so mad now....

[93XLEcamry]

yesterday i was trying to take some residue or old glue off my car....long story short, i dumbheadbang: and started sanding off the old residue, it took some off, but noticed that my clear coat came off too....., so now there is a spot on my trunk that is clear coatless and it looks nasstttyyy......

my question is, is there any way to make it look like it has clear coat again...or am i stuck with this???

im dumb

[eyezack87]

Only way is to respray that portion

[humanoid]

Why would you use sandpaper in the first place? There would be other things like GooGone, WD-40 etc. before I do anything like using sandpaper. Like eyezack said earlier, the only way is to repaint the affected portion of the car.

[PhatRoyale]

Time to re-clear it.

[Dana_15]

Wow, for future reference use 3M Adhesive Remover for removing glue. It's not cheap but it works much better than Goo Gone.

[eyeball96]

What Dana said

[93XLEcamry]

i was using 1k sand paper hoping it wouldnt do any damage....apprently i was wrong...i would repaint the spot but i had my car repainted a year ago and could not find the correct color...hard lesson learned...

[eyezack87]

Wayyy too low of a number. If I had to wetsand, I'd go only as low as 3000gritt. Otherwise I'll stick to 4000gritt and work slow but steadily

[270+Camry]

1k is low dude. hell just for somethin like headlight restorarion i run 2k. u can try to buff in some carnauba or getting a can of krylon clear gloss and trying your luck. like dana said though, for goo or adhesive leftover like when you debadge a car, 3m is the shit.

if its a small spot, id try to wax and buff it as much as possible but if you dulled down a huge spot, i would grab 2-3k sandpaper and wetsand the whole thing to an even dull then spray just the trunk with clear and hope for the best. if not have maaco play with it.

/EDIT- you went just through the clear right? the actual color part is still there right?