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250GTE · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Washington State

I have a black gloss Vidikron case and it has some light scratches on it. These are like the swirl marks that you often see on cars (for some reason I seem to always see this on black BMW's more then other cars). I think that they are actually from cleaning dust off of the case in the past.

I am guessing that you treat the case exactly like you would a car but I wanted to make sure waxing it wasn't a bad idea. Is there a better method for removing these swirl marks? Also the case has some matte gray around the lenses, do I need to be careful to keep wax off of the matte gray or can that be waxed also?

Thanks

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Heres a good article to read.

http://www.autoeducation.com/carcare/cleanpaint.htm

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject:

You'll need to use a product such as ScratchX swirl remover It will take out those polishing mark's.

If you do wax it, make sure to mask off the matte paint first. I've never seen a product that can efectively remove wax from matte paint yet. Well you can use amonia but it's not always sucssful and it smell's like you had a band of Tom cat's in the house.
Also keep in mind you'll probably want a paste wax rather than a liquid. It stays put better.

Make sure to use an easy release masking tape such as one like this from 3M.

Then post some picture's of your work.

250GTE · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Washington State

Thanks for the input, I think I will give this a try. I will post some pictures if I can track down a decent camera, I am guessing that my 2 MP cell phone camera won't be worth even trying

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject:

Well something's better than nothing. Good luck. Thumbs Up