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Scratches After Cleaning Bird Poo

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  • 24-02-2008 11:31pm
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    Green Hornet
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    Was cleaning a piece of bird**** off the bonnet of my car today using a wet rag but guess what? Must have been grit in the bird**** and I now see some scratches in the paintwork. Not deep but I can notice them. Is there any way to "fix" them without resorting to T-Cut or something like that?:mad:


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    Seth Brundle
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    Meguiars Scratch X


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    Neilw
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    kbannon wrote: »
    Meguiars Scratch X

    Agreed, steer clear of t-cut, scratch x is good stuff.
    If you can't remove all the scratches with scratch x get some autoglym super resin polish and put a couple of coats of that on top, super resin uses fillers which will hide lighter scratches.

    Neil.


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    JoeA3
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    Scratch X should help a lot, as long as the scratches are very fine - if you can catch the scratches with your fingernail then it won't work.

    What type of car is it? I've had mixed results it, depending on make. VW/Audi paint is extremely hard, so I've found it not much use on VAG cars. But I tried it on a Ford once, and it worked very well for this type of thing.


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    Green Hornet
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    JoeA3 wrote: »
    Scratch X should help a lot, as long as the scratches are very fine - if you can catch the scratches with your fingernail then it won't work.

    What type of car is it? I've had mixed results it, depending on make. VW/Audi paint is extremely hard, so I've found it not much use on VAG cars. But I tried it on a Ford once, and it worked very well for this type of thing.

    A new model Honda Civic. Lucky enough the scratches are not deep and the car is silver.


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    JoeA3
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    Silver, not too bad... they'd look far far worse on a dark colour! Try the scratch-X stuff, its about €15 in any motor shop. You need to apply it fairly firmly and maybe more than once.

    Stay well away from T-Cut!


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    WHITE_P
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    Bird sh!t is corrosive, and if left on the car will eat into the finish.


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    Neilw
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    WHITE_P wrote: »
    Bird sh!t is corrosive, and if left on the car will eat into the finish.

    Yes it etches thru the clearcoat....nasty stuff :mad:


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    Sandwich
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    Why such universal thumbs down for TCut? Bad stuff in general, or just not the right thing for scratches?


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    JoeA3
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    Its far too severe. Brute force approach. You will potentially make the marks worse with it!


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