Long time lurker. New member. This is going to be a great first post. So have doen thetraditional wash/was/occ clay for years without problems but on black cars there were always scratches.
So a couple years ago acquired a couple black Porsches, a 2009 911 and a 2016 Macan. And fgiured I would remove the swirls. Strted with polishing compound by hand (after wash and clay), no luck, swirl remover, no luck, Meguairs compound, no luck. OK, maybe by hand is not enough. Got the drill attachment DA last year and went through the same process of chemicals. No luck. This was last year. Then winter hit. So wife went out of town last week and left me with the Macan for a week and I figured I would learn to do it the right way. With the ultimate goal of putting a ceramic coat on a perfect finish.
In preparation I watched a ton of you tube videos - to the point of being obsessed. I thought watching a lot of videos over and over would make me an expert. I learned it does not work that way.
So last week started with the same sequence of wash, clay, compound, polish, etc with the drill activated DA and after I put the wax on I still had scratches/swirls. So I put tape on to see If I was making new scratches with bad towels or what the heck was I doing wrong? After removing the tape and comparing before and after I found that I could make the scratches lighter a litlle and I was not creating new ones.
This led to a couple conclusions - on a metallic black Porsche Macan.
1-The worry I was going to get through the clear coat with so many repeated treatments left my mind, heck, I could not get deep enough to remove the ones already there
2-all the washing, claying, compounding, polishing, waxing was not adding new scratches (thank god)
3-macan clear coat is really hard
4-I suck at detailing
5-my only conclusion for the cause of the scratches in my wife takes the car to an auto car wash every week when she gets gas
So she was coming home today so I put a coat of wax on last night and cried myself to sleep.
Don't get me wrong - car looks amazing, but in the right light you can still see the scratches
So now I am stuck between looking good enough or buying a true DA polisher and trying again.
So to summarize in one question - is it really possible to remove all the scratches or thye just get so faint you can't see them on the videos?
So a couple years ago acquired a couple black Porsches, a 2009 911 and a 2016 Macan. And fgiured I would remove the swirls. Strted with polishing compound by hand (after wash and clay), no luck, swirl remover, no luck, Meguairs compound, no luck. OK, maybe by hand is not enough. Got the drill attachment DA last year and went through the same process of chemicals. No luck. This was last year. Then winter hit. So wife went out of town last week and left me with the Macan for a week and I figured I would learn to do it the right way. With the ultimate goal of putting a ceramic coat on a perfect finish.
In preparation I watched a ton of you tube videos - to the point of being obsessed. I thought watching a lot of videos over and over would make me an expert. I learned it does not work that way.
So last week started with the same sequence of wash, clay, compound, polish, etc with the drill activated DA and after I put the wax on I still had scratches/swirls. So I put tape on to see If I was making new scratches with bad towels or what the heck was I doing wrong? After removing the tape and comparing before and after I found that I could make the scratches lighter a litlle and I was not creating new ones.
This led to a couple conclusions - on a metallic black Porsche Macan.
1-The worry I was going to get through the clear coat with so many repeated treatments left my mind, heck, I could not get deep enough to remove the ones already there
2-all the washing, claying, compounding, polishing, waxing was not adding new scratches (thank god)
3-macan clear coat is really hard
4-I suck at detailing
5-my only conclusion for the cause of the scratches in my wife takes the car to an auto car wash every week when she gets gas
So she was coming home today so I put a coat of wax on last night and cried myself to sleep.
Don't get me wrong - car looks amazing, but in the right light you can still see the scratches
So now I am stuck between looking good enough or buying a true DA polisher and trying again.
So to summarize in one question - is it really possible to remove all the scratches or thye just get so faint you can't see them on the videos?