Our Mustang has a **** load of scratches in it and I couldnt get them out. I really dont want to use compound on it since I think its a single stage paint job. Putting a clear coat over it is out of hte question. I read that a glaze will help remove the the scratches. I was looking at the Mother's California Gold 3 step process but I dont know if thats what I really need. I will have to order it off the internet so I want to be 100% sure its what I need. I also need to know if I can apply it using a Porter Cable DAP. If there is any other brands out there that is better I might consider them but they cant be god-awful expensive.

Heres a link to the mother's 3-stage system.

http://store.mothers.com/product_inf...products_id=44

 

Do the first two stages of the mother's system. Next buy an actual glaze i.e. Wolfgang, Klasse, Pinnacle, Meguiar's #7. Then, follow that up with a NXT or carnuba.

 

A glaze won't help remove the scratches.

Use a very fine compound and you won't remove enough paint to even blink at.

You just need to smooth the edges of all the scratches so they can be hidden.

 

Is there somekind of extra fine cut compound out there? I pulled a part off the paint off once with some tape and it was really thin. It was in the door jamb so that might be the reason. I just dont want to risk going through the newer paint job.

 

3M makes an extra-fine compound that works on any 1200-grit scratch and finer. Pep-Boys and any automotive paint supply store carries it. One thing,, put your finger perpendicular to the surface and run your nail back and forth over the scratch. If your nail catches in the scratch, no compound in the world will get them out....will have to be resprayed.







if you pick this up at pep boys, the bottle will be squared off and the label is medium blue with white text.

 

They not deep. You can only see them when the light hits them. If you look across the surface you dont see them. You have to have light reflecting off them.

 

Boss-E-mail me. I can get you a light abbrasive for a pretty good price. If you can just see them in a certain light it sounds like you just have some swirls or fine scratches that can be fixed. Do you have a buffer by a chance?

 

I wouldn't bother with them, call them battlefield scars. Some scratches are just not worth the effort it takes or the damage to the paint. Any and I mean any scratch that is in paint big or small means you have to take away paint in order to smooth it out. That's how we buff out scratches by removing paint down to the layer of the scratch. Just keep wax on the car and it will hide most of them. You'll only really see fine scratches when the wax dries up or in direct light if your looking for them

 

A glaze will help fill spiderwebbing (which it sounds like is the case), and would probably be safest to use if there's a question about the paint's integrity.

For addressing small areas or individual scratches, use a scratch remover.

That 3-step system is an excellent choice, by the way... easy to use by hand... it's an old favorite of mine.

 

Ill see if I can get a picture of what they look like to help clarify the problema little bit but I dont know if the camera will pick them up.

EDIT: Just tried to get a picture and the camera didnt pick them up. They are really hard to see. I had to get down at certain angle where the flourescent lights reflected right close to the scratches to see them.