Polishing out LOTS of BIG scratches. Help please! :-)

[J_S_G]

Hi all...

I've just managed to polish out a particularly large, deep scratch down two of the doors on the Passat in preparation for selling it, using the best part of an entire tube of T-Cut Scratch Remover and about 8 hours of elbow grease (having painted over the scratch with paint and lacquer touch-up pens to build up the level of the paint first). It didn't look half bad by the time I'd finished, but you can still see it if you look closely.

Feeling brave, and in need of a new runabout, the following looked close enough to a bargain to be worth a punt: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl

So, I now have a new hack with even more scratches. A couple of the door ones don't look as bad as on the Passat, but the boot in particular looks like it could be worse. So, anybody with any experience beyond my one bank holiday with T-Cut would be much appreciated!

Any thoughts on getting a "semi pro" job done by somebody like Chipsaway - would they touch it?

What about if I'm doing it myself... best technique/products? Something that breaks down a bit more than T-Cut for a better job, presumably? I'm guessing somebody like Meguiars will do a better product to work with?

Any tips on best ways of getting the paint back up to the same depth (physically) short of a small brush again if it's cut through that far? (That was a PIG to polish off all the excess paint!)

Another way of putting it would be - I'm budgetting up to, say, £400-500 for getting this fixed as best as possible (the cheaper the better, naturally) - best approach given that?

Beers at the next PH gathering for anybody that helps turn another potential fleabay lemon into the bargain I'd quite like it to be... :cheers:

Thanks all!

[J_S_G]

One other thing... Feel free to pitch your services at me if there's anybody in the area (either Derby, Huddersfield, or potentially even Knutsford in Cheshire) that thinks they can take care of this. Happy to lose the car for a week/whatever as I'm not getting rid of the Passat for a couple of months yet.

[Mr OCD]

Sounds like you could do with a detailer

Drop me a line if you need some help

[morebeanz]

Those scratches look through to primer, so I would say a detailer is the wrong chap for the job. Chipsaway definitely if the franchise is good in your area, then maybe a detailer to clear up afterwards.

[Polarbert]

Theres no way in hell you'll get rid of those with anything other than a respray or touch up. You need a bodyshop for that I reckon.

Alternatively it seems right up chipsaways street I think.