Last weekend while traveling down the highway, a hawk swooped out of the sky into the grass in the median, then almost immediately flew right into the road in front of my car. I swerved and avoided a dead-center windshield impact, but unfortunately, it impacted my car windshield on the lower passenger side.
On a positive note, it did not crack the windshield.
The bad part is that is rode up the passenger side of the hood before it hit the windshield. The metal trim ring on the hood has some small dents in it, and there are some long scratches starting just above the headlight all the way up.
The trim ring for the hood is only a $25 part which isn't bad, so I've got that taken care of.
My question is about getting the scratches out.
The scraches are very light and increase in depth the farther up the hood they go. As far as I can tell, they are not through the paint. I tried to take some pictures, but my car is so blindingly shiney
that the scratches don't show up.
I have currently at my disposal the following items:
PC Polisher w/ assortment of pads
Most Prima products... Swirl, Amigo, Epic etc....
Up to this point, I haven't had to take any scratches like this out of the paint. I've simply had to do upkeep type of paint work. I am looking for some guidance on how to best proceed. What I should be looking for, how to step things up to get the deeper scratches smoothed out, what products to use, etc...
Any help is appreciated!
