So I've had my black punto for a while now and this has really been bugging me. After washing it and polishing you can see swirl marks in the paint. It was like this when I brought the car.

How can I get rid of them. I'm considering clay bar perhaps. I've tried tcut and it made no difference apart from revealing scratches.

Someone please help

oXRUSSXo said:

So I've had my black punto for a while now and this has really been bugging me. After washing it and polishing you can see swirl marks in the paint. It was like this when I brought the car.

How can I get rid of them. I'm considering clay bar perhaps. I've tried tcut and it made no difference apart from revealing scratches.

Someone please help

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Try some of Autoglyms super resin polish its full of fillers so will mask scratches to a degree. Best way to get rid is to have the car polished by a professional with a machine polisher , who can wet sand panels to remove much severe scratches.

Also stop using tcut its the polish of satan ; )

The car needs to be machine polished to level the clear coat.

I would suggest purchasing a dual orbital/action polisher, a few polishing pads and polishes and doing it yourself.

Polishing by hand will take a very, very, very long time to remove swirl marks.

With a few basic tools, some instruction and a pinch of patience, you can save money and have your car looking just as good as a pro can. The latest Meguiars Microfibre polishing system is very easy and quick to correct most clear coat types.

If you hired a pro it would cost between £150 - £600 on average for them to either enhance(70-85% swirl removal) or fully correct(90-98% removal) the clear coat.

My parents Punto was an ex hire car which was in really good condition apart from the paintwork. It had obviously been auto car washed meaning loads of swirls.

I bought a 240v halfords polisher and some meguairs stage 2 (polish) and stage 3 (wax) and this completely removed it after a long afternoon of polishing. This was a year ago and no sign of it showing again. I avoided the stage 1 compound type stuff as I was confident the polish would be enough.