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Accumulator · 11-20-07, 01:33

turtle- Welcome to Autopia.

AFAIK, nobody's ever found a way to polish scratches out of chrome, though some products might make them less visible. Chromium plating is just too hard to abrade smooth that way.

I have areas on the Jag where the chrome is literally worn away (from age and use) but the scratches are still there in the adjacent areas that are still plated. By the time the scratches get worn away the chrome is all gone.

A quick search on this will turn up a lot of threads where we all seemed to come to the same conclusion: marring in chrome is forever.

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Accumulator Practical Perfectionist Accumulator is online now Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 20,123	Re: taking scratches out of chrome? turtle- Welcome to Autopia. AFAIK, nobody's ever found a way to polish scratches out of chrome, though some products might make them less visible. Chromium plating is just too hard to abrade smooth that way. I have areas on the Jag where the chrome is literally worn away (from age and use) but the scratches are still there in the adjacent areas that are still plated. By the time the scratches get worn away the chrome is all gone. A quick search on this will turn up a lot of threads where we all seemed to come to the same conclusion: marring in chrome is forever.