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Tuesday morning, I went over to a buds house for some 101 lessons on removing scratches from your paint.

Basically, I've had more and more scratches show up over the last year that I could not tell you how I've gotten. It looked like someone set down a box on the back rear of the spoiler and BAM...there were about 9 vertical scratches and one horizontal. All over, more scratches in the clear coat that when washed and dried, stand out like a sore thumb. It's been getting on my nerves.

I've used the Mothers Stage 1 polish, Stage 2 shine, and a coat of wax. But, it just doesn't get rid of all the scratches or all swirls. So, I called my bud who restores old trucks. We used various sandpapers on the clear coat cutting down a bunch of scratches making the beautiful black paint very cloudy looking. We hit it with some rough compound, then the stage 1, 2 and wax. I stayed up from 12:30am to 4am yesterday morning doing the hood and trunk. I used Meguiars Scratch X for a basic swirl removal on the hood by hand...applying and removing. I used Mothers Stage 1 w/ the orbital buffer, and then Stage 2 also w/ the orbital. I then applied the Meguiars Gold Class caranuba wax by hand and removed it by hand, polishing it w/ a terry cloth on the orbital once the wax was removed. I did this very, very lightly.

Now...for the pix.

Before and after on the spoiler. There were some pretty good scratches here. You can see the swirl marks in the clear coat in the first two.