**URGENT** Run in at the track! **PICS***

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Cosmom3

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Ok guys...friend had a run in at the track with a Tire Wall.



Only products I have for scratches and paint deffects are as followed.



AIO

Clay

3M finesse IT

Scratchx





white, orange, blue pads.



I rather not wetsand so lets move around that one.



Im pretty sure by the looks I will need a more aggresive pad and polish, but Im gonna give it a shot either way.





Thanks for any help :bolt







EDIT: sorry for the big pics you guys I didnt realise how big they were.



Heres they are smaller.



http://www.aflux.net/images/tirewall/
 
It depends on the actual damage. If the tires in the wall had little stones in them, well the damage is deep, and needs to be repainted. If they are just scuffs, they can be removed or made less noticeable.
 
Bence said:
It depends on the actual damage. If the tires in the wall had little stones in them, well the damage is deep, and needs to be repainted. If they are just scuffs, they can be removed or made less noticeable.
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That's how it is.



Looks like lots of scuffs, everywhere!!! Which can easily be whacked.



But!



Several of them look like they could be deep to the metal scratches. Hard to say looking at pics, but the last one looks like it might have gone all the way through the paint on pronounced body features. You have to inspect for yourself if the paint is cosmetically scratched or deeper than can be polished out.
 
gtbaka said:
That's how it is.



Looks like lots of scuffs, everywhere!!! Which can easily be whacked.



But!



Several of them look like they could be deep to the metal scratches. Hard to say looking at pics, but the last one looks like it might have gone all the way through the paint on pronounced body features. You have to inspect for yourself if the paint is cosmetically scratched or deeper than can be polished out.
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Ya I now have a feel for what im going against now, but still wanted some opinons on the matter....



I guess all clay it...AIO for a couple passes and then whip out 3M on orange pad...and then try scratch-X on a blue pad....guess thats all I can do for now.



What else could I try?
 
twitch said:
Staying away from the tire wall.



:grinno: Sorry I couldn't resist.
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Its a friends car....better setup than any other person I know...but apex+puddle= bad times....or atleast thats what I believe to have happend :wall
 
Go Scratch-X orange at speed 6, see how it looks. Make passes until anything you can't feel with a fingernail almost disappears. Finish with the 3M on a white pad. If you can feel the scratches with a fingernail, you'll have to decide if you want to try to touchup, wetsand and buff to match, or have the entire panel repainted.
 
Bence said:
A puffer, placed in front of the concrete walls on racetracks. They soften the force of an impact.
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ah...so you're saying he would've wrecked his car hitting the wall instead of this "tire wall"...



and this guy is racing????? :think:
 
Bence said:
He hit the tire wall. It can seriously damage a vehicle (even total it) but helps to save life.
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exactly....maybe he should learn the :rules: first, and then race later.....I certainly wouldn

t want to wreck an M3, old or new
 
Unfortunately you don't know your limits until you have exceeded them. If you aren't driving at the limits, you could be going faster. Fine line between the two. Not bad for hitting a tire wall, I expected to see some dents, missing mirror...
 
Louie said:
Unfortunately you don't know your limits until you have exceeded them. If you aren't driving at the limits, you could be going faster. Fine line between the two....
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Going a few inches off the line is one thing (and means you blew it and got a crappy ET), but the only times I've left the track where when I was utterly stupid ;) The fastest guys I've ridden with (pros) were so smooth and within the bounds of control that you had to see their (near track-record) laptimes to know they were driving fast, it felt like a drive to church except for the g-forces.



But yeah, unexpected water can be something else, don't mean to sound all :nono about a situation I didn't witness :o
 
Louie said:
Unfortunately you don't know your limits until you have exceeded them. If you aren't driving at the limits, you could be going faster. Fine line between the two. Not bad for hitting a tire wall, I expected to see some dents, missing mirror...
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I'll stick with my highway racing...





And I'd tell your friend to try some compound with the PC and a cutting pad, if that don't work bring to body shop and suck it up as a lesson learned not to be a tard when racing
 
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