It shouldn’t take you more than an hour to repair residue or a scuff marks. This will tell you if it’s gouged into the paint or sitting on top of the surface. To distinguish a scratch from a mark, go over it with your fingernail at a 90 degrees angle. It can also be tree sap, road tar, glue, goo or various crud. That object could be a rubber bumper of the shopping cart, a door of another car, or a wooden post. If the object that rubbed against your car is softer than the car’s paint, it will deposit material on the paint’s surface. Some scratches are just marks raised above the paint that are left by another object. So it’s best to do it right first time in my view.Not all scratches are the same. But it’s a “cheat” and if you are unlucky, It can make the too coat to milky, which would then require machine polishing anyway. If you really want to cheat, brake cleaner would remove it. I would use G3 ultra on the flat areas and G3 fine on the edges, and a machine polish of G3 finish over the lot to remove any fine marks when all the colour/transfer had been removed. G3 is a range, not a product, so if you pick the right product from the range then it will be spot on. It *might* remove some of it, but I would not use clay for transfer as heavy as that, its far more likely to cause a problem than it is to solve one in that scenario.Īnd I’m not sure what you mean that G3 is too aggressive. Sorry but clay bar isn’t the right thing to use for that. You’ll be left with some marks from the accident that need buffing up, but you shouldn’t need to be using anything as aggressive as G3. A clay bar will take all of the transferred paint off very easily without abrading your paint. The best way to get that off is to use a clay bar, not a polish.

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