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Clear coat damaged by salt residue






2005

My Son tried to do me a favor while visiting relatives in Rochester, he wiped my new Toyota truck with damp rag, after a snow storm, with salt on the road.
The result was a good many scratches on the clear coat.
How can I replenish the luster and remove the scratches?
Without damage to the finish?

Terrance J. Peppers
painting - Lancaster, Pennsylvania


If the scratches are not through the clear coat, you may be able to remove them. If scratched into the underlying color, then they can't be removed. You might do best by have a local body shop do the buffing. If you have no experience, it would be easy to buff through the clear, then you'll have to repaint.

jeffrey holmes
Jeffrey Holmes, CEF
Spartanburg, South Carolina
2005




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