white marks on paintwork

sburn · 24-03-2011 01:58PM #1

Hey all

just wondering if there was something i could get to remove white marks in 03 passat, quite a few marks around car not disappearing after car is washed, some of them are kids handprints, any help greatly appreciated
thanks

voxpop · 24-03-2011 02:09PM

get some meguires paint cleaner or similar (halfords have it) and polish it out.

Owen · 24-03-2011 06:26PM

You've got two different paint defects there, the handprints (Most likely due to sunscreen, or sudocream on hands), and the scratches. You'll get the sunscreen out with a good paint cleaner, but the scratches may still be there. Drag your nail across them, if your nail goes down even the slightest, they won't polish out. If it doesn't, a good machine polish will get them out - doing it by hand won't do a whole lot and will tire you out after 15/30 minutes.

sburn · 25-03-2011 01:43PM

thanks for the replies, halfords was out of the meguiars cleaner gave me this stuff instead
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370483856997
would it do the same job? The scratch is catching on fingernail alright, would the above cleaner be suitable with power buffer aswell

voxpop · 25-03-2011 02:25PM

The general rule is : If your nail catches you cant polish the scratch out. However if your nail does catch then a buffer can still round off the edges of a scratch so make it less noticeable.

T-cut wont really remove scratches but it might fill them and again make it less noticeable.

Btw - If you are gonna use a machine - be careful not to burn the paint or use a DA rather than rotary

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