So like every winter I wash my vehicle when the sun comes out basically, but this time I happen to wash it on a partly cloudy day and neglected to put enough dish soap in the bucket since I use hot hot water and keep refilling and ended up ruining my paint job with tiny scratch marks all over, highly noticable in direct sunlight, so what can be done? I have used polishing compound in the pastsince someidiots wrote on my tailgate in the dirt but this is waaay worse now, should I get it professionally buffed out for $100 when winters over or try and tackle it myself. The clear coat seems to be on its last luster.

 

Don't waste your money on professional work, they'll do the same thing you can do with an afternoon's worth of hard work. Now, I'm not a spokesman and not paid by them, but Zymoil is some of the best stuff I've seen used. We had a 1980 Porsche that had been neglected for quite a few years and sat dirty in a garage, and looked like it was 25 years old. Then after a good wash and using this stuff (you can use it by hand or on a wheel if you're lazy) it looked like a brand new car. Seriously, it looked like a new paint job.. scratches gone, new luster, it would blind you in direct sunlite because of that Guard's Red. Great stuff.

I use it every once-in-awhile on my truck after some good off-roading and it takes away everything that happened after I got it. They sell it at any auto parts palace, usually about $15 or so. Just make sure you get a good applicator and lots of them.

 

Sound like a normal black paint job to me. You can power polish so the scratches are far less noticable. A shop would charge a fair bit to do it but you would bepretty happy with it. If you tackle it yourself just take your time so the paintdoesn't get damaged by the buffer.I have a black mustang and a pearl green ram so I keep the polisher pretty busy in the summer. I hope you aren't using actual dish soap to wash your truck: dish soap strips the wax off while car wash soap doesn't.

 

Try checking in here for some info. I read this a while ago and all sounded really good.
https://dodgeforum.com/m_156644/tm.htm

 

I agree, i'm a porter at a dodge dealership and all used cars have tiny scratches all over them. We have to hand wash the new black cars so they don't get the scratches. Black just shows it best. Bringing your car to an automatic car was or washing it with a brush instead of a soft, clean sponge will do that. Idk how bad your scratches are but i'm sure an afternoon of hard work will make the scratches less noticeable.

 

Dish soap is horrible for paint. Get yourself a good wax, and good paint cleaner like meguiars http://www.meguiars.com/?auto-paint-...-Paint-Cleaner. and http://www.meguiars.com/?liquid-car-...ation-Tech-Waxfor was.Another thing.... buy a good car wash soap and sponge, and bucket. Use the bucket and sponge ONLY for cleaning your car that way u keep debre and stuff to a minimum in the bucket. I use a seperate sponge for cleaning the wheels and grille seeing as how theres more crud in those areas.

 

Thanks for the advice!

 

While bacl ago inthe summer i went out and bought a whole meguiars car care kit with soap mits shammy wax inside dash cleaner it was expensive but all works awesome

 

This site has a lot of good info on detailing and haze/scratch/etc. removal...

http://www.autopia.org/