Scratch Removal

[Dire91]

I've had light scratches on my clear coat forever now and decided to fix it today. I washed the car with dish soap, clay barred the hood, used rubbing compound on the hood, then polishing compound on the hood and then finally waxed it. Now it looks a whole lot better but there are still visible scratch marks and it isn't as shiny as other areas. Did I do something wrong? Should I try Swirl-X or something? Any help would be appreciated. (I put this in Gen Chat cus the detailing forum never gets any traffic)

[Infinitiguy19]

When every you compound a clear coat painted panel its always good to have a paint thickness meter.

Pictures of the scratches?

[krimsonviper]

Si, pics of scratches, or BAN

[Dire91]

It's dark out unfortunately, I'll get them up tomorrow morning.

[krimsonviper]

BAN!

[BusyBadger]

Meguiar's Scratch-X 2.0 and a DA polisher.

[HashiriyaS14]

http://www.autosol.com/

[Dire91]

Here are the pics, I sort of had trouble catching what I'm actually seeing.
This is what the scratches first looked like. Really visible, (this is the part of the car I haven't worked on yet)

Now here is the hood I worked on. There is definitely an improvement but you can still see rough spots where it isn't shiny and scratches are still visible.


Here is the products I am using.

I cleaned the entire car with dish soap, then used the rubbing compound and then the polishing compound and followed up with the wax. There is definitely an improvement but I expected the scratches to sort of vanish. It's starting to get really frustrating because the problem isn't being fixed, just "improved".

[Infinitiguy19]

Wet sanding gone wrong?

[Dire91]

My car got egged last year and it sat in the sun for 6 hours. I couldn't get it off with hot water so it resulted in the use of a rough clear coating scratching alternative.

[Infinitiguy19]

Well I hope the people who egged your car die a painful death.

As for the damage I would measure how much paint is left. If little is left then there isn't much your can do. If they are scratches you can try a filler product called Autoglym Super Resin Polish. That fills it in and removes the least clears as possible.

If that fails see a pro detailer.

[Dattebayo]

AFAIK eggs chemically react with the clear coat on a hot day so badly that it has to be sanded off completely and re-done.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Did you actually use a buffer to do the buffing, or did you just apply the stuff by hand? I've always had better luck with the 3M buffing compounds.

[S13_love]

My car got egged last year and it sat in the sun for 6 hours.