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[GrandAmSS]

Today me and a frined of mine were at the lake cuttings some logs and moving them, well long story short he left his sharpening block on the top of my car. I took off and I got the top and the trunk scrathced up pretty bad. I am going to buy somthing called Turtle Wax Color Cure car wax anyway and that should work, and if it doesn't I don't know what to do. But he says if the wax doesn't work he will buy me a touch up kit. So has any of you ever used this kind of wax before? Plus any advice for fixing it? Thanks!

[RJ213]

dont know anything bout the wax but personally id rather just do it right and paint it

[GrandAmSS]

Yeah but how much does it cost to paint it? i guess maybe you think it is worst then it is. I should explain this a tad better. basically it is just two big marks. Both about as long as my palm, and as anarrow as a pencil. What it looks like almost is a bar code. The scratches are were the stone landed off the trunk, and were it was stoped by my spoiler. Personally I don't think it is worth 3 grand to repaint my whole car over that. A tocuh up kit is basically painting only that part right? I have never had to do anything like this so if anyone has any advice i am open to any suggestion.

[RJ213]

are the scratches just on the trunk lid?

[RJ213]

depending on how deep the scratches are u might get away with just buffing em out

[GrandAmSS]

Yeah there just on the trunk lid, yeah wouldn't buffing with the wax aork well? Though I have never buffed anything before so I guess I really don't know how to buff well.

[RJ213]

it may, i wouldnt really know without lookin at the car, but if it doesnt i would paint the trunk lid

[JoeyK]

This all depends on whether or not it went through the clear coat. If it did, no buffing or wax in the world will help. If it went through you could get a good detail brush & use touch up paint but you'll always see it. Depends on whether you can live w/ it like that or not. I know I couldn't, especially on a 2 year old car.

[tenspeed]

If the damage is to the clear coat only, you can fill the scratches with clear coat and use buffing compound or polishing compound to even the surface. Buffing with wax won't do it, you need one of the compounds.

[JoeyK]

You can't fill it w/ more clear & have it look perfect. It'll still show. If it's through the clear it's either 1/2 a$$ it w/ touch up or repaint.

[GrandAmSS]

Well i know it isn't through the clear coat. I just waxed it and it covered it up a tad. But you can still tell, so I should just buff it out? I can do that. Thanks for the help!

[JoeyK]

Well, waxing wouldn't cover it up but it may have smoothed it out a bit. Yeah, if it's not through the clear use either reg. or super duty compound then machine galze & either hand glaze or a good wax oughta do it. If you're not used to buffing since it's a smaller spot I'd just do it by hand. Less change of going through that way.

[GrandAmSS]

Ok here is a stupid question, I really don't know how to buff or what to use to do it. From what I can gather is you buy a scratch remover and some kind of rag and whipe it in a circular motion tell the scratch isn't visible, or do you have to paint after you buff? Sorry I never worked on car paint like that before.

[JoeyK]

Think of buffing as liquid sandpaper. There are coarse grades to fine grades. If the scrath is deep start w/ a coarse grade, onto a med. then a light & finish with a wax. Keep in mind the whole time that if you take too much paint off you will then have to repaint. Basiacally, once you break through the clearcoat & expose the basecoat (The color coat) you've went too far.
Just use a good clean non abrasive rag/ towel like terricloth. & be patient rubbing a little bit at a time then check to see your progress. If you've never done it it may take a while, especially doing it by hand but atleast by hand there's alot less chance of you goin through (To the basecoat) & ruining it. Good luck!:)

[JoeyK]

I forgot, one more thing- change cloths everytime you step down to a different grade. There's times when I thought I had it completely out & when I got to the light compound & started to shin it up I could still see the scratch so I ust go back to heavy or medium & go through the process again. ~ Just an example to let you know this is not an exact science. If this happens to you it's no bigggie as it can happen to anyone.