Scratch removal advice (PICS, beware 56K)

[ForceFed4]

Hello,



This might belong more in the University section of the site, but I wasn`t sure so I put it here.



For various reasons, I just got around to doing my first thorough detail/wax of my car since the winter, and have discovered/determined the severity of a couple of scratches picked up over the last few months.



I`ll include some pictures below, and I`m wondering what the best way to deal with them is.



There`s two noticible ones, both of which I can feel with my fingernail.



The first is a white thin line near my taillight, the other is a paint smear from someone else`s door ( :angry ) on my driver`s door.



Coming frlom a background of no experience fixing blemishes on my own, and not owning a PC, what can I do about these on my own? (If anything?)

[ForceFed4]

Pic of the door blemish:

[ForceFed4]

Final picture of the door, little further away this time:

[imported_Greg]

The paint transfer will easily come off with something like Scratch-X and a terry towel or applicator. The ones you can feel with your fingernail, you can try to get paint to match to fill it in from www.paintscratch.com, but if you want it to look perfect, a trip to the body shop might be in order since the scratch is down to the primer.

[havabooz]

the blemish you have on the door actually looks like something i just noticed on my hood....its like a tiny dent and the paint has the effect that you show in the picture



thats called paint transfer??

[jasonatv22]

Clay the transferred paint. You`ll use hardly any, not even the size of a grape, so if you can just bum a micro-clab off someone, you wouldn`t need to buy a box of it.



If it`s not paint, but an abraision of your clear, yeah, some glaze or ScratchX or similar.



Scratches...hard to tell. Keeping my mouth shut on that.

[04BlackAV]

Yeah the door looks like what my wife get`s all the time.I keep telling her to pay attention where she parks.I`ve also had some luck removing with clay and some Scratch X.

[ForceFed4]

Thanks for the advice; the whole car should probably be clayed anyway, so I`ll look into getting some of that. I have ScratchX already, but haven`t tried it yet. We`ll see.



havabooz: I`m pretty sure mine is paint transfer, yes, from a burgundy/dark red car.



I`m not sure how you`d get that on your hood though, it`s not a typical place for door dings?

[havabooz]

im an idiot...it cant be paint transfer....something must have hit my hood on the highway...its a tiny dent and some sort of scuff on top...ill try the clay...depending on what hit my car it might work

[breakneckvtec]

I would try clay then move to polish





And, this is a shot in the dark, but is that a world rally blue WRX?

[Blue-Sun]

welcome to the world of owning a WRB subaru. when I had my WRX in that same color, literally everytime I washed it, I noticed a new scratch, dent or paint blemish.



Partially why I ended up getting rid of that car. I think it had close to 9-10 dents in it in owning it 18 months or so?