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Discover The Easy Way To Fix A Scratch On Your Car - Spray Paint Touch Up Paint Repair By Mario Goldstein On any car, truck, or SUV, you have 4 layers that the scratch can go into. The Clear coat being the first, second is the color layer, third is the primer, and fourth is the steel.
No scratch is the same, each are different and unique in their own way. Sometimes a scratch is not really a scratch. If the object that has rubbed up against your car is softer than the paint on the car, it will put a special material on the paint surface. Leaving a mark that is raised above the paint, it is not gouged in to the paint itself. If the item is harder than the paint, the paint goes onto the item that hit the car.
Most marks that are left on cars, only scratch the clear coat and the color layer. When this happens you can usually get the scratch out with some buffing and waxing and a little sanding. If it goes any down to the primer and steel level, the scratch then becomes harder to get out and usually has to be professionally done. Most people make the mistake of taking the car to the mechanic to see how bad the scratch is but an experience person in the car field will tell you this, if you take your fingernail and go over the scratch at a ninety-degree angle, it will defect wither or not the scratch is setting at the clear coat and color level or if it is grounded into your vehicle. If the mark comes from rubber, plastic or another color of paint, you can rub it off with an aerosol tar or adhesive remover product.
When you cannot get the mark to come out you can try to remove it with acetone or lacquer (a basic acetone; aka nail polish remover) and a soft rag will get the mark off. If that stupid mark is still there you are going to have start hand rubbing and polishing. To repair a scratch, wash your car or the side that needs it, down with soap and water. When start drying the vehicle off, make sure that it is good and dry or this method given will not work. This is not going to remove the scratch, but it will make less or not noticeable at all.
Use black shoe polish to fill in the scratch, or any other color you prefer. Once you have put the shoe polish into the scratch, sand down the remaining material on the paint surface of your vehicle. Do not use a rough sand paper grinder. Use a two thousand to three thousand grit wet or dry sandpaper, depending on your preference. Place the sand paper in a bowl of cold water and add three or four drops of dish soap to the water to give it more slip and increase the corrective-ness of the cutting action to get what you need.
While sanding use a sixty degree angle and move up and down the length of the scratch. Stop after 4 or 5 sweeps to wash off the sand paper. You are going to do this until the bl! ack shoe polish goes away. Once the scratch is removed, let the sanded area dry and then look over the area you sanded for any signs of the removed scratch. If no signs of the scratch are there, you may paint over it with a clear coat. If you did not sand down to the primer layers you can buff the area with a rubbing compound and soft washcloth. Once
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