Cat Scratched Paint - How To Fix
 

Cat jumped onto my silver 911 coupe, missed his landing spot and slipped down the drivers rear fender. There are four distinct claw marks about 4 inches long. The scratches appear to only be in the clear coat.

I tried photographing the scratches to post here, but I couldn't get them to show up. My wife thinks its not a big deal and I should kill the cat. The cat's time is probably up and will meet its fate soon, we live near a busy road. Ooops.

How do I fix the scratches?

wj

Oooops. What a Freudian slip. Meant to say "shouldn't kill the cat."

Try some light polish compound. If they don't come out, try a little coarser compound. If they are not through the paint, you should be able get them out or at least not be too noticeable.

AS for the cat? .45

Wayne,

I don't think 45 is fast enough. If you're gonna sling it out the window, you definitely need to be in the triple digit speed range. ;)

Randy

apache could take care of the situation....

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kidding of course :D

hi Jackman,

same thing happened to my 930 last week with neighbors dog.
Here's what I did, and you cant even see the scratches at all.

Get yourself a random orbital sander, Sears has a 10" for like $40 right now on sale. Wash your car with Dawn to remove any old junky wax. Then use Mequier's Fine Cut Cleaner and a Meguire's yellow pad.
Use the sander in the area affected, until the cleaner is almost dry.
Wipe clean with a microfiber cloth. Repeat, until the entire area on the car is done this way, you need to go at least 10" around the scratches...to blend the paint in so to speak.

Using a new Yellow Pad and Mequire's Swirl Remover 2.0. Again, the area affected, worked until almost dry. Wipe it off again with the microfiber and redo, until the area is done same way.

Now if you want to add overall gloss to your car and really blend your paint in so you cant notice anything then this would be a good time to get some 3M rubbing hand glaze and using your hands, not the sander, polish and rub the entire car down.

Your car should look better than showroom new, if not, redo the 3M one more time. It takes time. If you still have scratches, then you will need to use a stronger polish to get those out or some claybars, although you will be lifting some of your paint with them, so be gentle when your using those.

you can then finish up with the Mequires #20 wax to seal in the 3M polish/gloss and their tan pad and you should be looking like a Concours winner:)

Antifreeze? Why was it a Freudian slip? What EXACTLY were you going to do to that cat?

Double tap the cat. Pop,pop!

*******s and Porsches don't mix :-)


Randy Jones
1971 911 "Iris"

1st try Meguiar's Scratch-X or similar

2nd go with Body Scrub and a wool pad on a random orbit machine only

3rd Find a GOOD body shop & pay them

Grind the cat into a paste, add silver paint, blot on with a sponge....

How do I fix the scratches?

#1, kick the ***** out of the cat and then have it declawed.
#2 Ask questions on the Pelican board how to fix your paint.
#3 Fix paint.

First, when handling cats around Porsches use the below tool made for this purpose:

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:D Next, at worst it will need some color sanding, minor polishing and all should be well unless the cat claws went all the way through the paint in which case you should give the cat away humanely like this:

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Ahem..1st what paint is it reg. or base coat clear coat (I hope) "if all else fails this trick works...get the proper collor, dab in the scatches with your favorit aplicator have some clear coat with you ( I rob it from my favorit body shop as there is allways some left over- call 1st ) dab the clear in/on wait till it kicks,block it dwn, buff, lil wax and poof know one will ever be able to tell.

Wow. Thanks for the tips. I am no longer feverish about what happened. Yesterday I was in a funk, a deep anti-cat funk.

Given my past history with paint, not good, I think I'll check with some body shop friends of mine.

Bell, send Apache on over. You're not too far away.

Wellborn

You can also try paintscratch.com. For about $25 you can get a kit that come with two "pens" one basecoat & one clearcoat.

If you have no experience with buffing out scratches..... dont practice on a car you care about. Stop by a small body shop... shake some hands, see if they will do it right there. takes 2 minutes by a pro.

As for an orbital . ..911 fenders have all curves. Practice on an old car... or wifes.

Buffing is an art. HAND BUFFING DOESN"T WORK, never consistent.... ask a pro.

I hate when these threads deteriorate into animal bashing hating from idiots who are just plain cold hearted with extremely ball less smalldickked low self esteem....

I agree with ken_xman, Do not mess with it unless you are a pro. Where is Hudson? I am just north of Toledo and can help you out.

I agree with the body-shop solution for the scratches. (Or de-claw the cat and tie it to a 10-inch polisher and see if you can get the scratches out using the culprit as a buffer)
Good replies. I am no friend of cats; they are not a natural ingredient in the environment; they kill needlessly, especially song-birds, garden snakes, etc.
Cats are a man-made nuisance. The unneutered males spray and stink up your front door or porch. Female cats, when not spayed, produce unbelievable amouts of kittens. Yes, cats are a man-made problem.
Every year, a few wild ones come through and hang around my 30 plus bird houses. A 22 caliber is pretty good in such cases.
No sympathy for cats.

Tell ya what, why don't you go hang out with forest creatures like Timothy Treadwell did, and leave the higher order thinking skills to the rest of us. I'm sure Mr. Fuzzy is missing the quality time they spent together. Nice grizzly. SmileWavy

lol...dan..you made me spit my coffee! :)
ryan

I agree completely. And your post already flushed out one extra moron - maybe there will be more. Animal abuse is a crime - with jail time.

yes, but staged, ironic humor isn't. relax, guys..i don't think we're out loading guns and setting traps due to reading this post..lol.
ryan

I'm not weighing in on the animal issue at all, it's the social ineptitude that I'm taking issue with. He would have been much better off saying,

"I realize that most of you are kidding, at least I hope you are; but please realize that some of us are very sensitive to remarks made about animals and you may unintentionally offend someone."

