Hey,

I am a bit pissed off. I was "repairing" a scratch that I had on my car, and I seemed to have used a bit too much compound. Now, there is a dull spot on my car where I used the compound.

Is there anyway I could get the shine back?

Thanks.

Of course. Use a polishing compound with a finer grit than the one you used on your car. For example, if you were using 3M rubbing compound, follow it up with some 3M Finesse It polishing compound.

^^what he said

Yep. Step down to a finishing polish and a finishing pad and you should be okay. :)

Thanks a lot. That helped.

Thanks a lot. That helped.


Actually, it should more than 'help'. Not only should it get all of the 'micromarring' out that was caused by the abrasive product, but it should shine it at least back to what the surrounding area looked like, if not more so!

What you did is exactly what the recommended techniques call for: increasing levels of diminshing abrasive, until its as smooth and shiny as it can possibly be.

One of the reasons people like the Porter Cable orbital polisher is that, unlike hand rubbing or Rotary buffers, it uses a random high speed action which prevents micromarring, but is nonetheless effective at removing scratches. Ive found that the PC used with a polishing or cutting pad and Poorboys SSR 2.5 does an uncanny job of removing scratches without introducing new ones. This is a neat trick. If you used the SSR with just hand rubbing, youll find after just a couple of strokes youve introduced new scratches which need to be attended to by following up with finer abrasive, like the SSR1, etc. But on light paint, even when applied with a cutting pad, IVe had no micromarring while removing up to moderate level scratches using a combination of the SSR 2.5 on an Porter Cable polisher...