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Hello all,

I am so pissed off, I spent a whole day last week waxing my car only to wake up this morning and discover a few good sized and quite noticable scratches on the hood of my 2000 CSVT.

At first I thought it was the meatball maintenece people in my complex, but upon closer inspection it is only scratches and they seem consistant with bird scratchings or another small animal.

a few of them are light but some seem rather deep (you can see the basecoat) and while I have done some detailing before in the past as a profession, I am not overly familar with scratch removal short of subbing compound.

I was just wondeirng if there was anything I could do to lessen the damage (clay bar or somthing) short of using touchup paint or having the whole hood repainted as the first option looks ugly and the second it too expensive right now.

Any options would be appreciated, thanks

There is a product out there that you can buy that is the same colour as your paint. It is applied with a cloth and blends into the scratches.

I don't know how well it works or if it will work for the deeper scratches.

Just a thought!

Stephen

cats seem to be particularly fond of walking up and down a hood....if u just waxed the moron probably lost his grip a few times

Well atleast you didn' just get your hood painted and a bird craps on your car. I washed it off a couple of hours later and well it ate through the clearcoat and the paint, down to the primer.

Alittle over a week and my hood is already f*cked up!

Seems like there are a few others out there who are having the same issues or similar that I am.

I am almost certain that these are bird scratches as they are very isolated, highly random and there was a crow around here the other day...

I will look for the scratch hiding compound, but any suggestions would apprecaited.