Ask the Detailer...

[5.9Limited]

Hey all... just putting this out there..

Im a professional detailer with good experience and professional training and certification. Offering to answer questions, needs wants, about techniques, equipment, chemicals, for interior, exterior services as well as numerous other services regarding winshield repair, headlight restoration, clearcoat restoration, wheel repair, engine detailing etc. and remember, the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. ( Or so my 4th grade teacher always told me).

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My car has been keyed. I've got one of those stock paint pens, and I believe it comes with clearcoat as well. How would you go about painting it?

And no, I don't care about painting the whole area again, since the paint already sucks

My windshield is pitted with thousands of tiny specks. Is there a way to polish it back to like new?

[5.9Limited]

as far as the paint stick fix job is concerned you can only do so much with them...how ever your best bet is to take it easy...do multiple thin coats regardless of what the instructions tell you. I'd reccomend like 2 coats of paint and and 3 coats of clear respectively...for a moderately decent job, a good polish will help blend it in, if you want it as close to new as possible with that treatment, give an area of roughly one square foot around the scratch a light...and i mean light color sand (wet sand) ... get some 1600 to 2000 black sand papers and lightly scour the area left to right ...stay horizontal ...and the polish the scuff area toa nice shine, a buff and wax of the entire car is recommended to blend the repair. what color is your car??? hopefully a lighter color...as they are far easier to blend thatn darks like greens, blues and blacks...I have a black jeep, very hard to maintain a perfect look...but worth it in my opinion

2.) yes windshields can be polished...you result will vary depending on the age of the windshield...new ones have a thicker safety ply on the outside that allows you to get more aggressive with your polish. if you have a cordless drill you can buy a bit set that allows you to use 4 inch buffer pads of various textures on your drill...then get your self some quality chrome/glass polish (their usually sold as a dual surface chemical that works well on both chrome and glass). you can use a standard rotary buffer as well, but keep the speed down, almost on its lowest setting to stay away from etching the glass. apply the product to the buffer pad and work half the surface at a time, left to right, then up and down being careful to be even with your pressure, keeping the pads flat, working at a medium pace...

if you need advice as to where to order products I can get you a hookup through the supplier I use out of California, same place the i get all my stuff from and my training and certifications as wel. a great place ,and if you go through me you'll save a little cash off of retail. let me know if you need anything else!!

Best of luck.
Adam