Originally Posted by
ryansu
To go along with that- Years ago on a BMW forum- somebody's engine burned up. It was awful- I felt so bad for the guy- and I posted the "that'll buff out" thing... I don't think went over with the levity I thought it would.
Along THOSE lines... a parking gate hit my BMW and scratched and dented it. I was mad, sad and everything... With as many times over the years I've posted that- it didn't even ONCE occur to me to try buffing it out until someone legitimately suggested it to me. It was pretty amazing.
Originally Posted by The Golden Boy, post: 16159581, member: 7900
The other week, I was driving along minding my own business when I noticed a school bus full of children crash through a barricade and perched itself perilously upon the edge of a cliff. Being a man of action, I downshifted my car, popped a wheelie- got up to speed on two wheels- flipped my car up into the air- up the 80 foot cliff and struck the front tires of the school bus full of children... and their nuns- and the bus flipped up into the air and landed safely on the road.
Having done my good deed for the day I noticed that when I saved the school bus full of disabled children and their nuns, a slight bit of damage had been done to my car. Although it looked more like the arm of a parking gate had struck the side of my car on the front quarter panel and rear door- it was actually caused by dramatically saving a school bus full of left handed disabled children and their nuns.
Over the past week I've driven around with that badge of honor on my car. But today I decided to attempt to remove these heroically attained scratches by using some rubbing compound. Having used the phrase "it'll buff out" in all kinds of inappropriate settings, it's almost ironic that I've never actually attempted to buff out scratches... even though the scratches were from saving a school bus full of legless , left handed, disabled children and their nuns.
I got a bottle of the Meguiar's Ultimate Compound and these little terry cloth puffy buffing circle things. I watched a couple of YouTubes and just applied the stuff in the circular motion- a little pressure, but mostly just like I'd be applying shoe polish when spit shining boots.
Holy cow- I saw the results and I thought of all the dings and scratches I've just lived with over the years- when it seriously took less than 5 minutes to buff that **** out and wax it up and what I thought would be a thousand dollars in body damage was pretty much gone.
So now, instead of letting the badges of honor on my car tell the story of how I saved the school bus full of puppy dog eyed, orphaned, legless, left handed disabled children and their nuns... and supermodels- and although it looked like the arm of a parking gate struck my car- I am going to just live with just the memory of the lives I've saved.