Can you “REALLY” Remove Car Scratches with T Cut?

33 thoughts on “Can you “REALLY” Remove Car Scratches with T Cut?”

1. T-cut when i used to nick it off my dad used to an ok job on light scratches . But these days it dont do 💩

2. HELLO COULD YOU TRY OUT THE HYDRO PRE AND SNOW FOAM WITH ONE OF THERE SPRAY BOTTLES PLEASE.

3. Blimey, blast from the past that !
   Used it on my old sheds but no way would I use it on my M2 lol …..

4. I used Tcut 40+ years ago in the motor trade. Modern paints and polishing compounds have changed but Tcut has it’s place, if you know how and when to use it. Modern abrasive polishes contain paraffins and waxes that hide light scratches and once evaporated will look much the same as Tcut. You are probably to young to remember Farecla G7🤣.

5. I used Korrosol fallout remover on my 1989 Ford Granada, and used T-cut after followed by wax. It made a hell of a difference (strato silver metallic)

6. Are you selling your TT because as of April this year it will cost £760 per year for road tax & you're hoping to catch some poor sod who is blissfully unaware of this?

7. 20 odd yrs ago i went for a job. Part of the interview was a test valet. Off i went to a dealership and had to clean a very dirty and sun faded red astra belmont. When i got round to the outside i asked if they had a buff. No just a tin of tcut. The old school stuff. Arms were aching but the car was red again lol.
   Offered the job the next day. Never took it 😂

8. Never knew you worked at Fulham Dave, "Zubi" is a blast from the past. I'm not surprised he fumbled the petrol pump at all, very on brand for him 😂 Any other funny stories from your time there?

9. As an apprentice mechanic many years ago; cleaning the company fleet was also part of my job. I was never allowed to use T-Cut on vehicles if they had metallic paint. It was deemed to 'strip the lacquer away'. Right or wrong, I still won't use it on metallics. Including my own car.

10. ' A bit of T Cut will remove that' A joke I still use when I see a car with a smashed up body panel.

11. If you dont know how to use t cut properly…how can you call yrself a car cleaner/valetor/detailer or whatever you guys call yrself nowdays😂basic stuff,not happy with t cut use g3 or 3m whatever floats yr boat,ever heard of flat&polish?

12. Firstly establish if the scratch has penetrated the clear coat and has impacted on the base coat and phosphate primer. Rule of thumb(pardon the pun) if you can get a finger nail to click across the scratch even flatting and polishing is unlikely to produce an acceptable finish,in my opinion after 55 years in vehicle refinishing.

13. T cut is great to remove faded outer layers of paint or lacquer. It's not great at scratch removal. T-cut and then polish with pigmented polish (eg colour magic) and you'll have a shiny car to sell.

    It's not a proper detail, but it's what most traders do. Mer is also very good and silicone oil for the blackwork

14. For minor scratches I work a little touch up paint into the scratch. I let it dry, then polish with a cutting compound. Then, once the excess paint is removed, a layer of wax. T-cut doesn’t hide scratches. I’ve also, in the past, ‘burned’ through the paint with T-cut, revealing primer. Use with care.

15. When T cut was being used most cars were solid colur and painted in Cellulose. Another youngster who does not know about the past .Limited knowledge but knows everything

16. T-cut has always been bad on modern paints it’s basically useless today on clear coats water/2k/water based paints it’s was ok back when paint was cellulose based and a solid colour without a clear lacquer..throw it in the bin if you have any

17. Please can you advise. What do you use to remove scuffs on the piano black on the dash and doors. Don’t want to try something that will leave it dull and wish I’d left it alone
    Thanks

18. I always found it fantastic – for drawing attention to the scratches you were trying to hide, but useless for eliminating them.

    It seems nothing has changed 😀

19. There was always 2 different T-Cut products to remove scratches. T-Cut for solid colours, that was sold in the red bottles & T-Cut for metallics, that was sold in a silver coloured bottle. I have used both over the years & if you use the right product it works well.

20. T cut was good in its day, I find that it`s not evolved and modern products on modern paints are much better going on and coming off

21. Yes you can, done it many times.

22. I used Jif once, now known as Cif, on a Ford Capri. Shined it up no end!

23. It was designed to remove oxidation on faded cellulose paint work.

24. Old thicker paint.

25. my father used to swear by t-cut back in the 80's, and even into the 20's, but personally I never seen an improvement in the 90's when looking at the finer detail of the paintwork, what did improve it was the polish afterwards but even that did not really remove the heavier scratches from bushes on country lanes which his car done nearly daily. whereas myself personally try to avoid country lanes where possible as too many people drive along them like idiots high speed middle of the lane, and never pull over because they never know how to drive or how to reverse 5 feet.

26. It is good for cleaning commutators on electric motors and that is about it.

27. its for old schoop paoint ie base colours bring them to shine eliniate bleaching and dulling thats all

28. i dont know where they got the idea it was a scratch remover just a wifes tale

29. i had the understanding its a paint renovater for base colour 2 pac paint ie van white base red or navy blue take out the bleaching being they werent clearcoated not for metalics or scratches

30. How much for the tt 👍?

31. Its very good at removing paint to paint marks out or scuff special on white vehicle i think that's why a lot of people use it and its not expensive.

32. Noooo…..not even going to watch anymore….enough said……

33. As long as you know the difference between a scratch ON the paint and a scratch IN the paint… You'll be fine. I can guarantee it's designed for a "transfer" scratch removal. I've not had a sniff of the stuff for decades but i remember it being very solventy. Thinners would do the same job & does, at removing transfer. As the video shows.. Scratch (in the paint) removal ❌ naff.

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