Mazda 3 plastic paint scuff

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peytonmanning

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Hey guys,





I have a 2009 black Mazda 3 and yesterday I was back out of the drive way and didn't realize there was another car in the driveway and light scrapped up against another parked car in the driveway. This happened on the drivers side back bumper ( I think thats what its called) anyway it left some scuffs and I tried to get them out but only a little bit came out.



Does anyone know of a product that would remove the scuffs ? Since its plastic I'm not sure if there is a whole lot I can do but I figured I would post here and see what you guys have to say. I was looking into the meguiars scratch X 2.0 and I read somewhere else about a claybar that might be able to do something but I;m not totally sure.





Any imput in very much appreicated seeing as I want to get this fixed as soon as possible and not risk screwing things up more than they already are.



Thanks in adavance.
 
Is the area exhibiting any signs of "cracks" in the paint?

That is the first step to doing a correction, idendtifing if the paint is "broke-cracked" as that means a trip to a bodyshop.

Any modern clear coat compound, not the old red sand stuff, used with a towel should slowly remove the scuff.

You must then follow up by "polishing" the affected area with a modern clearcoat polish.

This removes the "abrading marks" made by the compound,(the cloudy look) restores the gloss.

Then a coat of whatever wax/sealant you use as a last coat.

Grumpy
 
I don't think there is any cracks in the paint but I'm not a body expert so I'm not totally sure. A good way of describing is it looks like steak marks. The car that I hit was another black car a 2011 ford escape to be exact. Like I said in my previous post I did do some rubbing and some of the scuff appeared like it was coming off but I was only using toilet seeing as thats the only cloth type thing I had lying around. I was only applying a limit amount of pressure because I wasn't sure if applying too much pressure might damage things worse or not.



I would upload a picture but I'm at school currently and they got all the photo sites blocked. After school I was going to head over to advanced auto parts and see if they might have something that would correct the issue.



Maybe you could suggest a product there that would work.





Thanks alot for your help. I know its difficult trying to diagnose things without a picture. ::happy:
 
What type of product should I get ? There has to be thousands of products for scratch and scuff removing. I just don't want to buy somethign that is going to make it worse then it already is. Thats all.
 
None of the major brands, that state on the label, "for clearcoats", etc are going to do damage if you read and follow their printed instructions.

Mequiar's, Mother's, 3M others, offer consumer sizes of clearcoat compounds, clearcoat polishes.

Grumpy
 
You need to determine how deep it went? If only thru the clear might be able to 'buff' it out.

If you drag your finger nail over where the 'scuff' is does it stop, or drag when hitting?

Did you leave paint on the other car? or did the other car leave paint on yours?



Snap a picture and post it up?
 
Funny. Same thing happened to me tonight and that's why I'm looking at threads like this. I'll take a picture in the morning and maybe it'll be the same thing as the OP.
 
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