James -
Your best bet is to get some clear coat in liquid form, and first paint it
into the scratch. Wait for that to dry, then, starting with a color sanding
paper (1000 grit or higher), use a flat sanding block to flatten out the
hand painted clear coat in the scratch. Then after that's done, finish it
first with rubbing compound, moving to polishing compound (both by hand),
and then ideally finishing with a fine polishing compound on a hand-wheel
polisher. That should get it pretty close back to normal. It's alot of work,
but it can look nice.
You don't want to polish out the scratch without first filling it in
because you will remove the clear coat on your car... it won't look very
good!
Your other option is to just take it to a good paint detailing specialist
and he can do all of this work for you... some good detailers can hide the
scratch so well you'd never know... and the best thing about it is you can
probably have the guy detail the paint on your whole car.... trust me it can
make your car look like it got a new paint job.
Also you should find the person who keyed your car, and shoot them!
Cheers,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
On 11/22/05, James Lea <clocks@midcoast.com> wrote:
>
> Last Saturday someone keyed the car across the bonnet. It's not very deep
> and looks like maybe it only went through the clear coat. Is there a
> product
> that might buff out the scratch? Thanks, JL
>
> James Lea
> 2 West St. PO Box 25
> Rockport Maine 04856
>
> 1952 MG TD Vintage Racer
> 1953 Triumph Mayflower
> 1958 Rover P4
> 1962 Austin Healey 3000 BT7
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