Best way to remove paint scuff from car

Stellite

The missus has just reversed the car into a lamppost, luckily just scuffing the car.
It's left a grey paint Mark on the car. What's the best way of removing this?

nicensleazy

T Cut

Frank the tank

I'll second that.

Stewie Griffin

Yes T cut. How did she not see a 20 foot tall pole with a light on top? Women :roll:

Stellite

Cheers folks.
I was thinking that but didn't know if it would be too abrasive

schweiz

it might be possible to get the grey paint from the lamp post off with a rag soaked in white spirit or meths. If the scratches in the car paint are deeper then t-cut and then wax polish.

danlikesbikes

+1 for T Cut.

Colleague at work managed to reverse into my bumper and left blue pain on my grey car, but the T-Cut did the trick though you can over do it.

Plus if its a bumper that has the paint mark just be careful as modern bumpers tend to only have a very thin primer as a base coat of paint and then top coat in your cars colour.

Scheweiz is correct as the soaked rag also works but as per above just need to be careful on what part of the car your leaving it on... main body panels and you'll be fine.

e999sam

I'd try the least abrasive option first eg an abrasive polish and then using more abrasive options like t cut and finally a very fine polishing sanding disc (1600 grade). If you are going to use a disc be very care full you don't go through the top coat. Remember the paint will be a lot thinner on corners and edges.

chunkytfg

e999sam wrote:

I'd try the least abrasive option first eg an abrasive polish and then using more abrasive options like t cut and finally a very fine polishing sanding disc (1600 grade). If you are going to use a disc be very care full you don't go through the top coat. Remember the paint will be a lot thinner on corners and edges.

Technically yes you are correct but can I just point out that 1600 grade wet and dry paper is very very abrasive fro this approach! I'd be looking at using something like 3000+ !!!

Abralon do small spot pads which are very good but if you are getting this done by hand then I would strongly advise against doing this! sanding marks are hard enough to remove with even Dual action polisher and would be better done with a proper rotary so to try and get rid of them by hand would be suicide for your paint!!!