Clear Coat Scratches
 

I was washing my month old black p5 last night and notice a few scratches to the clear coat on my bumper. Is there an easy way to get them removed permanently?

The day after I got my car, I notice the same thing on my rear bumper, and took it to the dealer to get it buffed out. Mazda Service Centres SUCK! They were very reluctant to remove it and accused me of doing it myself...after one day of ownership??? They took it to a autobody shop to get it buffed out...but is there an easier way to do it before spending the money in an autobody??? Any ideas appreciated!

my car has EXTREMELY fine scratches all over the car. i think it's from washing and drying it. anyway, i used meguires scratch-x and it seemed to do a pretty good job at hiding them. i then went over the car with meguires gold class wax, and WOW! what a difference. :cool:

You could try a product like Meguiar's swirl remover #9 2.0 or 3M Swirl remover. However, you should really have a random orbital buffer to take out swirls and scratches effectively. Hand power would be tough if you were going to do large areas right.

yes definitly tough. is pent about 1.5 hours on my car, and it made some improvement. however, if you look at the car in certain lights, you can still see more.

That's the problem with dark colored cars. Small scratches will show up under any circumstance no matter how careful you are with washing and drying. You can't completely eliminate the swirl marks, all cars have them, they just seem to show up more on black cars, just make sure you wax often to fill in the scratches. You probably don't need to polish the car since your car is still new, a good wax and buffing should do wonders.

A "wax" will not fill in swirls.
You need a product like a glaze (ie. 3M imperial hand glaze, mother's sealer and glaze, etc) to fill in swirls. Even 3M's swirl mark remover, and Meguiar's #9 2.0 and Scratch-X have fillers to help mask swirls.

Actually, if you are using the Meguiar's 3-step "Deep crystal system", they call step 2 a "polish" which is a glaze type of product.