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[RLdetail]

Those could very well be just scratches/nicks in the hood. My wife's hood has a ton of pits in it. They look like pin holes and some are short scratches that look very similar to yours. I would take a pic but the camera always focuses on the reflection rather than the defect!

I wet sanded with 2000 and then 3000 grit paper and then used a rotary with #84 & W7006,#83 & W8006, and then #80 & W8006 and it appears that I had no success in removing them or even making them less noticable.It's going to need cleared again but it's a lease and that's their problem when they get it back!

Between the gravel pits in the area, salt trucks, and the ten million trees we have I can't win with paint on horizontal surfaces!

[benhui86]

its basically wat u get after many thousands of miles w/ bugs and sand and little rocks kicked up by trucks and such.... get a bug deflector...... or just dont follow semi trucks or lifted trucks w/o mudflaps that close.....

[the other pc]

The reason I asked if they were cracks is that they don't look at all like scratches. Scratches are usually longer but varying in length, in tight parallel groupings and in discernable patterns.

From the pic they all appear short, similar in size, randomly oriented and separated by clear, glossy space. To me that suggests either surface or subsurface cracking or interlayer delamination.

Did using the ScratchX diminish any of them? What size area did you work? Try working a really small area, like 1"x1", with serious passion, multiiple times with ScratchX and terrycloth. If you couldn't feel the defect initially and you don't see some improvement after that much ScratchXing the defect isn't on the surface.

Have you looked at the surface really closely and verified that they are in fact on the top surface? Do you have a magnifier you could use for inspection? If not you can pick up this Illuminated Microscope at Radio Shack for about ten bucks.



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[kbkid]

Alright I'll give that all a try. Thanks alot "the other pc"