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100% perfect absolutely no swirls and tiny scratches !!!!
Under normal conditions I cans still find tiny bits of left over
Swirls and very tint scratches. I have a sure fire led light with 240
Lumens. I can still SEE them. Rather than drive myself crazy please
Tell me if Mike would polish my car would it be 100%
I know it's left to the satisfaction of the personal self, however what is acceptable for the normal person ???
PLEASE HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY
 
You're not going to get 100%. Quit cleaning and go for a drive
 
Just in case you wanted to know, I have a red 2010 Camaro. Everyone thinks it looks stunning except me when I look real close !!!!! LOL
 
Yep, what flash said!

Is your camero a DD? If so, you spend the time to get it to 98% perfect and then a person brushes against it in the parking lot and bam, light surface scratches. All that time and effort ruined since your back at the 95% you were at before the 20 hours of work to get that 3 extra percent!
 
No it is not a dd. I would like to know what 98% looks like. I think that
Would answer my question.
 
Sounds like we need to see pics :)

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How much stuff would you see on a 95% finished paint correction ??
 
Epkmvuoq said:
100% perfect absolutely no swirls and tiny scratches !!!! Under normal conditions I cans still find tiny bits of left over Swirls and very tint scratches. I have a sure fire led light with 240 Lumens. I can still SEE them. Rather than drive myself crazy please Tell me if Mike would polish my car would it be 100% I know it's left to the satisfaction of the personal self, however what is acceptable for the normal person ??? PLEASE HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY
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Zero swirls and tiny scratches is achievable but only on a show car, and only for a very short while. The wind blowing pollen across a finish like this will scratch it. Perfection, however is not achievable, and to subscribe to such a notion is often a sign of a delusional mind. Seriously, enjoy your work and go have some fun :dblthumb2:
 
Epkmvuoq said:
How much stuff would you see on a 95% finished paint correction ??
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I consider my paint 95% on my DD. You can count the swirl marks on one hand....IF you can even find them :D. My extremely few swirl marks are not in the shape of a swirl, instead they are in straight lines so it is really hard to see them. I could polish them away easily, but why take any clear off if its not needed? Plus since mine is a DD I want to save the CC for any future polising that may be required, you never know what is going to happen to it. I consider 95% when very, very little defects are there and they can not be seen unless you have the "right light".

I recently did a maintenance polish with sf4500 so I literally viewed every single straight line swirl mark on my car. You can count with one hand. If I had a $100k GTR as a garage queen, I would be happy with the GTR in the same condition of my DD. Same for your Camaro...get it 95% and burn some rubber!!! :xyxthumbs:
 
-Is it your fear of disapproval by others, that causes your excessive need for 100%-perfection (OCPD)?

Sure...Other factors, like: biological, environmental, etc., play an important role in shaping this type of personality.

And: Parents---YES!! Let's put at least some, if not all, of the blame on the parents!

-I'll suggest:
Shoulds? Give up the shoulds!!

I find it best to try to live my life without those nagging thoughts of 'I should have done this, that, or the other'...all in order to achieve some kind of perfection...let alone 100% perfection

I take due notice of any "shoulds", and make a conscious choice about whether they are really something in the realm of being life-or-death...
or just the effect from residual, societal-shoulds that I'm just holding on to. You know...
"A Clockwork Orange"; "Dark City"; "1984"; "The Illuminati"...sort of marketing-programmes'-shoulds.

-And, after all:
There is only so much clear-coat paint to continually be attempting to: "perfect", until you run out of it!!


Bob
 
I can polish my car to 100% perfection.


Then I have to wipe the used polish off, which causes me to have to start all over.
 
Thank you guys so much. By the way I am 65 yrs old but a very particular person and very prideful. My car looks better than 99.999% better than any car within 50 miles. Easy in Louisiana because most everything is covered with sugarcane mud. Lol. I have absolutely no competition to compair.
I mostly see those bits and pieces of straight lines also. It is close to being swirl free. The problem is that I have nothing to compare. I go to all car shows here to look at beautiful 69 Camaros absolutely full of swirls. Most think a flex is a possible exercise machine. NO CLUE.
This is why it important for me to see Autogeek guys cars like you.
 
If you find a few defects only by using a light and looking for them 2 inches away then I say enough already. Lol
I've been there, just recently figured out it's not always wise to work for a 100% defect free finish but more like 85-90 on DD.
Like one said, even if you were to get it 100% defect free it's short lived.
 
To put this in perspective, I have seen one car in person in the last 5 years that I would rate 95%. Once you get past about 85% the game changes drastically. The difference between 85 and 95 is night and day.
 
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