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16th April 2016, 10:44 | #1 |
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scratch removal products
Has anyone found one of these that works? Despite investing a small fortune in the promises of 'permanent' removal in their youtube videos with their 'new technology products' as soon as the shine wears off/it rains the scratches reappear.
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At the end of the day a scratch is a scratch, as much as you try and hide it nothing will magically bring the paint pack without having it re-painted.
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Depends how deep it is. If it hasn't gone right through the clear coat, you should be able to polish it out using something like Meguires ScratchX. May need wet sanding first in some cases, which can be quite scary the first time you try it.
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what teflon said,how deep is it? can you catch your nail in it? if it is deep,it 'may' come out but would need wet sanded flat to get rid of the 'ridge' and 'flattern' it slighty,then multi stage polish with either a DA or rotary polisher
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These 'scratch removal' products are wrongly maned, they do not 'remove' scratches, they fill them thereby making them less visible. As you say, when it rains, or you clean the car or though natural erosion etc the filling inside the scratch dissolves away and the scratch is visible again. Total waste of money IMO.
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I have just removed a scratch and Rub mark off my car using WD40 after seeing a you tube clip sprayed the WD on and rub around the area of the scratch wipe off and the scratch/rub had gone.I then used a polish on top and all appears OK How long for I dont know will have to wait and see.
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If its not got to the base coat and still has the color brasso will will take the scratch away and the repolish the area. Takes time but you do get a good result . The same for the head lights when they become yellow .
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If it is not through to the base coat/primer, you could use a cutting compound or T-Cut to smooth the surface around the scratch to the same level of the scratched area, eliminating the scratch.
Other deeper scratches will need touched up, however you can lessen their visible effect with polishes and compounds. How these, and WD40 and even water work is, by deflecting the light around the scratch making it less obvious. The scratch will still be there of course, but it wont catch your eye as much, as the light reflecting off the sharp edge will have been smoothed off by the compound, or filled with the polish (and water/WD40 etc). The compound will be a longer effect, however as dirt builds up inside the scratch (I am talking tiny pieces of dirt here) it will build up the sharp edge again reflecting the light. In the case of WD/water and polishes, it will simply wash away and the scratch will become 'sharp' again therefore visible.
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I have seen careful application of blending lacquer re liquefy a small area of paint temporarily, thus allows the very clean scratch to be eliminated and one solidified the surface can be re polished...
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When I saw this link on the club site I did not believe it but thought, what the heck, give a try and I found out it worked. In my experience it works for any fine line scratch that has penetrated top coat plus paint, right through to primer, only time it doesn't work is scratches to bare metal. Scratches I've treated like this, then waxed over, have been hidden forever. Might look like "Snake Oil" but it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL2HIuJR43A |
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