Braille Parking Technique and My Paint Job!

[MAZ!]

People - I have the joy of parking my Chimp on the street, in the last 8 months I have endured the gut wrenching problem that every man and his dog has used my car to park up against with the traditional bumper to bumper technique ...... the consequence is untold scuffs to the paint job across the bonnet and the rear molding!

Anyone got any suggestions, knowledge what I can do to polish, cut these out? ...... or do I have to go the paint shop route?

[plotloss]

Depending on how deep they are:

Get down a bodyshop suppliers and get yourself some G3 rubbing compound and some 3M machine polish (dont worry it can be used by hand).

Be VERY careful with it though. The G3 compound is a fairly heavy cut and will move paint around on the GRP, so its useful for filling in small scratches. Always keep it wet with the machine polish and dont let it dry on the car, it sticks.

Apart from the caveats of useage its a wicked product.

Matt.

[MAZ!]

Plotloss - don't suppose Halfords or the like have this stuff do they .... cheers

PS .... plotloss ..... is there a story behind that name?

[manek]

I had this problem -- I [cough] acquired a road cone and plonked it in front of the car. Within a fortnight, some scrote had nicked it but, while it was there, it worked. In retrospect, I'd tie it to the front grille or something.

Worth considering?

[trefor]

manek said: I had this problem -- I [cough] acquired a road cone and plonked it in front of the car. Within a fortnight, some scrote had nicked it but, while it was there, it worked. In retrospect, I'd tie it to the front grille or something.

Worth considering?

Then they'd take the car with the cone

[squirrelz]

trefor said:
Then they'd take the car with the cone

...and you'd find it on top of a fcukin lamp post

[ribol]

3M used to and probably still do a product called "hand glaze" (brilliant stuff), very good for light scratches, only available within the Motor Trade. The next best available out of the trade is "paint renovator" by Autoglym and available in any decent spares shop, failing that all branches of Halfwits. Forget T-cut.

Both are fine abrasives, check out what paint finish you have before using any abrasive polishes. If not sure try it somewhere it will not hurt if it does any damage to the finish (under bonnet somewhere?).

Ivan