{"id":2970,"date":"2018-12-27T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-02-16T23:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:16:43","slug":"scratch-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/scratch-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taking advantage of the unusually warm weather over the holidays to take on some of the paint defects on the X5. This post shows how to tackle a deep scratch and bad touch-up paint job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we got the 2013 X5 in 2017, the dealer had attempted to hide a deep scratch with a thick coat of touch-up paint. We used <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"When we got the 2013 X5 in 2017, the dealer had attempted to hide a deep scratch with a thick coat of touch-up paint. We used Blob Eliminator to safely remove the touch-up paint first, then compounded and polished the hood to see what we had to work with. A good tip when trying to figure out whether a scratch is just through the clear-coat or goes into the paint layer, is to spray some water and see if the scratch disappears. If it does, then it's in the clear-coat. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.langka.com\/index.php\/featured-products\/blob-eliminator\" target=\"_blank\">Blob Eliminator<\/a> to safely remove the touch-up paint first, then compounded and polished the hood to see what we had to work with. A good tip when trying to figure out whether a scratch is just through the clear-coat or goes into the paint layer, is to spray some water and see if the scratch disappears. If it does, then it&#8217;s in the clear-coat.  These scratches appear to just be in the clear-coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/beforeafter-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/beforeafter-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/beforeafter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/beforeafter-2000x1333.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we&#8217;re using this hood for our long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7VRXQ8w77gA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Since we're using this hood for our long-term Bead Maker test, I wanted to see if I could completely eliminate the scratch before sealing the paint. This video shows that process. (opens in a new tab)\">Bead Maker test<\/a>, I wanted to see if I could completely eliminate the scratch before sealing the paint. This video shows that process.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vF-f64oRS_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking advantage of the unusually warm weather over the holidays to take on some of the paint defects on the X5. This post shows how to tackle a deep scratch and bad touch-up paint job. When we got the 2013 X5 in 2017, the dealer had attempted to hide a deep scratch with a thick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/scratch-removal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scratch Removal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[47,90,241,242,287,294],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","category-detailing","category-diy","tag-bmw","tag-detailing","tag-scratch-removal","tag-scratch-repair","tag-wet-sanding","tag-x5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/beforeafter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}