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So now I've just spent the last few hours hand polishing the entire car again, using Turtlewax liquid polish from the local hardware store
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Your car's paint is a very pretty color of purple and if you really want to showcase the car then you'll want to really get the clear layer of paint clear and this is best done by machine.
That said, you can take the results you're getting right now to an even higher level by hand if you want to but you'll need something besides the Turtlewax Liquid Polish. To date, these have proven themselves to be very effective for rubbing out clear coats by hand.
In the link provided above, I documented how to remove swirls out of a clear boat by hand and the process will work for you too and you can achieve machine-like results if you'll invest the time to thoroughly work the Ultimate Compound and only work small sections at a time.
Then follow that with the SwirlX using the same technique, thoroughly work the product over the finish and the apply a wax or paint sealant of your choice.
Clear coat paints are very scratch-sensitive and because there's a color coat under them, they show scratches and swirls to your eyes very easily.
It's up to you but I've probably taught more people how to remove swirls out of clear coat paints by hand than anyone on earth and I can tell you first hand, (no pun intended), it can be done you just have to invest the time.
I downloaded your Photobucket pictures and placed them into your gallery here on Autogeek so in the future we don't see red x's and so I could use them below and not worry about them turning into red x's
Here are EXTREME Fingermarks
Here's a shot of your car's door, if you look closely, it looks like it too has fingermarks.
Finger Marks
Finger Marks, also called
Leopard Spot Effect, are actually a type of
scratch-pattern left in the paint from using a product that's either too aggressive to be used by hand or not safe for clear coat paints.
The marks mimic the shape of your fingertips as they push down on some type of applicator pad while working a product over and into the paint. Finger Marks are inflicted into the paint anytime you stop the movement of the applicator pad for at this moment, as brief as it may be, there tends to be more pressure exerted to the fingertips at the point at which you either stopped moving your hand or changed the direction in which you're moving your hand.
This can happen if you apply products in a circular motion or in a back-and-forth, straight-line motion. It's not the direction of the motion, it's the stopping of motion or the change of direction of motion that the marks are imprinted into the paint.
It can also be caused by using too aggressive of a
material for an applicator, for example a coarse cloth like cheesecloth a red shop rag.
Cheesecloth
In the last year I met a gentleman that purchased some Cheesecloth at a PBE store that said on the package it was safe for clear coat finishes, he used the cheesecloth to apply a hand applied polish to the paint on his brand new black Porsche and ended up instilling finger marks everywhere he rubbed the paint.
Red Shop Rag
We all know you shouldn't apply paint care products to any type of paint using a red shop rag but I've met people that don't understand how easily clear coat paints are scratched and thus don't take the type of applicator or application material they're using into consideration. Automotive repair shops use a lot of shop rags, they're not always read, sometimes they gray or purple looking but they're all made out of fairly coarse material and it's not uncommon for some well-meaning mechanic to wipe or rub something off a car while it's in the shop for repair and in the process instill scratches and finger marks.
Coarse Rubbing Compounds
Old fashioned rubbing compounds in which the abrasives are hard and sharp will also cause Finger Marks when applied by hand. While most rubbing compounds have been reformulated to be safer than old style compounds that were commonly used on single stage paints before the 1980's, there are still zillions of cans of rubbing compound and polishing compound in garages and shops across the country that are used on clear coated cars because that's whats already out in the garage.
This is why you want to do a
Test Spot to the paint anytime you're using products you're unfamiliar with or working on paint you've never worked on before.
If the results from your Test Spot look good, then simply duplicate your process over the rest of the car. If the results from your Test Spot don't look good... aren't you glad you only worked on a small section?
The easiest and fastest way of course to create a show car finish on your car's paint for someone new to machine polishing would be to get a dual action polisher. I think Australia use 220 Volt correct?
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