my first Lambo paint correction, have a question

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i have a customer who wants me to remove the swirls and scratches from his Lamborghini Murcielago. i did a test spot on it last night and was really having to work the paint to get any kind or correction. Do these cars have really hard clear coats?

my set up last night
PC 7424
menz fg400 / heavy polishing foam pad
Meguiars M105 / heaving polishing foam pad / microfiber finishing pad(picking up a set of cutting pads today)

also after i got most of the spider webs out of the paint the clear coat had little pock marks all over it. i inspected the rest of the car and found them all over the paint. is this normal for these cars?

 
I can only view the photo on my phone and I'm not getting a great feel for the size/scale of these marks, but just looking at it, my gut says solvent pop or similar defect. If so, that is way more solvent pop than I have ever seen on a car before.

Regardless of what is really is, this appear to be a defect IN the paint; it appears to go through the entire paint build from what I can see on a tiny screen. That said, there is nothing that a detailer can do to remove this. The resolution is a repaint or sell the car. Chasing after the defect will only reveal it to be deeper and you will be removing clearcoat with no result to show for it. Remove the scratches & swirls and call it a day.

Solvent pop is not an uncommon defect and may not be visible until you remove the scratches and swirls that your eye focuses on. There are many people who are disappointed to find this on their car after having it polished.

One good lesson to learn here (not just you, but anyone, myself included); be clear about paint correction and what you can remove. NEVER say you will polish the paint to perfection, or you will end up with disappointed customers whether it's your fault or not.
 




the pits are about the size of a needle tip. they almost blend into the metalic paint in the light. i'm going to talk with my customer this week to see what he would like to do.
 
Amazing what they charge for those cars, and that's the care they put into painting it.


Just goes to show how little the average person actually pays attention to the paint.
 
Generally Lambo paint is very good. I said GENERALLY, which could be factory, or the car may have been resprayed. What year is the Murcie and did anybody run a Carfax on it? Unfortunately, lots of these cars have been wrecked or in accidents over the years
 
Lamborghinis are sprayed by hand. No robots. You're going to find little imperfections in the paint.
 
This is from 2009, but I don't think anything in the process has changed

[ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wYtj5FX4ZVI"]Lamborghini's Master Painters - YouTube[/video]
 
Minus the nicks, that paint looks very pretty and flawless


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