I'm washing the car this morning and noticed this.


The good thing is you have to get real close to notice it. Am I gonna have to repaint the entire hood?

 

Do you have stray cats where you live?

 

ya looks like cat claws

 

There is this one cat that hangs out in my front yard during the afternoon. I guess I'm gonna have to put him down when I see him.

 

Uhhhhh

 

If you do this....

Then his buddy will do this...

You need to mess with him, till he does this...

 

If you run your fingernail accross those scratches does it catch? If yes, then the scratches are probably too deep to polish out.

BUT you might be able to minimize the scratches to a point where too small to consider repainting.

 

^^LMAO i hate those fvcking cats, they use the bottom of my bumper as
a scratching post,and there are always paw prints on my hood every morning!

 

 

You might be able to polish them out pretty much. Try using a scratch remover/compound. then polish with a finishing polish and wax. I'm sure most of the scratches will fade into the paint.

 

I ran my fingers across the scratches. They felt bumpy. Not sure what you mean by 'catch'. Where can I buy scratch removing products. I don't think I'll polish it, or wax at this time, but I can try applying the scratch remover thing.

 

if you run your finger nail across it and it gets kind of 'stuck' (like with a small amount of force it still stays there) rather than just gliding across it smoothly, then its gone down to the bare metal. If your finger doesn't really get caught, then the scratch can probably be removed by polishing.

 

IMHO, using a scratch remover either won't help much or will make more scratches than it fixes (smaller ones though).

I'd get a professional detailer that knows how to use a rotary polisher to work on it.

 

I agree. You'll likely need a machine polsher to get those scratches gone. Having a detailer do it though might not be the best solution though. IME good detailers are hard to find and there are WAY more bad ones than good ones out there.

The good news is that for about the price of what a good detailer would charge you for one full detail you could put together a pretty decent kit which includes a buffer like the PC 7424. This would buy you enough supplies to detail your own car multiple times and it's easy to do.

 

that's true, but if you don't know what you're doing you might spend all this money and not get the desired results and you'll just end up getting frustrated (i'm speaking from experience).

So far I haven't found a good detailer tho so the stuff I couldn't get out is still there and driving me nuts.