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Old 24th May 2008, 19:26   #1 (permalink)
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These scratches are on the bumper. Just hours after I removed this picture some kid has gone and dashed his cycle into my car and left a deep scratch on the metal part above the front left side wheel. I can feel the scratch with my finger and can see the white metal below.. I dont have a pic of that scratch right now. will upload that soon too.

The car is colored black. how to save my car from being mauled by these little human by-products !!!!
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Old 24th May 2008, 23:45   #2 (permalink)
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You could try a rubbing compound to see if that reduces how visible the scratches are but from the pictures you have posted, the only way to remove them completely would be repaint the entire bumper. Hope that helps.
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take some paint and do touching over scratch with a small piece of cloth or small paint brush. let it dry and use rubbing compound after one day . it will make the scratch invisible to large extent.
note: only fill scratch dont apply paint over whole area but fill colour in scratch.
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For the scratches in metal part you can try some agressive rubbing compound.If the scratch upto bare metal , the only solution is use of touch up paint.Otherwish you can try "Scratch X" , a product from Meguiars, No 1 in car care product. For more details of the product and its uses refer to their web site Car Care Products: Car Waxes to Leather Cleaners, Meguiar's the Leader in Car and Surface Care since 1901.

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rubbing compound are only helpful if scracth is on paint surface . but from picture we can see that the paint has been scratched and surface below paint can be seen therefore rubbing compound will not be helpful try touch up
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rubbing compound are only helpful if scracth is on paint surface . but from picture we can see that the paint has been scratched and surface below paint can be seen therefore rubbing compound will not be helpful try touch up

Also since the colour is black, rubbing it out will make it kind of hazy.

But try with a very light rubbing compount (water based) from 3M.
Be gentle don't try to rub it all out in the first try.
Then apply wax and then some polish like Formula1 or turtle wax.

Grr...

I hate ppl who are ignorant enough to scratch cars.
I see a lot of ppl like that in our parking lot.
There should a law for that I guess.

If all this does't help have to paint I guess.
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I hate ppl who are ignorant enough to scratch cars.
I see a lot of ppl like that in our parking lot.
There should a law for that I guess.
these people are arnd 2.5 feet tall and if you try to warn them ..their parents come out and make a tamasha asking where else will the children play!!! ...Well not too close to my car doesnt seem to go down well with them!!!

and yes ...there should be a law
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my bad, the pics are of old scratch
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