Hard Paint jobs

[stilltipping3]

What would you say are the top three hardest car paint jobs that you attempted to remove swirls on? What made them so hard?

 

[ken tuep]

I recently did a newer BMW. It was a metallic black. It would only correct with a wool pad and rotary. I used m105 for heavy defects (deep water etched stain). And some fairly insignificant swirls and scratches.

Also every Chevy I've come across with factory paint has been ridiculous.

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[Misael7]

Im pretty new to machine detailing but damn I thought my Escalade was pretty hard, I used M105 with Cyan LC Hydro pad and it got 85% corrected. Next time I'm going to try a MF buffing pad with WG uber to see how much it helps but overall I was happy with the results.

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[Bigbull2984]

New Acuras and Mercedes.
I personally owned 3 Acuras and my brother and sister have had them too. Also worked on many Hondas. Usually M205 and tangerine pad would take care of 60% to 70% or so of swirls with that combo.

BUT, I just got a 2013 Acura TL and the clear coat is super hard and one of the hardest paints I have worked on. M205 and Tagerine pad on speed six didn't do a thing to the paint.

 

[Desertnate]

If many of these clear coats are so hard, why do they swirl so easily?

I would have thought the same properties that make them difficult to polish would also make them more resistant to scratching/marring/swirls.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

If many of these clear coats are so hard, why do they swirl so easily?

I would have thought the same properties that make them difficult to polish would also make them more resistant to scratching/marring/swirls.

Do a search on this forum using the terms

scratch-sensitive



With the hyphen. You'll find the reason posted all over this forum as this is a common point of confusion.



Plus I just typed out this and posted it here,

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...-paint-correction-once-awhile.html#post951483

it's easy to get light scratches and swirls in the paint because modern clear coat paints are scratch-sensitive. Simply put, paint scratches easily and because most people have a clear coat, the basecoat or color coat makes it easy for your eyes to see the scratches on the top layer over it.

:xyxthumbs:

 

[Desertnate]

Thanks, Mike.

I plowed through a number of the posts under that search tearm. I also stumbled across a posting you nailed up at your former employer's forum back in 2008 that did a great job clarifying some of the questions I still had after reading threads here.