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Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

Does anyone know of any really good product for bringing back paint color or removing minor scratches? I know "Malco of Ohio" is a really good one, but I don't know where or how to get it, so it would be really nice if I could just find one at Auto Zone or something like that, but most of that stuff doesn't do a darn thing for me. Any suggestions?

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Vince Ponz · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3581 Location: Florida

Micro glaze polish. It is a mild abrasive and you could get out minor scratches and swirl marks.
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Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

Hmm, that might work, I dunno tho, see what happend was, the person that had the it before I did was painting something near the car and got some over-spray on it, well when I got the car my dad took some paint thinner and some steel-wool to take the over-spray off, but it scratched it up a little, and being the car is 20 years old the paint is a little dull anyways, and I don't have the money for a paint job so I'm going for the next best thing.

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356speedster · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 122 Location: Norway

I've had good results with Meguiars products.

Looks, like Auto Zone sells meguiars

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Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

Do you think that would help my situation?
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356speedster · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 122 Location: Norway

Hard to tell without seeing a closeup picture of the paint. But if you have made scratches that go all the way down to the primer, then there is no "miracle" product that will restore your paint.

But if you have shallow scratches/swirls in the clearcoat or even into the basepaint, but not all the way down to the primer, then the Scratch-X can save your paint.

On "Dull paint" you will get "miracle" results. But I recomend to buy a polishing machine, unless you consider polishing a nice way of training your arms

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Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

Well, it's not that deep, probably just clear coat deap, so it might do some good, but I've never had any luck with scratch-x on former cars I've had, but maybe I just don't know how to use it.
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NBRettie18 · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:12 am Post subject:

Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

It looks like your door has just lost it's clear coat.
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PORSCHEV · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

The door was obviously repaired in the upper section and repainted with a low quality enamel. Get yourself some quality micro fine compound. I swear by 3M products, but have also had good results with Farcla.

For Druman....The best solution for yours would be to get a coarse buffing compund and go over thecar first..then the micro fine. If you have scratches that are deeper, spot sand with 2000 grit wet paper. Then buff. You will need an 8 inch varible speed buffer and the proper buff pads. Most supplier can get you set up. Don't use the old wool pads..they do more harm then good.
The coarse compund uses a stiffer foam pad that you use along with water as you buff. You then clean the area for the micro fine, and go to the soft foam pad and buff to high gloss shine.
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Druman · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 419 Location: Middleport, Ohio

Thanks Porschev, If I ever get the matierials I'll give that a shot. A guy I know used a little bit of paint cleaner one time on a small spot on the car and it made it look really good, but I dunno if that would be good enough or not.
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

Eturbo924 · Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 2212 Location: Londonderry NH

Best is to compound it a bit and then use a polish.

If you do not want to compound it Mothers Gold has a nice product that worked great on two of my cars. Not sure they were nearly as bad as yours but it hid the heavy swirls left from the body shop who did my pain job. Yes he cut the clear to hard and left some nasty swirl marks. I did not see them when I picked up the car. They did not show until after what ever polish he used wore off.

Oh and on the rubber left over from the adhesive strip use a heat gun or hair dryer. Then carefully peal it off... with out burning yourself.

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924guy · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject:

Red is a pita to keep shiny, but you can bring it back with some elbow grease. more often than not, the problem with red is that oxidizes due to lack of uv protection. you dont "have" to use a orbital polisher, but it will help allot, and doing it by hand is exhausting and sometimes, inconsistant. you can find them fairly cheap, under $50 new, and sometimes you can get for $5 or $10 used if you look around. any of the major brand products will work, I prefer 3m compound and polishes, and Maguires waxes at the moment. fairly low cost products that give good results if you work at it.
heres a link that has some basics, its a "buy me" type site, but the basics are there, and you can find tons of more detailed info using your favorite web search engine. http://www.properautocare.com/usdualpol1.html

if the compound/polish/wax method doesnt give the results you want, you may have to respray (but i doubt you'll have to go that far) and it is possible to get great results using shaker cans if your careful enough, prep correctly, and do your homework first.
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Eagle924S · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:05 am Post subject:

My paint was a little dull and I got a Maguires 3 step wax/paint cleaner. IT had a paint cleaner, polish and then wax and I was impressed with the results but this was almost a year ago and some parts of the car, mostly the roof look like they could use it again.
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