Removing Paint Transfer And Scuffing On Porsche Carrera 911 Bumper In Lansdowne, Cape Town

Here is a Black Porsche Carrera 911 that came to our detailing studio in Lansdowne, Cape Town, for scratches and scuffing to be removed.

Paint Transfer or scuffing occurs when your car comes into contact/rubs/scuffs with another object or vehicle. In the process, paint transfers from the other object onto your vehicle’s surface.

Objects could be a wall or gate as you move your car. It could be a pole or a sideswipe from another vehicle.

In order to remove the paint transfer, we would first clean the whole vehicle or just the area we want to clean up. We would clay and then try a chemical remover.

In general, we would polish the area. In the extreme, we may have to wet sand and then follow that up with polishing.

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Porsche Carrera 911 Paint Transfer — Paint transfer of the rear bumper of a Porsche Carrera 911

After washing & claying

Some of the paint transfer came off during the washing and subsequent laying process. As can be seen, polishing is needed.

After first round of polishing

This is after the first round of compound/heavy-cut polishing.

Completed – Area from ‘Normal View’

The normal viewing distance is 1.5 to 2 meters away from a car. For this particular example, it looks perfect at a normal viewing distance. The scratches start appearing close up, from approximately 0.5 meters for this car.

As you’ve seen, once the paint transfer has been removed, there may be scratches from the contact. If it isn’t deep, it may be removed or improved by polishing like in this example.

The rule of thumb for removing scratches by polishing or sanding is; that if the scratch can be felt with your fingernail, it’s too deep to be removed!

up close of polished area — Up close, 10cm away, from the area after multiple rounds of polishing. Whats left here is too deep and requires respray.

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