This '99 996 is my personal daily driver and spends most every day parked at an oil refinery. I've made an attempt to remove the etching via polishing, but it was just too deep on the horizontal surfaces. Not too noticeable being silver, but you couldn't miss it once you were aware of it.

One note before the pictures: I'm a horrible photographer and silver is the color that i find the most difficult to capture a quality reflection.

The process was straight forward, nothing out of the ordinary for any of us.

• Light wet sanding of horizontal surfaces until etching was gone.
• Meguiars 105 with orange pad using KBM.
• Menzerna PO85 with green pad.
• HD Poxy applied with black finishing pad.

Etching up close:


Sanded:






After first pass:


Finished:












Thanks for looking.

Bobby

 

What grade of sandpaper did you use?

 

2500 grit took it all out, didn't have to start with anything more coarse.