a detailer to do it.
 
01AUDI said:
sinse we are on the topic of magic eraser.. i am going to be using a touch up pen and need to wet sand it down to flush with the paint.. can i just use the magic eraser too ? I know sandpaper isn't expensive, but if this works and i have one.. why not ?
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Magic eraser cannot level paint. In order to level paint and make it flush, you have to use a lower grit sand paper (around 1000-1500 are usually best) on a block to flatten the surface. The magic eracer (or any sand paper without a block) will follow the shape of the panel and paint and will not flatten it. Since you are not a pro and have no training, be very careful with this. Use 1500, not 1200 or 1000 and only sand a few strokes at a time until you are satisfied with the result. The best way to do this is sand a few strokes in one direction, rinse and then sand a few strokes at 45 degrees from the original direction. Removing 1500 grit sand paper scratches will require a good compound with a cutting pad on a DA polisher. I am not sure you can do it by hand, maybe someone can jump in here if they know.
 
Calendyr said:
The magic eraser doesn't cause scratches. It makes the paint dull (super fine invisible scratches really). Those scratches you see were made when the mirror rubbed against what ever caused the paint transfer. To remove them you might have to wet sand with 2000 grit sand paper. This is more dangerous and delicate, if you don't do it right you could go through the clear coat so I am not sure I can recommend you do it yourself. Compound might reduce those scratches but will very unlikelly remove them all.

So you have to decide what to do next, I am not comfortable suggesting you do it yourself, so I think you might want to compound and polish and decide if it is good enough. If not you will have to either take the risk and do it carefully yourself, or talk to a detailer to do it.
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your exactly right, i didn't word that correctly but yea the big scratches are from the paint transfer not the magic eraser. the eraser did make it dull but no scratches. Will a typical polish take out the dullness from the eraser (est 3000 grit), or so i actually need a compound first ?
 
Polish might be able to take it out, but doing the compound first is easier and faster. If you don't have compound, try doing the polish only and see how it comes out... I always do both so I am unsure of the results just doing polish... as a rule of thumb polish will not remove scratches and will only remove very minor marring... I think this is too deep for polish but I might be wrong. Only cost you a few mins and a few cents worth of product to try, so go ahead ;)
 
OK yea I can try that, would i use an orange pad or another color? Also can I do "spot treatments" throughout the car with a compound and then go back through the enature car with a finishing polish? I have a couple deeper scratches I want to get out but would rather take the less excessive route and do t want to compound an entire door panel for a couple small key scratches.
 
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