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Abrasives = my new best friend
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Posted by: 1969Vette

I never used abrasives before, because I thought they would wear away the paint, but since I got my daily driver neon comuter car for free I figured now was the time to test them. I don't think the car has been polished and/or waxed ever and it its hardly ever washed. My parents never wash their cars that I know of, unless they go have it done, but they are usually pretty dirty. So this, being one of thier former cars was no exception. It was covered it a large layer of dirt, grime, and dust which when washed made an extremely noticeable differance where it was washed and unwashed. There were huge scuff marks everywhere, black mainly, a couple blue, and one green... (this is a white car)... from what or where? I have no idea. Im talking BIG long scuff marks, they looked like when you scuff the floor with certain shoes and there was a bunch of them along with other things.

So as I start spraying the hose paint starts flying off my passenger door and Im like shit, but then said ah whatever after a few seconds. The paint is so bad Im suprised it lasted this long. That is the only spot where it is cracked and peeling, but it is now a fairly large spot of missing paint with grey primer showing underneath. This shows again how bad the paint was.

Ive always heard about rubbing compund and I saw it again at the store last week and was going to pick some up, but I read the label and it said it had it contained hardcore abrasives or whatever and it could cause you to wear the paint down to nothing if you use too much pressure or go over the area too much.... so then I saw polishing compound 'and scratch remover' right next to it and read it... it said contains mild abrasives, so I went with that.

Anyway the reason I wanted it in the first place is because the hood has extremely hardcore amounts of scratches and I didnt even think about all the scuffs on the sides and elsewhere.... I can say it is not fun and takes ALOT of energy to use it but it works wonders. It didnt do anything noticeable for the cratches on the hood, but all the scuff marks that I thought were permanent are now gone and it actually does look like a showroom shine like the container says. minus the scratches and the stuff I didnt want to waste more energy on. Im going to go to the store and get rubbing compound here after I finish this post. Hopefully that will work on the hood scratches and also make getting the scuff marks off alot easier.

Im posting this for anyone afraid to use abrasives.... they are MUCH MUCH better than just covering up imperfections. They clean the paint very nicely, REMOVE the imperfections, not cover them up so that they reappear in a few days. With the polishing compound small scratches are now gone, the paint is much cleaner, all the big scuffs are gone, the tar is gone, the little rust colored dots are gone, the bugs are gone, etc.

now Im on to get the rubbing compound which will hopefully take out the larger scratches and make all that other stuff I said alot easier.

and yes this is turtle wax polishing compound that everyone says sucks, and yes it was only like $2. a ton of elbow grease, but very very good results... testing rubbing compund next for hopefully less elbow grease and better results on the larger scratches..

Do not fear abrasives!!!!

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