2014 Toyota Highlander with hard paint...

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SuperGlide

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Usually Toyota paint is mid to soft from my experience, but not this one...

This Highlander is black with blue Metallic. The combo that finally worked was a finish pad and compound to get swirl removal. Tomorrow I'm going to finish it off with a finish polish.

Has anyone ever experienced something like this on new Toyota paint?
 
Not unless it's had a ceramic coating or similar. As you said, they're usually pretty soft. Did you take any depth readings?
 
Niblick said:
Not unless it's had a ceramic coating or similar. As you said, they're usually pretty soft. Did you take any depth readings?
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I'm the first one to touch it. After polishing it's getting Opti-Coat.
 
Curious. You could google the paint code and see if it's a custom color I guess. That might explain it. My Toyota van is, but it's still soft as butter lol
 
SuperGlide said:
Usually Toyota paint is mid to soft from my experience, but not this one...

This Highlander is black with blue Metallic. The combo that finally worked was a finish pad and compound to get swirl removal. Tomorrow I'm going to finish it off with a finish polish.

Has anyone ever experienced something like this on new Toyota paint?
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My wife's 2012 Avalon has harder paint than I expected. We've had it just over a year now and I decided to polish out some very light swirls and coat it with CQUK. To my surprise a white hybrid and Sonax 3/6 did pretty much nothing. Same polish with a blue pad did the trick though.
 
That is surprising to hear. Our 2014 with Crimson paint is very soft. I can do a lot of correction with a polishing pad and Meguiars Ultimate Polish.
 
I recently did a 2013 Prius with the Blizzard Pearl paint.

I found the paint to be on the hard side. Even a medium polish/cutting foam was not touching the RIDS.
 
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