| How To Get A Rid Of Minor Scratches - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| Odey |
| A guy i work with was at the car wash, and didnt notice there was debris on the brush, and washed his car with it, so there are minor scratches in the paint. Im just wondering if there is a easy way to get arid of them ( without repainting ), if so what it is. |
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| EK9Hatch |
It is probably just scratched in the clear coat. Usually a good Polish and Wax will take care of it and make them go away. If they are deeper, there are a few products out there that help to some what eliminate the scratch. Scratch X is one...check Canadian Tire, etc.
Jamie |
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| Odey |
| awesome man. best thing to do would to be polish the whole car im guessing. so you dont get spots that look shinier then others. it just looks like the scratches are in the clear coat...just enough to notice them up close when the car is clean in the sun. |
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| STiPWR |
| Replied to your PM Odey. |
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| type_r_project |
If the scratch is just on the clearcoa and hasn't penetrated to the paint, here's what I do for a quick repair. Take a microfiber cloth and a tube of TOOTHPASTE, wash off the area where the scratch is, wet the microfiber towel, apply some toothpaste onto the towel, and polish out the scratch with the toothpaste. Then rinse the toothpaste off. Toothpaste doesn't work for very long (it dissolves in water), but it is a VERY FINE GRIT. That's why it polishes your TEETH :D :D :D It's such a fine grit you can polish clear PLASTIC with it. I do the same to repair scratches on my faceplate or cellphone. I just wipe off the residue on those with a damp microfiber towel afterwards instead of rinsing them. I hope this works.
P.S. I've found that blue Colgate works best. |
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| Odey |
| haha ive never heard of that before...the general comments are to just get it power polished so im hoping that will get arid of them. |
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| type_r_project |
| It's important to use a microfiber towel only. A regular cotton towel will leave spiderwicking on your clearcoat, while microfiber towels won't. Depending on the color of your car, (black or dark blue cars are too much maintenence to make appear clean anyways) it will make the scratches MUCH less noticeable if not get rid of them completely. Depends on how big and deep they are. Under bright light and close scrutiny, ALL scratches, no matter how fixed up they are (unless repainted and re-clear coated) will show up. Most people won't bother looking at your car like that. Cars on the street are viewed at with a few seconds glance anyways. The only time you should be uber-anal about scatches are car shows, which don't happen everyday, and a good waxing will usualy temporarily hide those kind of scratches anyways (after they've been buffed or toothpasted);) Good luck man. Hope it works for you.:thumbup: |
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