I will apologize now for the longwindedness of this. I picked up a '09 TSX Tech a little over a month ago and decided to sell my '03 Civic EX. A couple of days after I listed the Honda and had it detailed, some kids spraypainted it while it was parked out front! No other damage just blue spraypaint over about 1/2 the car. I had an appt. for a used car certification that morning at Honda so I called their body shop and they said to bring it over ASAP. The mgr. jumped right on it and began removing the paint with adhesive remover. It was coming off rather easily as the paint was rather fresh and the car had just been polished and waxed. I looked over the car in the bright sunlight once they finished detailing it and it looked great. Now the car has been sitting since then aside from a couple of buyers coming to look at it. I finally sold it on Ebay and had it in the garage cleaning stuff out, etc when I noticed that finish had swirl marks all over the area where they had worked on. I had some Meguiar's Scratch X and worked a small area and it had little effect. The problem I have now is that I can't get it back into Honda until Friday to have them look it over and my buyer is coming on Saturday. I'm concerned that damage has been done to the finish. I realize it's difficult with out seeing the finish, but does anyone have any thoughts on what may have happened and is it correctable by having the car buffed with a more robust scratch/swirl remover? I want to be upfront with my buyer, but I don't want to scare him away if this can be corrected. Thanks!

 

Yes it can be corrected, the body shop possibly just used a rag with the adhesive remover and it was just to rough on the paint especially since Honda/Acura paint is very soft.

You can get the areas buffed again, hopefully by a pro detailer(maybe the same guy who buffed it the first time) and if he has a paint depth gauge he can measure the paint to see if it's safe. He should start at the least abbrasive polish and work his way up.

 

Thanks for the reply. He did use a rag. Man this pisses me off. But good news that it sounds like it can be fixed.

 

This problem can be fixed by someone who actually knows how to detail a car. Who detailed the car previously? You may have been better off if the shop guys used a microfiber cloth to apply the adhesive remover. At least the spray paint was removed.

 

Took it back to the pro that did the original detail and he had it done in under an hour. Looks pristine. I think he was dissapointed that I didn't have more of a challenge for him.

 

at least it wasn't your new car

 

WHo was the pro detailer you took the car to? an hour you say? did you watch him do the work? Hopefully he used a light polish to remove the scratches created my the ignorant guy at the dealership instead of a glaze to cover up the defects??

 

He used a polish and then of course another coat of wax.

 

Amen to that.