polishing new paint.

[tvrgit]

Got the S back on Friday with a nice new front end, all freshly painted and looking nice.

This morning I discovered it had been bird-bombed overnight, right in the dead centre of the new bonnet - I washed it off but the paint is badly marked, this bird must have been eating nitromors, battery acid and builders sand, judging by the state of the paint..

Now on older paint, I would get the orbital polisher out and the meguiars 3-stage polish system, and polish it off - but what do you do when the paint is new? You're not supposed to wax it for a couple of months.

I think the safest thing to do is to leave it and then polish it once the paint has cured. Is there any other way to remove this etched-in mark more quickly?

[tvrgit]

Interesting site!

Unfortunately you are a few hundred miles from me, so unless you do long-distance visits...

The paint shop has agreed to buff it out for me if I take the car in - Once the paint has hardened I'll polish and wax it properly to protect it a bit.