| Author | Message | ||
     Damien Vrontisis (Dvrontisis) New Member Username: Dvrontisis Post Number: 3 Registered: 04-2003 |
my black discovery really shows off the scratches from brush. i buffed most of them out with rubbing compund. Is there any thick wax capable of preventing it from getting scratches AS much? | ||
| Jason Bard (Jbard) Member Username: Jbard Post Number: 152 Registered: 10-2002 |
If you don't buff out the scratches, the new scratches are harder to see. But honestly, I use Eagle 1's Wax As You Dry every time I wash the Meat Wagon and it seems to help prevent new scratches from forming while in the bush. Usually wash once a week, and the truck once every other week. | ||
| Steve R (Barton) Member Username: Barton Post Number: 60 Registered: 02-2003 |
if ya can't "release" on the paint...you won't enjoy offroading... -Confuscious | ||
| Brad Russell (Bradnc) Member Username: Bradnc Post Number: 223 Registered: 03-2002 |
Just wax it heavily before you hit the trails. Won't prevent scratches but will make them less severe. You can buff the scratches out after with an orbital buffer. | ||
| Roland Kutasi (Disco1) Member Username: Disco1 Post Number: 69 Registered: 10-2002 |
In Oz we don't call them scratches, we call it "pin stripping". | ||
| Greg (Gparrish) Senior Member Username: Gparrish Post Number: 1226 Registered: 04-2002 |
Jason, you wash once a week? | ||
| Jason Bard (Jbard) Member Username: Jbard Post Number: 163 Registered: 10-2002 |
Figured if anyone was going to catch that it'd be you, buddy. LOL Yeah why? Is that too often?? | ||
| Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) Senior Member Username: Deanbrown3d Post Number: 629 Registered: 02-2002 |
Get enough mud on it and you won't see them any more. | ||
| Alan Bates (Alanb) Member Username: Alanb Post Number: 162 Registered: 07-2002 |
Get some of those magnetic stick on things that the guy with the silly H2 had. | ||
| Kirk Thibault (Kirkt) Member Username: Kirkt Post Number: 61 Registered: 11-2002 |
Paint it white. | ||
| Greg (Gparrish) Senior Member Username: Gparrish Post Number: 1228 Registered: 04-2002 |
No, I guess a bath every Saturday, wheather you need it or not, is okay Jason.......... White scratches too Kirk. You could do what I did and put about 3 or 4 coats of wax on the truck one weekend. That will take a while to scratch through, and scuffs and scratches in the wax will be easier to buff out than those in the paint. | ||
| Damien Vrontisis (Dvrontisis) New Member Username: Dvrontisis Post Number: 20 Registered: 04-2003 |
thanks. any good thick wax out that you guys use? I've just been using Liquid turtle wax. And a buffing compound to get the scratches out. | ||
| Kirk Thibault (Kirkt) Member Username: Kirkt Post Number: 62 Registered: 11-2002 |
White doesn't scratch and it doesn't get dirty. | ||
| Kevin Bridges (Craniac) Member Username: Craniac Post Number: 111 Registered: 02-2003 |
Kirk- I once had a white car that got a scratch?  | ||
| John Friederich (Jfriedlvcmcom) New Member Username: Jfriedlvcmcom Post Number: 24 Registered: 02-2003 |
I thought I had scratches too deep to ever get out. I got out the orbital and a bottle of Maquires fine cut, went over the sides, then followed up with Maguires #3 'machine only' wax. The results are amazing, almost all scratches are invisible. Now, though, I've got a problem with the plastic showing white 'wax stuff'. The rough surface plastic is the worst, like the sills where my sliders would be if I had sliders. The bumpers are the second worst. Help? John F | ||
| Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) Senior Member Username: Deanbrown3d Post Number: 633 Registered: 02-2002 |
Be at one with your scratches. It's just character building, and most of the panels are aly anyway so they won't rust. Gosh I can't hardly find a place on mine that isn't scratched! Pine Barrens en1? | ||
| Snowman (Snowman) Senior Member Username: Snowman Post Number: 397 Registered: 12-2002 |
My previous Rover was always waxed and shined up. It was a beautiful truck but I freaked whenever my kids got near it. Just yesterday my son smacked a baseball off the front hood of my present RR. My wife gave me a quick look like "Oh no he's going to throw a freaking fit". I simply shrugged my shoulders and said "No big deal". I simply don't care anymore and everyone is so much happier because of it. It's not that I can't appreciate a well taken care of truck, I just got a little too retentive about it. S- |
