I removed a particularly stubborn chunk of bird shat from the beater to find this





i've caused the scratching trying to get this off. I tried a light polish and it had no effect, my feeling is that the paint is too far gone to buff out. not the end of the world as the bonnet is pretty heavily stone chipped.

any thoughts?

 

Sh1t out of luck?

 

ha frickin ha. i think so.

its not that noticeable so i'll live with it i guess if it wont polish

 

I had some similar damage on my lease car and completely removed it with Autoglym 'colour restorer' (basically a fine cutting polish).

 

Nott,

You need to take the clear coat down. It looks like the shat has permeated that and gone through to the colour

You can definetly sort the scratches you have done, get the DA polisher out. I've found this stuff to be pretty useful for bad scratches...

http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/car-po.../prod_822.html

That will even do the biz without a machine polisher but will take ages. If I were you, I'd get that on the job and whilst it won't resolve it completely, it will def make it lots better.

If you have balls of steel, get on the wet sanding. I'm quite good at that now and only been practicing for 3 months.

 

Wot Chesh say.

Don't try to get it 100% out, just minimise it.

Over the years of compounding, a few like that on the 'Lude's roof & boot lid have all but vanished.

 

right i'll give it a go

i tried some ultra cut compound but i think the paint is too hard for this.

http://www.gsfcarparts.com/981aa1490

 

That looks like a fine-polishing compound.

Start of with something nasty like ScratchX on a low speed with a hard pad & then progress to something medium and then to that stuff.

 

if that was my car, I'd try overfilling it with clear lacquer first, then polishing off the excess - same approach you'd use with a stone chip

 

I think polishing cars is better than driving them. Tempted to ask lee if I can be a franchisee of Xd