I'm an instructor at a military school, and one of my students has a problem. While his car was parked at the barracks one night, a contractor spilled cement powder all over his very clean Mustang Mach 1. If that's not bad enough, the contractor decided to try and cover his ass by brushing it off with a push broom.

I'm pretty sure I can get 95% of the scratches out of the paint (it's that medium blue color). I'm not 100% solid on what if anything can be done to the unpainted, satin finished rear spoiler or the satin black racing stripe sticker on the hood. Any thoughts on those two?

 

Sheesh man, GL with that. You know who did it, is he willing to pay for the damages or at the very least the detail?

 

got pics?

if its really plastic, its gonna be very difficult to get rid of scratches if they are at all deep. if light scratches you can improve them with plastic polish.

be very careful on the stripe- that is easy to damage more. polish isnt as likely a solution here. stripes usually have to be repaired or replaced.

but if we can see pics maybe we can try to judge what might work.

 

Nothing is very deep. In fact if the plastic was completely flat it would be very hard to see. It's actually a sort of semi-gloss though. He's already been paid for the damages. He actually got paid enough to replace the spoiler, stripe, and for a good detail. I'm hoping I can save him a few bucks out of the deal though. I thought about plastic polish, but I'm a little afraid it might polish too well and end up shiney. I'm thinking about wet sanding it down to smooth. I think somewhere around a 2000 grit final might be pretty close to the factory finish. If it doesn't work out I won't charge him and he can just buy a new one.

The sticker I'm less hopeful about. I just can't see repairing vinyl. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask though.

I'll try to get some pictures of the damage to the wing soon, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in my ability to capture it in a picture. I'm 100% open to other ideas if anybody has some.

 

I would try 3000 first, just from seeing my friends Mach1 I think 2000 might be too rough. I obviously could be wrong.

 

dang.... that sucks....
g/l with the project and make sure to take pics and let us know how it ends up

 

The vinyl will probably need to be replaced. Satin finishes are very unforgiving.

Is the spoiler plastic or Fiberglass? If it's made like the bumpers, you could detail/correct it the same, but not sure how it will affect the satin finish.

pics will help. good luck to your friend, and I hope you are able to help him out