swirls? Can you totally avoid them?

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The question is can you totally avoid surface swirl induced from hand washing or just reduce them ? I use the foam gun pre soak, Two bucket wash method with lambs wool mitts, and guzzler micro fiber drying towels. But I still notice light surface swirls . So can you completely avoid these or do you just have to live with them ? I know the only real way is to not touch the car at all but that is impossible . Unless i was a mutant with powers that could look at something and make it clean lol.
 
Ditch the foam gun and get a pressure washer. It will knock of 99% of the abrasives that cause swirls. You'll be amazed at how carelessly you can wash your car once the abrasives are gone.
 
O I do have a pw . I use a foam cannon . i rinse first and the presoak.
 
If you touch the car, sorry to say, but you risk the potential of inducing some swirls... even if they are so minor that you can only see them at a particular angle at a particular time of day and you have to squint your eyes to catch it... it just happens over time.
 
zmcgovern45 said:
If you touch the car, sorry to say, but you risk the potential of inducing some swirls... even if they are so minor that you can only see them at a particular angle at a particular time of day and you have to squint your eyes to catch it... it just happens over time.
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:iagree:...Unless your car is a "Garage Queen" that rarely gets touched, chances are, over time, some marring will be introduced during your wash. As all others have suggested, be careful, take your time and power off as much as possible before using your wash mitt.
 
yakky said:
Ditch the foam gun and get a pressure washer. It will knock of 99% of the abrasives that cause swirls. You'll be amazed at how carelessly you can wash your car once the abrasives are gone.
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yakky said:
Ditch the foam gun and get a pressure washer. It will knock of 99% of the abrasives that cause swirls. You'll be amazed at how carelessly you can wash your car once the abrasives are gone.
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Couldn't agree more...
 
I do have a pressure washer . I do a pressure wash rinse then I presoak with honey dew soap . Then two bucket wash and then pw rinse and sheet method . Then guzzler mf drying towel .

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Mr. Perfect (of course!) always performed:
"The Perfect Car Washing and Drying Sessions".

However...
As soon as his vehicles were driven...
They were immediately bombarded with
contaminates, from every imaginable source...
that instilled swirls, marring, blemishes, etc.


IMHO...If you, OP, use the best methods, products, practices...
You'll see improvements as time goes on.

NOTE:
As I neglected to do when I was younger...
I now keep the fact that time does go on...
Fleetingly so, I'll add.


And...afterall:
No one can ever be another: Mr. Perfect


Mr.-Perfect.jpg


:)

Bob
 
Too funny!

To add to the proper washing school of thought: proper drying. Use a sheet rinse. Your back will thank you just as much as your paint.

At that....avoiding entirely? Not possible.
 
jgibson2980 said:
I do have a pressure washer . I do a pressure wash rinse then I presoak with honey dew soap . Then two bucket wash and then pw rinse and sheet method . Then guzzler mf drying towel .
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If you do all that and are still getting swirls, something is wrong. You'll get the occasional one here and there from life events, but you shouldn't have any wash induced marring (unless you have stupid soft paint).
 
jgibson2980 said:
The question is can you totally avoid surface swirl induced from hand washing or just reduce them ? I use the foam gun pre soak, Two bucket wash method with lambs wool mitts, and guzzler micro fiber drying towels. But I still notice light surface swirls . So can you completely avoid these or do you just have to live with them ? I know the only real way is to not touch the car at all but that is impossible . Unless i was a mutant with powers that could look at something and make it clean lol.
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Daily driver my answer will be reduce hem. Like others have said proper techniques will really help. The hardness of your paint and color is a big factor. My guess would be in your case soft CC and black paint! (A never ending battle, you'd be betteer off with those "mutant powers").
 
The vehicle is a 2012 Dodge Durango RT matalic black in color . Its about time for a wax . The swirls are lil and only visible at certain light and angles . I wash and dry the car of with no pressure but my on hand weight and in up and down motion in the direction that the wind moves over the vehicle .

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I check under my car every night for the swirl monster......
 
jgibson2980 said:
The vehicle is a 2012 Dodge Durango RT matalic black in color . Its about time for a wax . The swirls are lil and only visible at certain light and angles . I wash and dry the car of with no pressure but my on hand weight and in up and down motion in the direction that the wind moves over the vehicle .

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Sounds like a good AIO is in order, maybe DG #501 or 105 for instance, even Black Light. With the light swirls use of a machine like the 6" GG RO w/ polishing pads would help speed things up a bit when used with either of these products. The suuestions I posted don't really have too much cutting but since the swirls are so light they should come out with a moderate speed setting. If doing it by hand, well, they might not come all out though.

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Yeah I see stuff like that all the time . One of my clients has a black 2011 vw jetta tdi . He traded in his 2012 mustang gt for it . Will his vw paint is trashed halograms all over it. I've talked to him about paint correction . He seem interested

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I was fighting that battle on my black tundra, it didn't matter how careful or redundant I was, so I Opti-Coated it. So far so good. Now my wifes silver Acura, I can be as careless as I want and it doesn't swirl, but it's been repainted with a hard clearcoat.
 
sears4976 said:
I was fighting that battle on my black tundra, it didn't matter how careful or redundant I was, so I Opti-Coated it. So far so good. Now my wifes silver Acura, I can be as careless as I want and it doesn't swirl, but it's been repainted with a hard clearcoat.
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2.0? I polished my dads black tundra to perfection but its horrific how easily it gets scratches. Think I'm gonna hydrO2 it.
 
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