How NOT to add white highlights:

**Nexus** · 21-12-2010, 12:35 PM

Courtesy of local tradie who dumped a load of paint on the road just before I changed lanes into it.
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Too much traffic to see it before it was too late:
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Went straight to local detailer where we spent an hour cleaning the already touch dry paint off with an appropriate solvent, a gurney, and elbow grease. No idea what sort of paint it was. White.
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It came off. BUT now have lots of fine scratches down one side of the vehicle. Not too bad but it looks like someone has ****ed the paint cleaning it - presumably tiny flecks of dry paint have come off and then scratched the surface.

So now I want to try to recover the paint condition, which although I'm not an obsessive cleaner, was quite good - I managed to put similar marks on my SP23 once learning to clean it properly, so until now I'd managed to avoid any glaring swirls etc.

It's clean, and waiting for a wash and surface prep, which I am going to do this evening, followed by a thorough application of meguiars tech wax...

Reccommendations on procedure to get best result appreciated. Steps above and beyond shampoo + "claybar" + speed detail + wax or specific products to mask the fine scratching...

I have on hand to work with :

small amount of bug and tar remover
meguiars shampoo and conditioner
turtle wax liquid claybar
meguiars speed detailer
meguiars tech wax
meguiars gold wax

**Toddy22587** · 21-12-2010, 02:41 PM

Unlucky mate. I would be so angry if this happened to me. hopefully you can get it sorted out

**Doug_MPS6** · 21-12-2010, 02:48 PM

Did you get details on the tradie's truck or had it long gone? There is a lot to be said for having a camera on in a car now. One guy here had a bad experience in a road rage incident but the cops got the perp pretty fast, as the complainant had 6 video cameras scanning full-time all around his car!
I always keep a cheap camera in the car now. Mobile phone cameras are not always up to the task. Often merely pointing a camera will usually deter the road rage wan#@%s, idiots and vandals.

**ZAS** · 21-12-2010, 03:29 PM

You'll need to add a machine polisher to your arsenal mate.

**rogwick** · 21-12-2010, 04:32 PM

I would be angry if that happened to me too, even though I have a white car! Pretty dangerous if things are falling of tradie's cars though. What if it was a motorcycle...?