Irritated with swirl marks on new paint!

[Mydnyghte]

After a six month stint in the shop, my car is back in my hands and has a whole new paint scheme. I washed it for the first time with my Foamaster gun a couple weeks ago, and it worked great! Come to find out though that my drying cloths I had been using decided not to do their job that well, I guess since they sat in a tupperware container for the duration of my cars absence. So I figured I would wash all of them and things would be good. Today I washed it, and my drying towels did bad. They moved the water around as opposed to picking it up. What I was using was those Megs towels with the waffle pattern, but they are in the garbage now. Reason being, after I got the car dry, I found tons of small swirl marks in the paint where I had dried it, boy was I unhappy.

I've got some Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover, and the Finishing Polish, but I was wondering if there would not be something better suited for just small spot jobs? Oh and I will be investing in some new towels from this site of course

 

[jaguarcult]

Try Pinnacles Paintwork Cleansing Lotion. It's very gentle and effective at removal of small sratches from towels. You're probably better off polishing the whole car with PCL since your towles touched and abradded all parts of the paint. The other advantage to PCL is it already includes a glaze, so you can go straight to your choice of Soveran ( liquid or paste ). If you have a Porter Cable 7424 then you should use it over application manually. It's easier, more consistant and should provide better results.

Hope this helps

 

[ehuth1]

nice car !! I agree with jaguarcult. If you decide to go with ASR just work it slow and take your time. The results are in the hand that works it slow.

 

[Mydnyghte]

Paintwork cleansing lotion, that I will give a try. Any specific pads that should be used with that stuff? I've got the Porter Cable buffer with a white and an orange pad, would either of those be fine?

I appreciate the help, heres a nannerIm the MAN

 

[Bobjones]

Paintwork cleansing lotion is a paint cleaner not a polish, it removes slight water spots and old waxes but wash induced swirls are unlikely to be reduced, even with using a polishing pad, I would go for the final polish, not the advanced swirl remover, with a white pad LC pad, if they remain then go for the ASR, do a test area of the worst of the swirls, work the polish and then assess.