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Really sorry to hear that! I have a couple of parking rashes on mine from people unfamiliar with parallel parking which I've come to terms with, but keying a clearly expensive paint job is below the belt. FWIW I've left mine on the car as battle scars as I plan to keep it for a while anyway!
 
Got quoted for £2.8K to fix as they have to colour match so that means doors, sills the whole lot! :( So I will try the method with a DA polisher & paint a line of paint into the damage first then polish & buff & try to conceal :eek:

If it does not work out then they will have to respray the lot :mad:
 
AWPC said:
Got quoted for £2.8K to fix as they have to colour match so that means doors, sills the whole lot! :( So I will try the method with a DA polisher & paint a line of paint into the damage first then polish & buff & try to conceal :eek:

If it does not work out then they will have to respray the lot :mad:
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wow

they look too deep for a DA polisher
a polisher is NOT designed for those type of scratches

cars worth a lot, get it done properly
 
AWPC said:
Got quoted for £2.8K to fix as they have to colour match so that means doors, sills the whole lot! :( So I will try the method with a DA polisher & paint a line of paint into the damage first then polish & buff & try to conceal :eek:

If it does not work out then they will have to respray the lot :mad:
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Not sure where you are located but I have a Das 6 you could borrow, if you go down that route. I am in Hertfordshire.

However, you can get a whole polishing kit with various pads and what not for circa £160, which might be better bet as I dont have any pads or polish left. :cry:

Unsure it would work on deep scratches though, I tried to polish out a deep scratch on our lease BMW when it went back and it was still there. Though far less noticeable and I didn't get charged for it.
 
ShiWarrior said:
wow

they look too deep for a DA polisher
a polisher is NOT designed for those type of scratches

cars worth a lot, get it done properly
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First I will try the paint a thin line in the scratch method & polish as that's £150 vs several thousands! Some of the scratches are not very deep if I can at least conceal the fuel cap panel scratches that saves £1.5K alone as removes the needs to paint the entire side of the car!

If not I only lost £150. I am starting to think cheaper to wrap the entire car that's only £2.5K for a decent job vs same for paint respray & the wrap can be easily replaced unlike the paint job!

Not too keen on destroying the still perfect factory finish on the 2 doors, sill & front wing just for a tiny area around the lower fuel cap panel! It seems excessive & still no absolute guarantee it will be an overall great match either!!
 
AWPC said:
First I will try the paint a thin line in the scratch method & polish as that's £150 vs several thousands! Some of the scratches are not very deep if I can at least conceal the fuel cap panel scratches that saves £1.5K alone as removes the needs to paint the entire side of the car!

If not I only lost £150. I am starting to think cheaper to wrap the entire car that's only £2.5K for a decent job vs same for paint respray & the wrap can be easily replaced unlike the paint job!

Not too keen on destroying the still perfect factory finish on the 2 doors, sill & front wing just for a tiny area around the lower fuel cap panel! It seems excessive & still no absolute guarantee it will be an overall great match either!!
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please watch the video before doing anything, Chris explains a LOT, and there's a lot more to it
 
chroniclard said:
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Not sure where you are located but I have a Das 6 you could borrow, if you go down that route. I am in Hertfordshire.

However, you can get a whole polishing kit with various pads and what not for circa £160, which might be better bet as I dont have any pads or polish left. :cry:

Unsure it would work on deep scratches though, I tried to polish out a deep scratch on our lease BMW when it went back and it was still there. Though far less noticeable and I didn't get charged for it.
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Thanks for the kind offer mate :) I have just bought a Draper for £70 new (exact same model as the DA6!!). The method I have seen to conceal scratches is paint a very thin line of premixed colour matched pearlescent gently into the scratch. Then leave to dry for about a day. Then you gently wet sand it until its smooth & use the DA to polish & buff will conceal most of the damage.

Its not like I have much choice at this stage£ £2.7K to paint the entire side of the car is excessive as they cannot colour match the paint finish without painting panels that do not need painting :( be cheaper to get it wrapped!
 
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Watch this one please
www.youtube.com

Deep Scratch Removal Without Spraying

A step by step tutorial of a very effective method to remove DEEP paintwork scratches that CANNOT be removed by sanding and or/polishing alone!Using solvent ...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
He shows the exact method I wish to use as it's on a british metallic racing green jaguar. The final finish is not bad as it conceals it from most angles. My scratches are not anywhere near as bad as his BTW they are mainly clearcoat!! The guy who made the video has now been hired by a prestige car dealership he no longer makes much content. I bought the complete kit of brushes from his website as well as the premixed colour matched pearlescent with hardener & top coat premixed so you just apply let it dry & rub down then polish at the end & repeat again if it does not give the required results.

All I have to lose is £150 vs the thousands it costs to get the entire car side painted. So for me if it looks worse I have lost nothing much as it still needs doing regardless. I think I can at least conceal the 3 scratches near to the fuel cap panel as in direct sunlight only 1 scratch is deep enough to put your fingernail down (the car was coated with GardX by Renault which is a hard ceramic coating so that might have saved a little damage).
 
chroniclard said:
Well good luck with it, hope it turns out well. I would sulking for weeks someone did that. :(
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Thanks mate. :)

I am well gutted mate but it's happened nothing I can do about that I have accepted if I cannot DIY it's going to cost £3k as I need to get the car 200 miles to the only workshop who can colourmatch a Renaultsport it seems! Seems cheaper to just get a fancy wrap instead if that's the end result as nothing to stop it happening again is there!
 
ummm, need advice here

first time i clayed my windscreen and applied Glaco
left it for 5 mins, went to wipe it off and all i had left was loads of squares of it, so i think i applied to thick, and its was dry already
rushed back indoors to soak a microfiber towel, that didn't work to get it off, so i re clayed it, again didn't work

now I've got lots of juddering from my wipers and square blocks on the screen (although you cant see it right now, but when you say clean it, you will)
 
Got my DA Polisher today & managed to conceal some of the scratches so they are no longer easily visible at all so pleased with that :) and also managed to make some of the others go away completely so I am left with only 2 problem ones which need a thin line of paint applied (when it arrives!) then buffed & polished away I hope!

The ones I have left are 1 on the petrol cap panel which is about 2" long & needs a very small amount of paint pushing into it. Then the other remaining one is perhaps 5" long on the side of the top right rear bumper corner. It's not deep at all I might even be able to conceal it using the most coarse polishing pad I have.
 
ShiWarrior said:
ummm, need advice here

first time i clayed my windscreen and applied Glaco
left it for 5 mins, went to wipe it off and all i had left was loads of squares of it, so i think i applied to thick, and its was dry already
rushed back indoors to soak a microfiber towel, that didn't work to get it off, so i re clayed it, again didn't work

now I've got lots of juddering from my wipers and square blocks on the screen (although you cant see it right now, but when you say clean it, you will)
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Maybe a strong degreaser applied to the windscreen in an attempt to remove the coating? I have heard wiper judder can be exacerbated by these kind of products ie rain-x etc

Seemed fine for me but i have experienced judder. Perhaps its over applying a coating that causes it? As i had thought a couple of coats gives a better application.
 
You'll most likely need to compound that glass coating off, a high cut compound and a polisher. Could try the CarPro ceriglass kit or the glaco compound for manual options if you don't have a polisher.
 
Clay isn't that abrasive, clay is great at pulling surface contamination off clear coat and ensuring you have a clean surface to then use a compound to cut away at clear coat. You need something that's going to break that coating down, and clay won't do that.
 
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