Grocery Cart Scratch Removal using Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover and Porter Cable 7424XP
It's Saturday, September 26th, 2009, a nice sunny warm day and I thought I would come to work and test out the RaggTopp Convertible Fabric Top Protectant on my brand new Bikini Top on the Jimmy. The Bikini Top is made out of a waterproof material, (Sunbrella I think), but it's been raining here a lot so
while it's brand new and clean, I want to lay down some
extra waterproofing protection.
As I get started, Max drives up and shows me a couple long scratches in the rear, passenger side fender from a shopping cart. He wants to know if I have time to remove them and slap some wax back on the affect area and of course I do!
The scratches weren't deep throughout the entire length of the scratches but there were some areas, probably the point of impact where they did go deeper.
One thing I've been recommending for years on the forum is,
You can't always completely remove a scratch but you can often times improve a scratch to the point where you either can't see it, at least easily or or at least you can live with it versus have the area repainted.
Such was this incident. I figured I could completely remove all traces of the deepest portions of the scratch by sanding a little with some
#2000 Nikken followed by a little
#2500 Nikken and then simply remove my sanding marks but at the same time a lot of people can't and don't want to take a simple fix to these extremes so for now I just removed and improved the scratches to the point that you would have to know where they are and then be at the right angle to see them.
The below photo has not been resized but I did flip it 90 degrees so you wouldn't have to horizontal scroll.
This is the
Porter Cable 7424XP with the bonus flat cutting pad that comes with the
CCS Spot Buffs 4 Inch Foam Pad Kit while supplies last. I'm using the
Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover on Speed Setting 6 to work the scratches out. I followed this with the White CCS 4" Polishing pad with the
Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish again on the 6.0 Speed Setting and the applied some
Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant 3.0 to seal the paint afterwards. The white towel is on the tire to prevent splatter from getting all over the tire and wheel.
Products used Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant 3.0 Porter Cable 7424XP CCS Spot Buffs 4 Inch Foam Pad Kit 
Sign-up for Mike Phillips's Detailing Boot Camp September 29th & 30th 
) and exhausted my funds for the 4" pad kit too!
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