Mike Phillips
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- Dec 5, 2022
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Holograms & scratches put into your car by someone else should be a crime
For the last 10 years I've described the holograms and scratches inflicted into a person's car by someone that works at a body shop, detail shop or dealership as a Horror Story but actually it's a crime because it's destruction of personal property.
Scratches are missing paint. Period.
Paint is missing because the person doing the work used too aggressive of products, pads and tools to either buff or wash a car and a lot of time also used bad technique.
Putting scratches into a person's car is really a bad thing to do because in order to remove the scratches you have to remove MORE paint.
Now follow me on this...
Factory clearcoat paints are thin. Typically thinner than a 3M Post-it Note.
So when a Dealership, a Bodyshop or a Detailer puts swirls into your car's paint either by how they wash it, wipe it or buff-it out they are NEEDLESSLY removing perfectly good paint because scratches are areas of paint that has been removed.
Now follow me even closer...
In order to remove the scratches you must level the paint until the top surface of the paint is level with the lowest depths of the deepest scratches.
Now you're removing MORE paint to fix a problem someone else caused to your car's already thin paint.
Paint is thin. All the factory UV protection is in the clear layer of paint. The more clear that is removed the less factory UV protection that is left to stabilize and protect the entire matrix of paint, (clear/base/primer).
See page 2 of this article,
Beginning Clearcoat Failure
How much does a quality paint job cost?
Go around to several high-end and custom body shops and get an estimate for a "good" paint job. I'll guess $3000.00 will be on the LOW end.
Go to a few local car shows, find some nice street rods, inspect the paint, when you find a few with really nice paint ask the owners for the name of the shop or person that did the body and paint work. Go to this person and ask them what a "good" paint job would be for your car and you're going to find out that to repaint your brand new car, no matter what it is, Ford Focus or Honda Accord, you're going to be looking at some serious money.
The point?
You and I can't change the industry, that means we can't do anything to make or force all detail shops, body shops and dealerships do good work and by do good work I mean work on car paint in a way that's non-destructive.
The next best thing we can do is to be pro-active with our own cars and to help our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers by educating them when the opportunity presents itself.
For example your neighbor buys a new car. Print-out or send them the link to the article below or even this article you're reading right now.
DON'T WASH CAR !!!!!!!!!!!
Or this article,
DISO = The Dealership Installed Swirl Option
If you really want to be pro-active, lend them your copy of my how-to book...
The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine
The first chapters bring a complete newbie to car detailing up to speed with enough information about their car's clear coat finish to help them understand the importance of properly taking care of it. Whether they work on it or they pay someone to work on it.
:xyxthumbs:
For the last 10 years I've described the holograms and scratches inflicted into a person's car by someone that works at a body shop, detail shop or dealership as a Horror Story but actually it's a crime because it's destruction of personal property.
Scratches are missing paint. Period.
Paint is missing because the person doing the work used too aggressive of products, pads and tools to either buff or wash a car and a lot of time also used bad technique.
Putting scratches into a person's car is really a bad thing to do because in order to remove the scratches you have to remove MORE paint.
Now follow me on this...
Factory clearcoat paints are thin. Typically thinner than a 3M Post-it Note.
So when a Dealership, a Bodyshop or a Detailer puts swirls into your car's paint either by how they wash it, wipe it or buff-it out they are NEEDLESSLY removing perfectly good paint because scratches are areas of paint that has been removed.
Now follow me even closer...
In order to remove the scratches you must level the paint until the top surface of the paint is level with the lowest depths of the deepest scratches.
Now you're removing MORE paint to fix a problem someone else caused to your car's already thin paint.
Paint is thin. All the factory UV protection is in the clear layer of paint. The more clear that is removed the less factory UV protection that is left to stabilize and protect the entire matrix of paint, (clear/base/primer).
See page 2 of this article,
Beginning Clearcoat Failure
How much does a quality paint job cost?
Go around to several high-end and custom body shops and get an estimate for a "good" paint job. I'll guess $3000.00 will be on the LOW end.
Go to a few local car shows, find some nice street rods, inspect the paint, when you find a few with really nice paint ask the owners for the name of the shop or person that did the body and paint work. Go to this person and ask them what a "good" paint job would be for your car and you're going to find out that to repaint your brand new car, no matter what it is, Ford Focus or Honda Accord, you're going to be looking at some serious money.
The point?
You and I can't change the industry, that means we can't do anything to make or force all detail shops, body shops and dealerships do good work and by do good work I mean work on car paint in a way that's non-destructive.
The next best thing we can do is to be pro-active with our own cars and to help our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers by educating them when the opportunity presents itself.
For example your neighbor buys a new car. Print-out or send them the link to the article below or even this article you're reading right now.
DON'T WASH CAR !!!!!!!!!!!
Or this article,
DISO = The Dealership Installed Swirl Option
If you really want to be pro-active, lend them your copy of my how-to book...
The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine
The first chapters bring a complete newbie to car detailing up to speed with enough information about their car's clear coat finish to help them understand the importance of properly taking care of it. Whether they work on it or they pay someone to work on it.
:xyxthumbs:
