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Originally Posted by Magyarman
Well those scratches are pretty deep , even removing paint. there are scratch removers that may remove some but not all scratches. For the deep stuff ,there are paint pens that will fill the scratches,but at certain angles will show up as a not so good touchup job.
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"Not so good" is a understatement. It will look like a 5-year old fixed it.
Most of that will buff out but definitely not all of it. It can be made to look a lot less noticeable but that damage is going to require a repaint. Once you have removed the clear coat and gotten into the paint, all the buffing in the world ain't gonna fix it. Nothing fixes missing paint but more paint and the LAST thing I would use is a touch up pen.
Just to give you an idea as to what can be fixed, here's an undercover police car that a buddy of mine was driving when someone hit it.
Damage like this is going to require a more aggressive polisher than the PC-7424XP if you want to fix it sometime this week. At the same time, a rotary polisher could have easily MELTED this rear fascia considering how flexible it is. Since he was in a hurry, I had to just blast the job out. So I broke out some 3M Perfect-It™ I Rubbing Compound, 3M Perfect-It™ II Machine Polish, a flat surfaced green pad, a flat surfaced white pad and my trusty ol' Flex-3401VRG.
A couple of things to note. Normally I would have washed and clayed that area, and wet sanded that remaining scratch out of the paint. However, due to time restraints, I just did the "hook a brutha' up" repair. If you saw the finished product, you wouldn't have ever known that this car was in an accident. I told him to make sure that he reported it to Car Fax.
Here's the final results.
And because you all know that I never fake the funk, here's the flash test.
The Junkman