Had a scratch on my door, perhaps bigger problems now

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cloroxbleach4

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This is the original scratch



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So, I used the Scratch X to buff out the scratch. Then decided to put some touch up paint on the scratch which was the one i purchased from the dealer. I then used a dupli color aerosol clear coat which I did not use a template.



I then wetsanded the scratch with 3000 grit paper on the scratch then used a polish and scratch x after it.



I noticed the weird clear coat haze/rough area so i decided to go ahead and lightly sand those areas. And did the polish and scratch x after that.



This is where I am at now.



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The polish i used was Meguires Mirror Glaze Show Car 7



I was told that I need to use a compound and different levels of polish. I was hoping to find which products you recommend and if this is even fixable by them.
 
Are you doing this by hand or machine?



Mirror Glaze I don't think is much of a polish. It's a glaze with fillers to hide defects.
 
You'll never take out sand scratches with #7...any way you look at it that should have been used after the ScratchX. By hand it's going to take a lot of elbow grease to clean that up. ScratchX has been reformulated at least once; I'm not sure what version you have. Go back to Wal-Mart and get some Ultimate Compound and some SwirlX, and use the Ultimate Compound until you get the shine back, then refine it with the SwirlX.



DISCLAIMER: I'm not really clear on what you did or how much you sanded off. It's possible you've already damaged your paint, and that you won't be able to make it any better, and/or that further polishing may reveal/cause damge to the clearcoat. Anyway, good luck.
 
cloroxbleach4- As noted, it's hard to diagnose this stuff over the internet..but yeah, you appear to have the normal effects of having wetsanded. You just need to use something sufficiently abrasive to bring back the gloss.



Get the Ultimate Compound (*DO NOT* buy some other rubbing compound as a substitute, get *only* the Meguiar's Ultimate Compound!) and then follow that with Scratch-X or Swirl-X. See how it looks then.



[Insert lecture here about doing stuff without a complete understanding of what you're doing ;) ]



Oh, and Welcome to Autopia! I'm fairly confident that things'll look OK after you use the Ultimate Compound and the Scratch-x, and I hope you didn't take my "Insert lecture..." comment as being overly critical.
 
Are you sure that it was even a scratch in the first place? From that first picture, it just looks like paint transfer from another object. Doesn't matter now, I suppose. Good luck!
 
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