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Old 07-06-2015, 12:29 PM   #11
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I bought the touch up paint kit below which has some clear coat and a "rough" polishing compound/ultra cutting cream. I would try to use this rough compound with a small microfiber cloth (like the kind used to clean eyeglasses) and apply some decent pressure in a circular pattern, to see if it will buff the scratches out or at the very least, reduce some of the smaller ones. It will leave the clear coat with a milky finish which is why you will also need to go over the area with a finishing polish like Maguires 205, which will return it to factory shininess. If this does not work, you will have to break out the clear coat from the kit below and with a very, very fine paint brush, try to fill in the scratches. Be sure to use a light touch and just fill in the scratch and not the adjacent area. You may need to go back over the area with the "rough" polish from the kit and then the maguire's finishing polish. Let the clear coat dry for a day before polishing it. This is only if it was a clear coat scratch. If it went into the paint, i would polish then paint, then clear coat then polish again.

This is what worked for me when a stupid piece of road debris got kicked up and scuffed my bumper.

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