Use scratch remover to polish

[DarrenJ]

Hi just said I'd let ye know that I use scratch remover when polishing the car. I put some on a cloth and apply it generously to an area, reasonably small area, leave it to dry and then I slowly polish.

The fine grains in the scratch remover will cut through the oxidised layer on the paint and lacquer and I even use it to cut through tar, so you can kill two birds with the one stone.

Give it a go. I found it worked particularly well for the lower parts of the door and the skirting where the area was caked with tar.

 

[jonjay]

What scratch remover did you use? I would not advise leaving a product to dry on the car as you when you work it in you will cause finer scratches and swirling.

 

[vroomtshh]

Any scratch remover I've ever tried (t-cut stuff and megs scratch x) would swirl the car to hell if you used it like that.

I'd rather go for a filler heavy polish if only working by hand. Something like black hole or srp

 

[n_d_fox]

A lot of the Poorboys SSR range can be used to good effect by hand as well... although i do agree that if you are unable to machine polish using a filler heavy product by hand would be the best way to go.

I made the mistake once of using a scratch remover product to get rid of a scuff on the back bumper from a traffic cone i had reversed into... then spent an hour with the G220 and cutting pads / compounds trying to remove the marks that left !

 

[fuzzy232]

What's best to remove swirls ?

 

[jonjay]

What's best to remove swirls ?

Depends on what car, what paint, what tools, how much time you got, money....

 

[fuzzy232]

My freshly painted Ibiza in ovnia yellow, already wet flatter and cut compound and polished it but still see light swirls on direct sunlight

 

[n_d_fox]

Polishing by hand or machine ?

 

[Naz]

ive used Meguirs Paint Cleaner and it seems to remove the swirls on mine, (stage 1 of Megs Deep CLean)

if the panels are rough to the touch, you could try a Clay Bar kit first.

made an amazing difference on my 98 Cordy when used for the first time.

Made it a breeze to polish since

 

[fuzzy232]

Polishing by hand or machine ?

machine using meguairs cutting wool pad and polished with meguairs diamond foam pad

 

[n_d_fox]

I'm going to suggest that you may have gone too heavy with the cutting then using the wool and diamond cutting pads. Although this will get rid of the deeper swirls and scratches it will also create some damage of its own... essentially your cutting down through the clearcoat to remove the scratches etc in the layers above but leaving marks from the pad / polish used.

You would then have to follow this with another polishing stage to get rid of the marks left by the aggressive polishing already completed. This would probably be done with a polishing pad and a medium grade compound.

It could be that you clean glaze or cleanse the paint with a 3rd stage using a finishing pad and something like Zaino ZAIO or DoDo Juice Lime Prime or Need for Speed or Megs #80

 

[fuzzy232]

thanks for the info mate , what finishing pad would you recommend ?

 

[n_d_fox]

My favourite is the blue 3M finishing pad but i also use the Megs finishing pads if i need a slightly firmer one.

 

[fuzzy232]

Got my self what you recommended . Will give it ago soon and post pics of results