Best Way To Get Scratches Out?

[waxxy]

ive just checked my car and someones scratched my drivers door its not very deep but the scratch it around 6 inches long :( its a black car and id wished id bought a lighter colour now sure it looks cool but its a !Removed! to keep clean and scratch free .

whats the best way too deal with it?thanks

[Pat2u]

Try to polish it out with normal polish if its not gone to base coat, darker the colour i found harder to get rid off.

[waxxy]

ive just had my dad and my best mate check it out they both said polish will cover it up as its not really gone deep into the primer or base coat.what polish do you recommend and is it best to rub it in with a microfibre cloth/thanks

[Red Yaris 54]

ive just had my dad and my best mate check it out they both said polish will cover it up as its not really gone deep into the primer or base coat.what polish do you recommend and is it best to rub it in with a microfibre cloth/thanks

You could try this:

http://www.turtlewax.com/main.taf?p=2,1,4,5

Available in many colours, including Black I used it on my previous Carlo Blue Yaris.

Wear gloves when using it coz if it gets on your hands it takes ages to clean off

[alfiejts]

In the autoexpress tests for scratch remover, "Autoglym Paint Renovator" came out well. I've just got some and had some good results....

[Madasafish]

Try black shoe polish: the wax type...

[waxxy]

ill get some polish tommorow i tried out the offical toyota cockpit cleaner today ..that stuff is really bad i followed the instructions by only spraying the cleaner onto a cloth the wipe that over the cockpit but its left a uneven streakiness to the plastic areas ..also my babys scratched on side of the cockpit and wondered if theres anything that can be done to clean it up?whats the best way to use the cockpit cleaner i foillowed the instructions but they dont seem good too me also i used a microfibre cloth as its softer im i best use something else?

[Pat2u]

ive just had my dad and my best mate check it out they both said polish will cover it up as its not really gone deep into the primer or base coat.what polish do you recommend and is it best to rub it in with a microfibre cloth/thanks

I have had success with a waxy type of polishes on red/silver/gold and white vehicles making sure the cloth never dries out, and when happy the scratch has gone then polish off to a shine, they say a felt pen can assist if the colours are close but never tried it myself.

[waxxy]

ive seen the paint pens in my local toyota garage they have my colour ..my cars the eclipse metalic black its black with little silver/gold flecks in it so its sparkly:)

ill check out the wax/polsh and my mates told me hes got some t-cut to use is that any good?he swears by it.

[Pat2u]

ive seen the paint pens in my local toyota garage they have my colour ..my cars the eclipse metalic black its black with little silver/gold flecks in it so its sparkly:)

ill check out the wax/polsh and my mates told me hes got some t-cut to use is that any good?he swears by it.

T-cut can be a little fierce, its ok to take sun burst off red shades, try to polish out the scratch first before useing any colour touch ups, what tends to happen as you polish the scratch out it fills the scratch in as you polish, work slowly with the polish and in a bigger area than the scratched area so not to leave a noticable newly polished site area then polish the whole panel to finish the job off which will seal in the colour back into the original scratch. Black is not the best of colours to work with good luck.

[alfiejts]

If you're after general product advise - try autoexpress.co.uk

Its a magazine web site and they publish the results of all their comparison tests from their car mag.

You can't go wrong buying from their recommendations....

I use Comma interior cleaner that cleans the plastic and leaves it with no residue (and its antibacterial which can't be a bad thing with kids in the car) - but because its just a cleaner, it doesn't cover up any scuffs.

What I have found is that if I use some of the "black trim polish" very sparingly on a cloth to rub over the scratches in the plastic trim, that's a very good way of covering minor scuffs. (actually, I just use the dirty black polishing cloth after I've polished the black trim. I don't put any extra black polish onto the cloth, just use what's already been impregnated into it from doing the blacck trim before...)