Scratchs And Faded

keitht

Hi every one i have a peugeot 306 and its silver. on parts of the car ther are some scratchs and its Faded. thers some scratchs on the bonet. would any one have any ideas what i could us to fix this.

Thanks.

KEITH

colm_mcm

maybe some rubbing compound. as long as the scratches aren't too deep

bazz26

keitht wrote:

Hi every one i have a peugeot 306 and its silver. on parts of the car ther are some scratchs and its Faded. thers some scratchs on the bonet. would any one have any ideas what i could us to fix this.

Thanks.

KEITH

The faded paint is more than likely just the top coat of paint oxidized. T-Cut may be able to treat this, not sure if it will sort out the scratches though.

Interceptor

keitht wrote:

would any one have any ideas what i could us to fix this.

Save yourself all that tedious rubbing and polishing, trade it in against a shiny new one.

'cptr

Ernie Ball

Fixing it is probably more involved than you want to get into.

http://www.properautocare.com/usdualpol1.html
http://www.properautocare.com/noname5.html

Or you could just pay some people like this crowd:

http://www.carcraft.ie/

(I haven't used them but I hear they are good).

keitht

Thanks all for geting back to me

KELTICKNIGHTT

halfords sell scratch remover and also fade restore,can get polisher to do all

colm_mcm

rubbing compound will do it.

KELTICKNIGHTT

colm_mcm wrote:

rubbing compound will do it.

got some in halfords with polisher which you use for deep scratchs ,otherwise can do by hand

Guy:Incognito

Whats the company that someone posted here a while ago that come out and fix scratches and the like?

5500

www.carcraft.ie

ando

eireal wrote:

www.carcraft.ie

I back this up, these guys are amazing. Im getting my new car done by them in a few days

Táck

sticky topic maybe

Ernie Ball

Here's the thing about scratches and oxidised paint: you can do it yourself but you'll need either a random orbital or a rotary polisher. The latter is what the pros use, but it's possible to burn your paint with it, so most amateurs go for the random orbital. Unfortunately, the random orbital of choice, the Porter-Cable 7424, is 110v and not available in Europe. You can import one and use it with a transformer, however.

Note that neither of these tools are the cr*p buffers you get at Halford's or Argos, which will in all likelihood make the scratches worse.

Also, scratch removal by hand can be done, but it is a ton of work. If a random orbital polisher is oscillating at 4000 oscillations per minute, think how long it will take your arm to do the same amount of work.

Finally, some scratch removal products, particularly compounds, are quite abrasive. You'll want to use caution with them.

A useful website for this sort of thing is:

http://www.autopia.org, particularly the reviews and the forums. The folks there are maniacal about car paint.

Táck

my car has numerous scratches. some tiny, some not so tiny. one annoying thing is that the previous owner obviously washed the car in cheap car washes and there is scrapes because of this.

what will a t-cut polish do for the car? i might polish it using t-cut and if the problem persists, ring carcraft

smash

bring it to carcraft, they're good.