buffing a scratch out?

buffing a scratch out?

i bought a pair of taillights from someone and they had a few scratches in them...not that i care because they were too cheap for me to passup...and i was just wondering if i could buff a few surface scratches on them off

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4548/dscn3873vd4.jpg

took a big picture of it can it be done? what would i need to do?

Yes.

A guy here locally did it on the headlights of his teg. Turned out pretty good compared to what it looked like before....

http://www.humbleperformance.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=23384

At home depot, you can buy a 8oz bottle of polish for Lexan. Product # GE-71 and buy some cotton rounds.

Helps if you get a machine to help polish thos scratches out - otherwise, you spend a ton of time using elbow grease to buff them out.

I've used Meguiar's Plastic-X and in the past, their professional Plastic Care #10 and #17 - works like magic. Add a Mother's Powerball buffer - and it cuts the workload down by an order of magnitude. 3M also makes a plasitc cleaner and polish - also works really well.

I 2nd the Meguiar's PlastX. It works wonders for scratched plastic.

can i pick the meguiars up at homedepot? or like a hobby shop?

sounds automotive to me

sure does =] i actually went to autozone after i posted that....

I would say use Meguiar's everything. Start with scratch remover then onto PlastX and a sealer wax.

did they have it at autozone?

yeah...i guess so i asked the guy if they had any and he showed me right too it...but i returned it bcuz those headlights dont work...long story