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removing "paint scrape" from our car
Nate Nagel wrote:
On 02/19/2011 08:06 AM, hr(bob)
wrote:
On Feb 19, 6:59 am, Jeff wrote:
On 2/19/2011 7:32 AM, Ohioguy wrote:
My wife ran up against the painted wooden edge of our garage door
while backing out the car. Now we have a scraped bright green against
our dark grey, which shows up quite a bit.
I used a lot of elbow grease, plus some soap& water, hoping that it
might just be water based paint that would come off somewhat easily. It
didn't work. Then I tried mineral spirits, hoping that might take it off.
Most of the paint is on a plastic or rubber "bump guard", but a small
amount of it is on the actual driver side door.
Anyone have any suggestions on other concoctions that I might try to get
it off?
Some kind of a soft abrasive. You have a balance between taking off
the paint and scratching/dulling the finish of the car.
Try a scrubby sponge. Or perhaps try Goof Off. If that doesn't work
you'll need to polish the mark off. In the home: toothpaste. At the auto
parts sto rubbing and buffing compound.
Jeff
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What Jeff said is exactly what I would recommend
"scrubby sponge" will likely destroy the car's paint (usually they are
some flavor of scotchbrite.)
I would use polishing compound from your FLAPS followed by wax of
choice. If you don't have any and don't want to buy any for whatever
reason, Bon Ami on a damp sponge may work in a pinch.
Yep, ordinary polishing compound will do the trick. A friend had such a
paint scrape and a few minutes with polishing compound on a soft cloth
removed all of it. A pass with Meguiars glaze #7 followed by Wax #26 and
you couldn't tell there was ever any issue.
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