I have noticed that my car has been getting more and more of those tiny swirls and scratches in the clearcoat that are unavoidable, but look like crap on a red car.

Has anyone found a product like a scratch doctor or any others that works well at eliminating these scratches?

 

buff and polish all day long, buff and polish while you sing this song.

 

me too! hope anyone has an answer to this! good post vtecduster!

 

iirc, a claybar will help remove the debris that caus alot of the swirls. use a clay bar then buff again with a brand new cloth. OR, instead of using a buffer...buff by hand, in one constant direction (i.e. front to back)

 

if you think its bad on a red car...then its 900 times worse on my black one. it seriously takes me 8 hours each week to clean, buff, and wax.

 

ya hes right, your swirls come from debris in your clothes, wash mits and just plain stuck in the paint. clay bar at least 2 times a year and make sure when you ever touch the paint is to stay in 1 direction, back and forth. no circles


circles=swirls

 

when you buff the car, are you using any product besides the pad involved?

 

**** you think your Red Car is bad My Black SS/SC looks like I rubbed a brillo pad on it when the sun shines on it.

you should take it to a detail shop and have it clayed that will probably take out most of the scratchs I am going to do that in the Spring when it starts to get a little warmer out.

 

what does clayed mean?

 

Something to do with American Idol....

 

Meguires sells a clay bar which takes out most of the impuities in your paint such as sap, minor swirl marks and scratches.

You use that and follow up with a good wax your **** is sparkling like it right off the show room floor.

 

claying the car wont remove scratches. It only removes contaminents from the clearcoat.

 

Buy a porter cable DA polisher, some high quality pads (I use edge 2000 and Lake Country pads) and some good quality polish. Always use the lesser of abrasives when it comes to the pads and polishes...if it doesn't clear up any swirls then move on to a more abrasive pad/polish combo. Follow up with a finishing polish then wax.


Of course...this is after you wash/clay/dry your vehicle.

 

go to the store and buy mothers california gold carnauba cleaner wax it does the job then after that go buy some finish wax or whatever its called and youll be set

 

Mother's Stage 1
Meguires Swirl Remover 2.0
Mother's Stage 3

Apply them and take them off in that order and you'll have this:

 

There is a lot of misinformation going down in this thread. Claying will not remove swirls and the guy spending 8 hours weekly buffing is going to be looking at bare metal by christmas.

I would do a nice long write up on car care but I have a meeting in 8 minutes. So I suggest everyone head over to http://www.autopia.org/ Download the car care guide found here http://autopia-carcare.com/freeguide.html and that will get you started.

 

Cough....Zaino....Cough

 

Meguires Swirl Remover 2.0 works very good!!

 

If you need proof of the work here you go:

before:





after:





I did this practicing on my Dad's Cherokee. Half the hood was left untouched (passenger side), the other half (driver side) was treated via the method I mentioned above. This was only one thorough pass, it took about three passes to completely remove the swirl marks.

Hope this helps.

 

I will say for older cars I have used cornstarch, for the swirls. As far as the scratches, somebody else will have to answer

 

nice! thanks i will be looking into getting this stuf. i will have a new car again.

 

It is simpler than all of those suggestions. Drive to a great bodyshop and tell them to repaint the car using "good paint" and many coats of "good clear coat"