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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: fireman sam on 16 April 2005, 11:26
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well my 5 year old son decided he'd wash the car this morning and spent along time rubbing on some bird droppings - end result as expected i took the car to be washed properly.
when i got home and it dryed off to my horror the paintwork is all marked where the bird mess was.
it is mk4 standard black colour- can i use t cut to rectify or will it ruin whats left of the paint. i'm not sure if it's a metallic paint or not. i've been told in the past you shouldn't tcut met paint?
help !
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try turtle wax color polish and plenty of elbow grease first :wink: this should get rid of most of it if its not too deep :smiley:
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With a metallic you have a base coat and lacquer paint system. As long as the damage is light and not throught the lacquer you should be able to polish out the scratches with T cut. The danger is if you compound it too much you could cut through the lacquer to the base coat thereby losing your gloss finish in that one spot. So, you can give it a try but go easy and don't remove too much lacquer........from what you have described I would have thought the damage would be easily removed with T cut.
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Like richandhazel says you have to be very careful with T-cut. I always use Mer and it does a great job of getting rid of marks and sh!te :smiley:
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thanks guys i'll give it a go later. does any one if it is met paint with a laquer on the black mk4 golf. i've got lots of little scrtches i had left . i might sort thm all out if i won't ruin the paint.
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There are 2 Blacks, non metallic and metallic, ones called diamond black and I cant remember what the others called sorry!
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it's a 99 on a t plate if that helps
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The non metallic is just called black, the metallic is called diamond black pearl effect, you can tell by looking close up, if it looks like its got 'sparkly' bits in it then its the metallic, if not then it should just be base colour black.
I used the gentle tcut colour restorer stuff on my last MK4 which was non metallic and had to stop as it dulled the paint finish really easily.
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well now i am confused. what did you end up doing with yours? respray or just left it
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it sounds like you've only washed it.. as said above give it a good waxing with plenty of elbow grease on the marked areas... you'll be suprised the difference it makes.
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Recently used a new polish from Autoglym called Ultra Deep Shine its really good stuff but not cheap (£11.99) but it will buff out little scratches with a bit of elbow grease and is specially designed for dark cars and new paint. The bad thing is if you do that little bit you'll have to do the whole car ! :smiley:
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Ive used t-cut colour fast (the ones that match the colour plaint)
Birds are forever using my car as a toliet, and i found that it works quite well to get rid of marks.
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T Cut update
i used yesterdays fantastic weather to re wash the car. and decided to try out your advise
i used t cut for black cars and it got rid of the bird cr@p scratches no probs !
only trouble is i ended up doing the whole car- very addictive - but what a result the car is looking great ! :smiley: