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I appreciate the advice. I honestly do just want to use a cover and just wash the car every 2 weeks. I think removing the cover that often or whenever its even a little windy will keep the paint from getting damaged. I think I will hold on to the cover and try it once I get a ceramic coating...

I'm not planning on doing the ONR wash if the car is really dirty. It gets like that when more than like 7-9 days have passed. If the car is really dirty, like right now I will: Spray ONR on the whole car (small sports car luckily) wait a minute or two and then use the jet setting w/ the...

Crispy! I think you just solved my dilemma! Thank you. I had never heard of ONR. Just researched it for about one hour and I'm convinced. Just ordered it :D I will end up giving the car a quick "touch up" rinseless wash every 5 days a full regular wash every few weeks and avoid this wicked...

Happy holiday weekend guys! I would love your expertise and opinions on this paint dilemma I have. Im not able to keep my beloved sports car indoors right now and of course there's construction going on around. It will be like this for months. I bought a custom-fitting car cover (Covercraft...

Just wanted to say my thread works! Took a while but forum has been so helpful don't mind at all. Thanks for fixing mods and admin peeps!

My thread was down for a week due to forum technical issues. Bumpy bump!

Thanks for the advice. I'll have to ask the guys on the corvette forum if the entire body is fiberglass. And about that 95%, I've been looking at the polished half and honestly once the wax goes on (which I'll be replacing w/ a Mernz deep polish and coat or sealant), it hides the last 5%...

I thought I was the only one. Trying to finish paint correction on my baby w/ some forum member advice and my thread doesn't load. I'm sure it will be fixed soon.

I used a machine for the first time recently. Just watch a few Youtube videos on it. make sure the machine is down on the paint w/ compound before firing her up (the thing I'd forget most). Its really not that hard. I def wouldn't do it by hand. I did my Vette w/ a DA/random orbital and it...

If I wouldn't have spent 8 hours on half of a small sports car already, I would have said that you made a cool vid but w/o any appreciation for how much hard work is really involved. What camera did you use? I'm going to buy one soon for some non-detailing projects. Great track selection, I...

Whats up Autogeek. I've polished HALF of my car like this: Griot's clay bar (didn't know about Iron SkunX until I joined forum) Megs Ultimate Compound Griots orange foam correction pad Griot's random orb - 5.5 inch adapter (standard is 6 inch) 3 to 3.5 speed, goes up to 5 or 6 So I chose a...

I wanted to say thanks again for the responses on this thread especially MarkD51. I even got a PM from one of you guys w/ more n more useful info. I didn't expect this much help! Freakin awesome. My detail is paused for now bc of being so busy w/ work. Any of you small busn owners would...

Well now you guys gave me some terms to look up I believe its pitting on a tiny scale. There seems to be nothing to solve it besides grinding away a lot at the clearcoat w a wool pad or something pretty aggressive. Car is 22, actually 23 yrs old ($#!t its almost as old as me haha) and paint...

Wednesday humpday bump in case anyone recognizes these things!

I appreciate all the responses guys. One of the top choices right now is Wolfgang uber based on this forum and the vette forum. Can anyone chime in on how long that usually lasts w/ good maintenance?

That's exactly what I'm doing! I thought I was just going to pick a coating fast and soon realized I"m just gonna have to wax the car after all the polishing is done and then strip the wax in a couple wks when I have the coating selected. I didn't even know how work intensive the 1st step polish...

Anyone else have this or know what it is?

Thanks for the pic, lets me know I'm not alone lol But yeah look straight up the same. I don't see them as anything stuck on the surface but I just bought IronX iron n metal crap remover to see if it doesn anything. It probably is just micro pitting =X

Thanks for all the replies in my other threads on what coat to go with. I noticed these little specs when I looked at my polishing results so far: You can only see them when there's light directly on them, where the light itself is seen in the reflection. Are these the iron holes or...

What 2nd polish would you guys recommend for this color? Just got pointed in the direction of Menzerna SF3800. If I'm gonna do all this work, might as well get that real "gloss like a boss" look :cruisin: