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polishing out scratches? - Monyx - 11-04-2008
Some fucktoid scratched my rear seat cover today while bike parked all day at work. It's mostly cleaned with bit or cut and polish, I'm just anal and want it back to new! Any advice, the problem area is obviously more than scuff, a little scratch into the plastic, but not deep.
Geezus this pisses me off, I arrive at 7:40am and park well over to one side, right close the gutter in a street bike-parking bay. seems like rack, indicator or something from someone's heap.
Mark
RE: polishing out scratches? - Pommie - 12-04-2008
Turtle wax have a product called colour cure. Wax coloured polish with a wax stick for filling small scratches. You fill the scratch with the wax stick and polish over the top. May work for you, depending on how deep and big the scratch is. Comes in different colours
RE: polishing out scratches? - Madmax - 12-04-2008
Monyx Wrote:Some fucktoid scratched my rear seat cover today while bike parked all day at work. It's mostly cleaned with bit or cut and polish, I'm just anal and want it back to new! Any advice, the problem area is obviously more than scuff, a little scratch into the plastic, but not deep.
Geezus this pisses me off, I arrive at 7:40am and park well over to one side, right close the gutter in a street bike-parking bay. seems like rack, indicator or something from someone's heap.
Mark
i've got some top shit over here Markus that may help.
When you're ready.
Max
RE: polishing out scratches? - Busdriver - 14-04-2008
You may have to use some wet and dry. Working you way up to finer grit paper and expanding the area you are sanding to blend it in. Then polish.
Don't start with anything too coarse. Unless it's a fuggen deep scratch.
RE: polishing out scratches? - Monyx - 19-04-2008
Thanks blokes - paid a visit to Paul out at Redback racepaints - nothing I couldn't have a go at I spose but naturally I got nothing in the shed nor the knowledge/technique. Service while I waited, coupla different tubes of stuff applied, 3000 wet block, two buffing wheels (he mentioned need heat which is not generated by hand polishing). I was lucky...must've had 0.5mm of the 1mm clear coat left to play with 'cos back to new which is good as the blue-pearl in the black would be hard to match on the K5 black/silvers.