Hi all,just wondered if its me or does anyone elses freely have what seems very easily scratched paint?I thought my merc was bad but the freelanders paint seems even softer.makes it worse that its metallic black and shows up every tiny mark.bit gutted really as its only 9 months old.anybody got any ideas about getting light scratches out of the paint?what to use etc?cheers MY2009 2.2 td4 se
,auto.santorini black,clear side lenses

Any good polish should get light scratches out but if you can feel the scratch with you finger nail you won't get it out yourself(unless your a bodyshop fella). I've used autoglym super resin polish followed by gloss protect which worked well but there are lots of other good polishes out there.
The main reason for the scratching is the paint is water based these days and it does scratch easy and Black is the worst colour for showing them up. The smart reapir guys can work wonders for a cheap repair. Metalic paint will be laquered which should help, i once had a car with non laquered black paint and I swear I could scratch it by looking at it hence I sold it and bought a Land Rover.

I was told by a Body Sprayer that the paint nowadays is weaker a lot due to the fact that it is now waterbased. Fords were among the first to go down this route and a long time ago I had a Mondeo and it was black also and the paint was weak on that one, it looked tatty after a while and got shot after two years. p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

Thanks guys.have used autoglym on my cars for years and it did a pretty good job.with this motor tho it seems like every time i get back to the car another scratch shows up.had a metallic black rover 623 back in the early 90`s and the paint was way tougher than this. MY2009 2.2 td4 se
,auto.santorini black,clear side lenses

Land Rover have won accolades for their paint finish - most notably from the globally respected J.D:Power. Their paint finish is with the industries best - but - it isn't scratch proof - none are

I'm Wondering how ROVERLAND goes on with scratches to his film coating? or whether it's scrath proof ? He can obviously just have a panel re-covered if Not.

I don`t expect scratch proof paint,just seems not to be very durable on a car that is supposed to go off-road once in a while.looks like the marks have been made by people brushing past possibly.the actual paint job itself is very good,i luv the car,which is why i`m so off by the paint. MY2009 2.2 td4 se
,auto.santorini black,clear side lenses

The freelander 2 paint is classed as intermediate hardness

as said a scratch felt by a finger nail is normally too deep to polish out, so you can machine polish it to round the edges of the scratch to help deflect reflected light

using polishes which are heavy on fillers will help too Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Rich T wrote:

I don`t expect scratch proof paint,just seems not to be very durable on a car that is supposed to go off-road once in a while.

Tell him about your mothballed project pinky

Ours was full of light scratches when I bought it so I had the paint "corrected" - the guy took a LOT of measurements on the thickness of the paint all over teh car then buffed the crap out of it - looks better then new now.

Once done you need to wash your car properly using snow foam and two buckets etc but the resulting shine lasts for years

He then did my other cars.

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Rowy wrote:

Rich T wrote:

I don`t expect scratch proof paint,just seems not to be very durable on a car that is supposed to go off-road once in a while.

Tell him about your mothballed project pinky

Did it ever get on Dragons Den  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

You mean this one

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What is it?

I can only guess it's a kind of infectious grey paint that turns other landys grey if you go by them?

Oh, and not so sorry to say this, those wheels are fooking 'orrible

It my project From once upon a time

http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic2796.html Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

er nice?