YACT - fixing up a scratch?

[MDesigner]

Last night, my cousin was pulling out of the garage, and sideswiped my car. He sanded off the red car paint, and so now it's just black..but it looks kinda dull looking and I'd like to know the best possible (and cheapest) solution for getting it glossy black again like it used to be.

I read up on GS-27, that scratch remover, but it has horrible reviews on epinions. Any other suggestions??

 

[TechnoKid]

use a good swirl remover like 3M swirl mark remover, then polish such as 3M imperial hand glaze. Then wax. I would try using the least aggressive compound that you can first, swirl mark removers are less agressive than many rubbing compounds.

Meguiars has a professional line of products that you can try as well, swirl remover 2.0, followed with show car glaze #7, and hi-tech yellow wax #26.

If the swirl removers dont work, then youll have to use a rubbing compound before using the swirl removers.

 

[Red]

Lesson 1... Change "Car Talk" to "YACT" (Yet Another Car Thread)

Lesson 2... buy some 3M rubbing compound and some 3M Finesse-It compound from Pep Boys and rub the dullness out. Then wax the car and it'll look like new!

Lesson 3... make sure your cousin pays for the compound.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
use a good swirl remover like 3M swirl mark remover, then polish such as 3M imperial hand glaze. Then wax. I would try using the least aggressive compound that you can first, swirl mark removers are less agressive than many rubbing compounds.

Meguiars has a professional line of products that you can try as well, swirl remover 2.0, followed with show car glaze #7, and hi-tech yellow wax #26.

If the swirl removers dont work, then youll have to use a rubbing compound before using the swirl removers.

Is this kind of stuff available in like AutoZone?

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
use a good swirl remover like 3M swirl mark remover, then polish such as 3M imperial hand glaze. Then wax. I would try using the least aggressive compound that you can first, swirl mark removers are less agressive than many rubbing compounds.

Meguiars has a professional line of products that you can try as well, swirl remover 2.0, followed with show car glaze #7, and hi-tech yellow wax #26.

If the swirl removers dont work, then youll have to use a rubbing compound before using the swirl removers.

Is this kind of stuff available in like AutoZone?

the meguiars for sure should be availible at autozone (it is at mine, but i dont know if they carry all the products), for the 3M products, you may have to go to pepboys, or kragens.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Rumpltzer

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
use a good swirl remover like 3M swirl mark remover, then polish such as 3M imperial hand glaze. Then wax. I would try using the least aggressive compound that you can first, swirl mark removers are less agressive than many rubbing compounds.

Meguiars has a professional line of products that you can try as well, swirl remover 2.0, followed with show car glaze #7, and hi-tech yellow wax #26.

If the swirl removers dont work, then youll have to use a rubbing compound before using the swirl removers.

Is this kind of stuff available in like AutoZone?

the meguiars for sure should be availible at autozone (it is at mine, but i dont know if they carry all the products), for the 3M products, you may have to go to pepboys, or kragens.

Thanks.

Aside from the price being lower at AutoZone, I'd not noticed that Kragens and Pep Boys carried such different stuff.

 

[Fiveohhh]

Was there some kind of red paint over the black and he sanded the red layer off?

 

[MDesigner]

Actually he said there was some kind of white streak.. his car is red though. He sanded that off. It looks fine except that part of the car looks...well...sanded. Gotta get that gloss back.

 

[notfred]

You should have NEVER let him touch your car with sandpaper. You could have gotten the red paint off with a clay bar without scratching your car at all. Now the only way to get your car to look like it used to is to repaint the panel.

You can polish it all you want with whatever product you want, it's not going to make the clearcoat come back.

 

[xXped0thugXx]

mothers makes a scratch remover, works well. Recently i backed out and hit a lexus , black vs. white, i got all the black off my car and looks perfect. (besides the dent 😛 )