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Hello,
I tried using some techniques I learned from a Meguair's Detail Day from Mike Phillips a few years back today
. Mike is a great teacher, but unfortunately, I was not very successful with the task at hand.
Situation:
My coworker's hood got keyed. When I looked @ it, it didn't seem "that bad" - none of the keying seemed to go straight thru the paint, most of it seems to be in the clear & some may have reached the color layer.
What I tried:
- #83 Dual Action Cleaner/Polish - didn't do much; applied by hand as well as w/ Meguair's Porter Cable
- ScratchX - did very little; applied 3-5 times slowly w/ passion by hand, and then a few times using the porter cable, and another 3 applications by hand.
This is a picture of what the scratch looks like (before):
After the polishing/scratchx, still lots of work to be done - spent 2 hours on it, and don't think I accomplished much:
I think most of the difference in "before/after" is just my lack of camera image capturing skills, it was getting darker, so the scratch doesn't look as apparent.
Any suggestions on what I should try next? More ScratchX (I used a good 1/4-1/3 of the bottle)?
I saw Mike teaching someone to apply touch up paint & wet sanding the scratch w/ 2000 grit sand paper, but I don't want to make things worse on my coworkers car - I also don't want her to have to spend 400-500 getting the entire hood resprayed for such a relatively small scratch.
Thanks for the help!
I tried using some techniques I learned from a Meguair's Detail Day from Mike Phillips a few years back today
. Mike is a great teacher, but unfortunately, I was not very successful with the task at hand.Situation:
My coworker's hood got keyed. When I looked @ it, it didn't seem "that bad" - none of the keying seemed to go straight thru the paint, most of it seems to be in the clear & some may have reached the color layer.
What I tried:
- #83 Dual Action Cleaner/Polish - didn't do much; applied by hand as well as w/ Meguair's Porter Cable
- ScratchX - did very little; applied 3-5 times slowly w/ passion by hand, and then a few times using the porter cable, and another 3 applications by hand.
This is a picture of what the scratch looks like (before):
After the polishing/scratchx, still lots of work to be done - spent 2 hours on it, and don't think I accomplished much:
I think most of the difference in "before/after" is just my lack of camera image capturing skills, it was getting darker, so the scratch doesn't look as apparent.
Any suggestions on what I should try next? More ScratchX (I used a good 1/4-1/3 of the bottle)?
I saw Mike teaching someone to apply touch up paint & wet sanding the scratch w/ 2000 grit sand paper, but I don't want to make things worse on my coworkers car - I also don't want her to have to spend 400-500 getting the entire hood resprayed for such a relatively small scratch.
Thanks for the help!
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