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glade · 10-03-09, 10:44 PM

As others have said, if it's through the plastic it'll be a respray.

If it's a surface scratch a cutting polish might help. Effectively you remove the paint/clearcoat down to the bottom of the scratch so that it disapears. Autoglym "Super Resin Polish" also "fills" the scratch with light polymer resins which helps.

The SV doesn't seem to have a clearcoat - based on the fact that if you polish it the paint ends up on the pad. Therefore you have to be careful not to remove too much paint when polishing, and not to polish too often because you could rub through the paint eventually.

After polishing, wax to protect the paint.

10-03-09, 10:44 PM	#7
glade Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 431	Re: How do you get rid of Scratches As others have said, if it's through the plastic it'll be a respray. If it's a surface scratch a cutting polish might help. Effectively you remove the paint/clearcoat down to the bottom of the scratch so that it disapears. Autoglym "Super Resin Polish" also "fills" the scratch with light polymer resins which helps. The SV doesn't seem to have a clearcoat - based on the fact that if you polish it the paint ends up on the pad. Therefore you have to be careful not to remove too much paint when polishing, and not to polish too often because you could rub through the paint eventually. After polishing, wax to protect the paint.