Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 09:11 pm, by: Rob Charles(Pearl_white)
Hi guys,
The other day I was driving along, doing whatever it is that I do, minding my own business and so on. This bogan fool and his boyfriend in a 4WD thing were sitting up my ass being bogans, carrying on, revving their 4 cyl piece of crap, listening to ACDC, and decided to try overtake me in the emergency lane eventually (which he failed attempting as he is a bogan and I am in the V8 Soarer). He clipped my rear with his wheel or something.
Dude and his boyfriend took off - I took the rego and chased em. Decided to turn off instead of belting these inbreds.
Got home - rego was deleted from phone. I forgot to save it :/
The end result is a scrape behind the rear left wheel arch.
How would I go about fixing this without power tools as such? Anyone know which products to get?
Seems to just be rubber or what not from his oversized bogan tyre. Washing normally is not taking the material off anymore. Did get the rest of it off however (the whole side of car was black basically).
A few scratches also - don't think they are overly deep.
Monday, October 13, 2014 - 03:42 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
If that does not work, use one of the fine cut cleaners (Swirl remover, scratch X etc) and cut and polish it out. White spirits/kero etc should get it off, but as always do a small test first. I'd hate to further damage the paint.
Instead of thinners, use a car polish. Meguiars have 3 Levels of coarseness. Use the cream/tan coloured bottles, not the Red ones.
Start with the finest polish, if that does not get it off, goto the coarser one which is the orange one, do not use un-needed pressure with the orange one as this can remove coats of paint if over-done
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 08:29 am, by: Steve Latimer(Latsus)
I would suggest you 'clay bar' the area. Removes excess rubber, road grime, tar, bugs and high points on the paint work. Requires a little elbow grease.
Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 01:15 am, by: Boris Siljanoski(Z2tt)
I've repaired damage like this and worse by hand and achieved a perfect finish, it just takes longer.
You can get into a lot of trouble using a orbital buffer if you don't make much experience, you need to do it by hand to get a feel for the depth of damage otherwise you can remove too much.
Just re-read the original post cant get over the fact you said they were listening to ACDC, was it Back in Black or another song?
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 11:54 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Boris Siljanoski wrote on Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 01:15 am:
Yes that's very true, if you have more time than money decent results can be achieved by hand. An orbital buffer is definitely not something to take to your pride and joy with if you've never used one before too. Dual action buffers are much safer of course - if he can find one to use it'll save a of time.
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 11:57 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Rob Charles wrote on Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 09:42 am:
No a clay bar isn't the best way of removing this level of marking - it's for lifting fine contaminants out of the surface pores of the paint/clear coat. It'd probably get some of it off, but basically if you run your hands over your freshly cleaned car and the paint doesn't feel smooth, then it's time to clay bar it - otherwise when you wax you are just waxing in the crap, and you won't get the same depth of shine you would if you had started with a really clean surface.
Really good tip I did pick up recently with clay bars - if you drop one on the ground, don't throw it out, use it on your wheels instead - they are really good at picking up ground in brake dust.