Scratches

[EwanF]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for removing scratches?

Some @@@@@r has scratched my black 500 down the rear quarter panel behind the rear side window, from the roof down to the bottom of the light cluster.

I cannot afford a respray and most of the scratches aren't too deep. One is quite deep however.

Is there a cost effective way to minimise the scratches and ensure the body work is protected?

Many thanks to anyone who has some advice!

Thanks,

Ewan
:-)

[wreckmaster]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for removing scratches?

Some @@@@@r has scratched my black 500 down the rear quarter panel behind the rear side window, from the roof down to the bottom of the light cluster.

I cannot afford a respray and most of the scratches aren't too deep. One is quite deep however.

Is there a cost effective way to minimise the scratches and ensure the body work is protected?

Many thanks to anyone who has some advice!

Thanks,

Ewan
:-)

Depends on the scratches offcourse, but a good machine polish by a proffesional detailer might fix it! Or wet sanding followed by machine polish:icon_thumleft: Worth checking out I think:icon_thumright: Good luck:)

[EwanF]

Thanks! I've been told Meguires do some good stuff for polishing out scratches so will have a go with that myself now that the weather is better.... fingers crossed i can get rid of them! :confused:

[wreckmaster]

Thanks! I've been told Meguires do some good stuff for polishing out scratches so will have a go with that myself now that the weather is better.... fingers crossed i can get rid of them! :confused:

Try the Meguires Scratch-x 2.o version 2 or Meguires ultimate compound! Both can be used both by hand and DA:icon_thumleft: Offcourse you get a better result with less work if you use a DA:icon_thumright: But it is not impossible by hand either. As I said it depends on the scratches, how deep they are etc... Meguires has a lot of really good stuff:cool: I use it a lot:)

Good luck:icon_thumleft:

[EwanF]

Cool will do. If DA is an electric polisher thing then I have one so will use it carefully. Fingers xd! :icon_thumright:

[wreckmaster]

Cool will do. If DA is an electric polisher thing then I have one so will use it carefully. Fingers xd! :icon_thumright:

DA= Dual action polisher:icon_thumleft: Safer to use than a rotary polisher:)
Dual action is an ocillirating machine( uneven rotations).

[EwanF]

Ah.... I did not know that. Thanks for the tip! Will have a look and see how much they are.. :icon_thumright:

[markbowie]

my wife has had her new seat ibiza sc sport just over a week she went shopping today when she got back to the car some tosser had keyed n/s 1/4 panel . I work in a porsche bodyshop and will be take it in to see if it can be polished out if not it will have to be painted :mad:

[EwanF]

Sorry to hear that. Some people are just plain nasty. I hope you manage to get it sorted. I was quoted about £1200 to respray the relevant panels on mine. :mad:

[Gadget]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for removing scratches?

Some @@@@@r has scratched my black 500 down the rear quarter panel behind the rear side window, from the roof down to the bottom of the light cluster.

I cannot afford a respray and most of the scratches aren't too deep. One is quite deep however.

Is there a cost effective way to minimise the scratches and ensure the body work is protected?

Many thanks to anyone who has some advice!

Thanks,

Ewan
:-)


Have you noticed that the t*****s use white underneath the black paint? As soon as you get a stone chip it glares out at you.

I got some slight scratches from throwing a rucksack into the boot. The plastic buckles must have hit the paintwork. I thought it showed really badly but I used one of those wax sticks and polished it with black polish afterwards and it wasn't too bad.

[EwanF]

Yep, i have a couple of chips too and they seem to glow! Very noticeable. I have just purchased a touch up set so should be able to repair the chips too.

Just gotta wait for it to stop raining now and warm up a bit!!

[markbowie]

took the ibiza to work today and got one of our painters to polish the 1/4 panel and thankfully the scratch has come out , even though i work in a bodyshop it sill would have cost a fair bit to put it wright

[EwanF]

I hope mine do too! Fingers xd....

[Abarthlyness]

Sorry to hear of the scratches... and on such a small car, they will be a lot more noticable. There is so little paint to begin with on such a small car... if you remove even the tiniest bid, it will glare at you:(

[Gadget]

Sorry to hear of the scratches... and on such a small car, they will be a lot more noticable. There is so little paint to begin with on such a small car... if you remove even the tiniest bid, it will glare at you:(

But you're still going to get one! :)

[Abarthlyness]

But you're still going to get one! :)

Absolutely!! Without question... Already cleared it with my wifelol

And the Abarth won't even show up here until late 2011, early 2012:(

I've got time to save more I guess right?