•Make sure that your car exterior is clean, dry and cool to the touch.
•Inspect the surface of your vehicle for scratches, handling them one at a time unless they're all localized in one area.
•Section off each area that needs treatment with painter’s tape.
•Start with the scratch repair compound, adding a small amount of product to a cloth or applicator pad and rubbing it into scratched areas in overlapping, cross-hatching motions.
•Check your work. If scratches are still visible, apply the least aggressive pad, labelled with the highest number, using water as a liquid cleaner, moving in parallel and perpendicular passes.
•Once scratches have been removed, use the lower grit pads to smooth and polish any fine lines and swirls, finishing with a final buff using the scratch repair compound.
•Remove the painter’s tape and wipe down the entire corrected area(s).
•If desired, follow scratch repair treatment with a wax.