ok i have a paint scuff on my front bumper from a spin out involving a tire. whats the best way to get it off w/o scratching the paint

 

Pics would help. Did the tire leave black residue behind on the bumper, or was the paint just scuffed?

 

im not sure if its tire residue or the paint is scuffed i'll get pics up 2morrow its raining. the tires we're painted black and white and left a white mark behind

 

pics will help...
prob gonna be a clay or polish solution- however there could be another cleaning product choice, depending on what we see from the pics.

 

i've done everything i could thing of. hoping i missed some technique
i can't tell if its in the paint or if its a scuff.
Thanks in advance guys

 

First picture...I think that's a crack. Spider-web? I dont think you can buff that out.

 

Yeah, that's not something any amount of detailing is going to fix, I'm sorry.

What usually causes this is hitting something with the bumper. The paint isn't as flexible as the plastic it's on, so if the bumper deflects a whole lot, the paint will kind of crack like that.

I've heard that the cracking paint is a giveaway that the panel with the cracked paint has, at some point, been repainted. The guy who paints mine told me factory paint is more flexible than aftermarket paint, so if it's cracked, that paint is likely non original to the car. I don't have any hard evidence to support this though, just what my body guy says.

You're not alone. I've had the front bumper on mine repainted three times. The first two were from hitting cones at autocrosses. The last time was a tire carcass that got thrown up in front of me by another vehicle. I was "trapped" between two other cars, so no way to avoid it - I had to hit it.

I had him reinforce my bumper cover this last time. He used some sort of quick setting epoxy stuff, so next time me or one of my codrivers hits a multi-cone feature at speed, the bumper will remain firm, and not fold under like it's been doing. So far, it's working.

 

i nkow about the cracking. im talking about the scuffing below the cracking