Key marks

[clk320x]

Proper job. Now cut your nails or stop wearing false ones

It's not me promise

Previous owner was a women, put 2 and 2 together :bannana:

Cheers

 

[GLK]

I little while ago I bought a set of clear plastic inserts to protect against this sort of things, but never got around fitting them ... need new doors anyway

 

[clk320x]

I little while ago I bought a set of clear plastic inserts to protect against this sort of things, but never got around fitting them ... need new doors anyway

New doors?

 

[GLK]

New doors?

Rust at the bottom, due to the stupid "wavy" weld seal, is not going to go away, and the cost of [attempting] to fix the existing ones, is basically the same as replacing them with a pair of 2009-2011 ones, which had a different weld type and do not suffer from rust ...

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Yep, right solution.....

Tesco polish (£2 and bought a while back when only shop near/open was Tesco haha On top of microfibres) quick hand polish (20 seconds max)
Like new! Then finished with SONAX detailer

Some of the reactions were good examples of people over-compensating.

Those fingernail marks are routine on cars that haven't been maintained with a protection coat.

All that was needed was just a quick polish (not necessarily a cutting compound and certainly not any kind of tool), to lift the dirt, and then a coat to protect / seal.

The only two points to add are that a second coat of Sonax detailer in a week or two's time will give you some extra protection to stop it happening again. (Although TBH what you had here was probably just a one off from the previous owner).

And that something like Sonax net shield would have done a brighter job that the Sonar detailer, but on such a small job anyone would just grab whatever protection coat you have in the cupboard.