Hello all,
on friday, before heading off to work to do my 12:30 - 20:00 shift, i decided, because i was pushed for time to take my car though the local armenian/polish hand car wash.
ive been there a few times before ande they always did a great job and are very polite and thorough
had the car cleaned, dried etc and off to work i went parked in the car park did my shift.
I returned to my car at 20:00, which by now was parked under a flourescent light in works underground car park an to my horror, all my bonnet was scratched to buggery
it looked like someone had washed the bonnet of the car with the a bloody brillo pad, i **** you not.
there were 4 new guys on Friday morning that i hadn't seen before and they looked like your a-typical disinterested chavs.
one of them must of used a washmit that had been on the floor and picked up some grit and it had been used to wash the bonnet
luckilly, the rest of the car is OK its just the bonnet that had been scratched to f*ck
needless to say i absolutely lost it and on Saturday morning i went back to the car wash and verbally tore the owner a new arsehole!!
they offered to do it again, but i didn't want them touching my car again, so I settled for some money, which i used to get some products to try and get the scratches out myself.
so on saturday i ended up using Megs scratch X, T-cut '365' paintwork perfection raidiant red restoration kit and megs carnuba wax.
so. ive spent the best part of Saturday, carefully going over all the swirl marks and did a decent job of getting the majority out.
In the daylight, it looks ok, there is just one of the major deeper scratches that if you look hard enough you can spot.
however, in the car park again tonight, under the flourescent lights you can still see a load of the scratches and even though in normal daylight they are barely visible, i know they are there and its pissing me off a little bit.
so what im asking for is, is there a fellow scn member in Manchester with a machine polisher/mop?, that would be willing to meet up and have a go on some paint correction/scratch removal on my bonnet, before i go to the extreme of taking it to a painshop and having the whole bloody bonnet resprayed?
i know having a respray is a bit extreme, but im hoping a really decent machine polish will bring out the majority of the scratches. but i dont have a machine polisher and neither does any of my mates
i'll obviously happily recompence any kind soul who offers and i'll buy them a beer.
there's no need for anyone to say i told you so regarding using hand car wash places, ive learned my lesson (the hard way)
thanks in advance folks!
on friday, before heading off to work to do my 12:30 - 20:00 shift, i decided, because i was pushed for time to take my car though the local armenian/polish hand car wash.
ive been there a few times before ande they always did a great job and are very polite and thorough
had the car cleaned, dried etc and off to work i went parked in the car park did my shift.
I returned to my car at 20:00, which by now was parked under a flourescent light in works underground car park an to my horror, all my bonnet was scratched to buggery
it looked like someone had washed the bonnet of the car with the a bloody brillo pad, i **** you not.
there were 4 new guys on Friday morning that i hadn't seen before and they looked like your a-typical disinterested chavs.
one of them must of used a washmit that had been on the floor and picked up some grit and it had been used to wash the bonnet
luckilly, the rest of the car is OK its just the bonnet that had been scratched to f*ck
needless to say i absolutely lost it and on Saturday morning i went back to the car wash and verbally tore the owner a new arsehole!!
they offered to do it again, but i didn't want them touching my car again, so I settled for some money, which i used to get some products to try and get the scratches out myself.
so on saturday i ended up using Megs scratch X, T-cut '365' paintwork perfection raidiant red restoration kit and megs carnuba wax.
so. ive spent the best part of Saturday, carefully going over all the swirl marks and did a decent job of getting the majority out.
In the daylight, it looks ok, there is just one of the major deeper scratches that if you look hard enough you can spot.
however, in the car park again tonight, under the flourescent lights you can still see a load of the scratches and even though in normal daylight they are barely visible, i know they are there and its pissing me off a little bit.
so what im asking for is, is there a fellow scn member in Manchester with a machine polisher/mop?, that would be willing to meet up and have a go on some paint correction/scratch removal on my bonnet, before i go to the extreme of taking it to a painshop and having the whole bloody bonnet resprayed?
i know having a respray is a bit extreme, but im hoping a really decent machine polish will bring out the majority of the scratches. but i dont have a machine polisher and neither does any of my mates
i'll obviously happily recompence any kind soul who offers and i'll buy them a beer.
there's no need for anyone to say i told you so regarding using hand car wash places, ive learned my lesson (the hard way)
thanks in advance folks!
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