Please help =(

[cRaVe420]

I need help getting rid of some scratches... I'll attach each pic below...

[Mike Phillips]

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How to put pictures into your posts

[cRaVe420]

My rear bumper messed up due to some guy rear-ending me a while back..

[cRaVe420]

Close up of the rear bumper

[cRaVe420]

Some ******* thought it would be cool to key my car when I was in Quiznos for 10 ****ing minutes!!!!

[cRaVe420]

Closer look at the scratch...

[Mike Phillips]

It's hard to tell from the pictures what exactly you're working on, regardless, below are three links to threads that discuss how to remove swirls and scratches by hand.


What it Means to Remove a Scratch


How to remove a defect by hand with ScratchX

How To Remove Swirls By Hand


Remember, you are limited in what you can do by the thickness of the clear coat. In some cases you cannot completely remove a scratch, but you can often times improve a scratch to the point that it is much less noticeable.

[cRaVe420]

My friend failed at backing his Camaro into the parking space next to my car and rubbed... It isn't scratched at least I don't think it is.. I'm not sure what that is... I can't feel the scratch, it might be something with the clear coat.

[cRaVe420]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
It's hard to tell from the pictures what exactly you're working on, regardless, below are three links to threads that discuss how to remove swirls and scratches by hand.


What it Means to Remove a Scratch


How to remove a defect by hand with ScratchX

How To Remove Swirls By Hand


Remember, you are limited in what you can do by the thickness of the clear coat. In some cases you cannot completely remove a scratch, but you can often times improve a scratch to the point that it is much less noticeable.

I just need help getting that keyscratch out to as unoticable as possible... That bugs me the most.. I filled in the scratch some with touch up paint and evened it out with some rubbing compound and rubbed some scratchx on it, but I still need to fill in some of the spots I missed. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can do a better job fixing that?

I NEED DETAILS... THIS IS NO SMALL SCRATCH.

[benhui86]

the key mark looks a bit more obvious in person.... it was worst before the touch up paint was leveled w/ rubbing compound..it was a pretty heavy key mark to start with... yes i used rubbing compound on black!! but had no choice but it obviously made it a lot better overall after scratch x was used to get rid of the marks that have been made by the rubbing compound.... just wondering if anyone has a good technique for leveling touch up paint... is wetsanding the only way?

[Mike Phillips]

Is benhui86 the same person as cRaVe420?

[benhui86]

nope... but uhhh im his friend and i helped him detail his car a bit.... sorry for the confusion

[benhui86]

im going around spreading the car crazy bug to my friends.... .... yah the solara right there needs a lot of work... the defects just arent showing up with the camara

[Mike Phillips]

Truth be known... fixing key scratches like this is really difficult. It comes down to doing a good job of applying touch up paint and the a little polishing like you've done and call it good. As soon as you try to start wet sanding the area you run the risk of making the damage worse when you try to remove your sanding marks using a rotary buffer.

The best thing to do is to only apply a little touch up paint with a fine tip brush you buy at a crafts store, not the huge brush head that is built into the cap.

[benhui86]

so just keep doing the process of applying touch up paint little by little and leveling it down with compounds..... would 83 w/ the DA be safe too? b/c crave420 have just ordered a pc and is planing on fixing is other scratchs and the major swirl problem he has now with 83 and then 80..... ive remembered seeing one of the experianced memebers on this board do a black jetta that had a shovel mark on it.... would be great if i could get the key mark to look like that...