Mercedes c 320 nightmare

[heckhole]

Finally ran into a nightmare car. Mercedes c320.
Black paint. Heavy swirls and holograms.

Orange pad and Cg34 hybrid did next to nothing. Wool pad created severe hazing obviously but I tried it on the hood and finished down with Optimum polish II and orange pad. White was creating a haze?? Looked great. I suspect the passenger side was a repaint because the paint was incredibly hard. Finishing was difficult. It was difficult to remove what I did with the wool pad. 5x more work than the hood. Driver side of the car was a breeze. Fenders were very hard to remove anything, especially the hazing from the wool pad.

I tried finishing with my porter cable and it wouldn't to a damn thing on the passenger side. Worked well on the driver side, hood and trunk.

I had about 10 hours into the car before I said enough was enough.

Really confused about what was happening. Was a big let down and I'm going to feel awful when my customer picks the car up tomorrow.

Anyone else run into this? I felt like I was getting absolutely no cut on the passenger side except for the wool.

 

[quiksilver_ben3]

Man, reminds me of a trans am I did. Only the passenger side was nice to work with. I ended up sanding the rest of the car. Never again.

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[heckhole]

First time I've run into this. It's not unusual for me to run into a door or maybe a hood that was harder to cut/finish than the rest of the car - but I usually can tell when it's coming from the first pass. I was able to get a good cut with the wool, all around the car. But I don't understand why the passenger side took 3-4 complete applications with orange to where you had to bob and weave under halogens to see the remaining marring. Trying to finish that out with a white pad was impossible. It did nothing. Crazy.

I recently had my personal car restored and the my friend who owns the shop had mentioned using a really hard clear...man am I glad I didn't go with that clear.