The trees in the Lakes grow closer to the road than they do down South! and I ended up scraping the whole of the side of my car (2005 Ford Focus, metallic silver) with a tree last week. Not the trunk, the whippy branches
It's not awful, but I want to give it a bit of a polish to try and get the scratches out. What polish would STW recommend?
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Polishing out scratches from the side of my car
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Posted 2 years ago #
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3m perfect it 3 compound followed by a good wax/glaze
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Been told farecla
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Try a duster with a bit of WD40 on it. Works a treat on that type of scratch.
Wash the paint straight away afterwards though.
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I too have several car length scratchs after a weekend in the lakes
, so keep em coming - especially the 'what you might have around the house' variety.
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T-cut and many hours of your life.
Something like Autoglym super resin polish will help by filling them.
Other than that find someone with a proper polishing machine,Eg UDM or a Meguiars g220 and some Menzerna power gloss cutting compound.
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I have 2 polishers i m about to put on ebay if you are interested
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Pay a car valeter £50 to 'mop' the car for you? Mopping is a powered circular polisher that is far faster than hand polishing, but if you try one yourself you may go through the paint with it.
polishing out scratches by hand is a pain in the arse, and you'll end up buying £20 to £30 worth of stuff to do it properly. £20 extra to get a pro to do it is a good idea.
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and that should get the whole car done, so the paintwork should look like new all over unless there are big chips out of it
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Modern car paints generally consist of a coloured base coat and then a clear coat over the top. If it's just a scratch through the clear coat (i.e. you can't see bare metal), then Meguiar's 2.0 Scratch-X. Works really well and is very hard for you to get wrong. Did a lot of this last year with a car I had - branch scratches the length of car. Takes an age without a random orbital polisher but does amazing things. Spend the money and get the little foamy pads, too, not just a J-cloth.
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Avoid T-Cut if possible, clean the area thoroughly (gently off course of all dust) then use two layers of gentle polish/wax.
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