What type of scratch?

**gearguru** · 10-07-2013, 01:13 AM

Hello All,

Can you help assess what kind of scratches these are? I noticed it a week after I had my SUV detailed last April. I'm set to receive all my orders (polisher, compound, polish, etc) end of the month and hope you could help me make a game plan on how to resolve these...

Driver Door Handle

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Passenger Door (Driver Side)

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Hood

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PS Apologies if the scratches are not that obvious as one can only see them at an angle

Thanks,
Dinoi

**af90** · 10-07-2013, 01:22 AM

I'm having trouble seeing them. I think you may be allowing the camera to focus on the reflection on the paint instead of on the paint itself if that makes sense. Try putting your finger near the scratch and letting it focus on that or a small piece of tape.

**hernandez.art13** · 10-07-2013, 01:32 AM

I am having trouble too.

What is this? Or what do you think it is? or did you do something to cause it?

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**hernandez.art13** · 10-07-2013, 01:37 AM

What type of scratch?-imageuploadedbyagonline1381127811-319024-jpg

Zoomed in more (just trying to help)

**gearguru** · 10-07-2013, 02:01 AM

Understood...will try to take better photos and post it again. I can't feel the scratches (which I presume they are) and my guess is this is either via the polisher or sanding that the detailer used on my SUV.

**AutowerxDetailing** · 10-07-2013, 02:08 AM

I'm only seeing dullness... no scratches. It looks like the area was sanded and then never fully polished out.

**gearguru** · 10-07-2013, 02:17 AM

Yes I believe "dullness" is the better way to describe it...thanks!

**BlackHawk** · 10-07-2013, 06:41 AM

Exactly why you shouldn't let any old place to detail your car, how can you sand and not compound/polish afterwards.....

Mike Phillips · 10-07-2013, 07:35 AM

The dullness looks like fine grit sanding marks that have NOT been removed.

Very high quality sanding papers like the Nikken brand Finishing Papers as well as 3M Trizact and Meguiar's Unigrit sanding discs all use uniform abrasive particle technology as well as uniform placement over the surface and the results from this type of technology is a uniform sanding mark pattern that leaves the paint looking dull, not filled with sanding mark scratches.

Could be ordinary wet/dry paper too, possible #2000 grit or higher.

If you're saying your car was at the dealership for repair that included sanding then that's likely the problem... un-removed sanding marks.

Here's the good news...

You can remove these with a polisher and a high quality compound together with time and good technique.

Mike Phillips · 10-07-2013, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by gearguru

I'm set to receive all my orders (polisher, compound, polish, etc) end of the month and hope you could help me make a game plan on how to resolve these...

Thanks,
Dinoi

What are you ordering?

At a minimum you need a quality compound and then you'll want to follow the compounding with a quality polish.