Attacking people is hardly an effective means of helping them see your point of view.

to insist upon total political correctness on a bbs..is, well..i think an exercise in futility, no?

postscript: no animals were harmed, either implied or intentionally during the posting to this thread..

Cats are not on the "Endangered Species List" but many, many animals are. Lots of other life-forms are dying because of man-made problems such as not spaying, or neutering pets.
The oceans are depleted with "Clear-cut fishing" (Dredging) with huge nets so that pet food can be made.
However, this BBS is about Porsche stuff and so...................
Still no sympathy for cats.

cats were here b4 us..........we adopted them ....nuff bashing

OK I take back my over the top approach...I was just sitting there this morning with my cat peacefully purring on my chest... and saw some of the comments and posts on this thread and my language got a little forceful. Sorry if this offended anyone.

The original thread starter didnt intend to kick off a cat bashing orgy (though he did make a stupid joke)...but that is always inevitable as cats somehow are a threat to certain fragile male psyche for some reason or another.

BTW...I have car covers on my 911s when sitting in the garage at my apartment complex. Easy and cheap solution to protecting the car paint. Ask your wife to buy you one Jack!

LvSteve...so how is life on that odd little isolated planet of yours?

I can see how a level headed response free from profanity would seem odd to you. Feel free to come visit some time, it would do you some good. http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/...s/beerchug.gif

Yeah. I have a car cover, but the car was too dirty to put a cover on it. Shame on me.

I love Cat jokes. I love dog jokes. Our family owns one of each. Here's a good one and let's close the thread of this one.

One day Mrs. Jones notices Sally digging a big hole with a shovel. Mrs Jones asks Sally what's she doing to which Sally replys, "Burying my gold fish." Mrs. Jones then remarks, "but that's a really big hole for a gold fish." To which Sally smartly sez, "yeah but the gold fish was in your ****ing cat's stomach!"

The End.

Nope...staying away from the Kool-aid that you are guzzling.

Pussy Cat " The Other White Meat "


Vinnie From ventura 89 911 3.2 Silver Anniversary

:eek: :eek: HOLY CRAP!!!:eek: :eek:

I go away for a couple days and look what happens!

FIRST, as Ryan pointed out this was an attmept at humor - apparently a poor one judging from the open hostility it resulted in.

I love animals notwithstanding the size of my,....uh....er..."Richard"! (Uh oh, more ill advised humor). I have two Labradors at home and I have had a number of carts over the years. I'd have one or more right now but my gielfriend is allergic

Me thinks a few people here have their BVDS's on a little too tight. However, in the interest of diffusing this and not getting this thread banned (I'm already on the raw edge of that):

I really do, sincerely apologize if I offended anyone. I was just trying to get a laugh from the original poster to ease his angst.

Believe me, when I came home to find my then 6 month old Lab sitting on the roof of my old 944 and the next week found him in the yard chewing on the front license plate off my girlfriend's Audi TT I was more than a little torqued out of shape. He is alive and well, I didn't give him to the dog pound or beat him or anything. Geeez
SmileWavy

A big shout out to Ryan for attempting to defend me in my absence. I guess we now know why my car collections do not rival Jerry Seinfeld's or Jay Leno's, huh?

Ryan, I like you more and more and I've never even met you. Your comment hit the nail EXACTLY on the head (not an animal's head). I guess we must think alike! Why else would we be driving these awful, terrible, horrible, worst-of-the-genre Mid Year cars unless we did? No kidding, thanks Ryan.

Danhttp://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/men_ani.gif

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"Cat Scratched Paint - How To Fix"

IHMO, fixing the cat will not keep it from scratching your car. However, fixing the cat will keep it from breeding and producing more P-Car scratching animals :D

My dogs have their own bedroom and I have adopted several from the local spca. As much as I love animals, it amazes me that some people put them above the health, welfare, and consideration of other human beings.

Cats have only one use for humans A.F.D. Automated Food Dispenser. Any appearance of affection is simply an attempt at activating the aforementioned A.F.D.

And just in case anyone takes offense to the following image, my sister is a proud participant in the special olypmics.

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Now Jim..............be advised that these attempts at humor can have serious side effects. Apparently the temperature in your cardiac cavity may drop precipitously, your gonads are subject to dissapearence and the size of your uh....er...."gold member"?...well, lets just say it may change.:D

SonicDB - I am just busting your balls man. I (later) read your disclaimer on the tone of your response and I am completely cool with it. We all have our days! Hell, if we didn't razz the hell out of each other - particuallry when someone gets a little wound up - what fun would it be? So I am cool if you are. - Dan

P.S. Serious kudos to your colorful, borderline-but-not-bad-enough-to-get-censored web cursing.

lvSteve - Oh man, that is SO politcally incorrect...and pretty damn funny too!

The problem with a bbs or Email is that no one can tell if comments are just ironic or more serious. In person you can see the speaker's face; by phone you can hear voice inflections.

True, but then to react so strongly can only set in motion a set of strong reactions. Believe me, I know. I have been the one to express a strong reaction in the past and I've been called out about it...and from "the man" too! I'll leave it at that but, lvSteveH's picture - despite its questionable taste - is not only funny but pretty accurate (and yes, I still think it is funny despite nothing but empathy for developmentally disabled persons).

Its why talkradio works. Just say something outrageous and sit back and wait for all the pent up confusion, frustration, anger and emotion to come venting out.....which only perpetuates another round of...? confusion, frustration, anger and emotion. Hence, ratings and MONEY.

To return to the original post. Don't hurt the cat, it had no intention of damaging anything it was just trying to keep from sliding off the car.