MerlintheMad
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I tried rubbing out the paint touch up with Meguiar's "Mirror Glaze (1) Professional Medium-Cut Cleaner", rated at "7" on the "Light Cut - Heavy Cut" scale. I was told that it is more abrasive than the Meguiar's "Clear Coat Safe Polishing Compound". (Counter-intuitively, the heavier cleaner is thinner. Hmm!)
I wrapped a rubber eraser in soaked 2000 grit wet-dry sandpaper and lightly sanded down the higher (thicker) areas of the touch up paint spot. Then I put some "Mirror Glaze" cleaner in a terry cloth rag and started to rub moderately with a circular motion (this stuff is intended for use with a buffer). Eek! Instantly the paint turned almost black. WTH!? What is going wrong? I expected the exact opposite reaction: I expected to see the Silky Silver start to look more like the surrounding paint. Instead, it looks like the cleaner cleaned the paint OFF. The black bumper beneath was starting to "surface".
Damn! So, I put more touch up paint on the aggrieved area and now I wait. It's been c. 24 hours (I had waited c. that long before). I guess this needs at least 48 hours, like I originally intended.
The same thing happened on the tiny LR mark on the acute edge of the "spoiler" (where I accidentally rubbed while attending to an actual scratch further in and below the edge). My touch up paint spot turned dark and I had to add more paint.
I guess that I can keep doing this over and over until it comes out right. It did, once already. But each subsequent attempt on these other two spots have ended in failure.
I wrapped a rubber eraser in soaked 2000 grit wet-dry sandpaper and lightly sanded down the higher (thicker) areas of the touch up paint spot. Then I put some "Mirror Glaze" cleaner in a terry cloth rag and started to rub moderately with a circular motion (this stuff is intended for use with a buffer). Eek! Instantly the paint turned almost black. WTH!? What is going wrong? I expected the exact opposite reaction: I expected to see the Silky Silver start to look more like the surrounding paint. Instead, it looks like the cleaner cleaned the paint OFF. The black bumper beneath was starting to "surface".
Damn! So, I put more touch up paint on the aggrieved area and now I wait. It's been c. 24 hours (I had waited c. that long before). I guess this needs at least 48 hours, like I originally intended.
The same thing happened on the tiny LR mark on the acute edge of the "spoiler" (where I accidentally rubbed while attending to an actual scratch further in and below the edge). My touch up paint spot turned dark and I had to add more paint.
I guess that I can keep doing this over and over until it comes out right. It did, once already. But each subsequent attempt on these other two spots have ended in failure.
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