Can this be cleaned?

topsyt

topsyt

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Just bought a 2014 Ford Focus, Oxford White. The bumper cover and other painted plastic parts like the mirror caps appear to be permanently stained by bug splatters.

I used a Mothers Clay bar, Meguiars 105 with a Porter Cable Polisher and the most aggressive Lake Country pad that I have.

I`m assuming that this probably can`t be improved upon much, if at all?

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The pad is a "coarse green" 78-34650DA CCS Coarse, the porter cable speed was on 5. It worked great on removing paint scuffs on the painted metal body parts. On scuffs and the splatters above, I go over the area with the pad flat, if that doesn`t work, then tilt it and work the edge of the pad into the scuff.
 
All got the horse before the cart. Use a 30-60X magnifier first to see if the bug acids have eaten deep in the paint film. Often no amount of compounding, etcis going to replace paint eaten away.
 
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