Hi all,

I'm a new S2k owner and since I've bought an AP1, I need to sell my '08 Corolla. I hope it is okay to ask for help about a Corolla here, but I figure this is a general body repair question.
Anyways, my car has the following scratch (see picture below) on the bumper. It seems to be mostly on the surface and I was curious if I can repair this sort of thing myself reasonably. I just want to fix up the appearance enough to sell it, I'm not looking to make it like new, if that makes sense. Someone told me I need a fine cut cleaner, but I'm not quite sure about that and wanted to get some opinions on what I should do.

Thanks for the help.

_ankur

 

The pictures may just be deceptive but it looks like that is mostly just paint from the other car. Will that not just rub off?

 

Most of that is indeed paint off another car. I tried a lot of things on my girlfriends car that had a similar problem (claybar, rubbing compound, etc.).

In the end, the only thing that worked for me was rubbing alcohol and a clean, cotton t-shirt (to rub it). I washed the side of the car first, then dried, then rubbing alcohol onto the shirt and lots of rubbing back and forth. Then watered down the cleaned-up spot to minimize the alcohol killing the paint.