What are these dots in my paint?

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Hi Mike,

Take a look at the pictures, any idea what this is and if it's fixable?

I clayed a small section and polished with HD speed but it didn't really do anything.

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Your thoughts would be appreciated. As far as I know it has never been repainted, after claying and polishing it felt smoother but not buttery smooth.
 
If your talking about those tiny brown specks-- Thats Artillery Fungus
 
Talking about the dots/specks you can see at the perimeter of the light reflection.
 
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•ZANG! From here:
-It almost looks like the paint matrix, itself,
is coming undone/delaminating;
-do quite a few other areas, besides the ones
you posted, also have this paint anomaly?


Bob
 
Well that doesn't sound great. I don't have the best light but it's definitely all over my hood and think I saw it on the roof but I'd want to clean and clay a spot to be sure.
 
I don't know.

I've seen this before but don't have a great answer.

They are like pin holes THROUGH the paint, not ON the paint.

Because they are through or in the paint, compounding will take off good paint and just uncover more of the tiny pin holes.

My guess is the safest route is to do your normal detailing steps for the paint and learn to live with them or get a repaint or trade-in the car.


:dunno:
 
What kind of vehicle is it?
Are those marks in the clear coat, or the paint?
I have a similar situation on my Expedition...but I’m pretty sure the finish is not original and they are in the clear coat I believe. I clayed the heck out of it with no luck...after I buffed it out and brought back the luster in the clear coat, I was able to see them easier. The paint feels fine by hand, but with a baggie on I can still feel them. I’ll try and get a picture of it.
 
my guess would be a refinished panel, having a solvent pop or fisheye in the paint that wasnt not caught...then cleared. possibly a solvent pop all the way through...depending on the scenarios above.
 
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Best picture I could get with my phone...they are blurry, but what you are seeing is depressions in the clear that have filled in with product. Easier to see with the naked eye. Wish I had a better camera.
 
Stormin08 said:
my guess would be a refinished panel, having a solvent pop or fisheye in the paint that wasnt not caught...then cleared. possibly a solvent pop all the way through...depending on the scenarios above.
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Catmochanic said:
What kind of vehicle is it?
Are those marks in the clear coat, or the paint?
I have a similar situation on my Expedition...but I’m pretty sure the finish is not original and they are in the clear coat I believe. I clayed the heck out of it with no luck...after I buffed it out and brought back the luster in the clear coat, I was able to see them easier. The paint feels fine by hand, but with a baggie on I can still feel them. I’ll try and get a picture of it.
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It's a BMW. It's on every panel and when I bought the car I had a pre-purchase inspection done and they noted there was no sign of an accident history so I don't think it's from a respray. I've had the car for four years and this is the first time I noticed it so I have no idea when it happened or how (could have been like that when I bought it I suppose and I just never noticed). The only thing I can think is I park under a highway overpass and maybe something from that fell on my car? Cement particles that ate through but that is unlikely unless a highway overpass is different from a parking garage? I have no idea. Sucks though.
 
I’m a mechanic and I have done pre-purchase inspection’s for people in the past...I have a pretty good eye for paint that doesn’t match, gaps that aren’t symmetrical, overspray underneath vehicles where it’s usually never removed, etc.

Some of it is very obvious, some is hard to distinguish, I’m sure I missed quite a few as well, but if I did notice something I always filled out the report to say that.

A lot of times car lots will have an “touch up guy” who will come and paint various parts of the vehicles that have been marked up from previous owner’s (mainly bumper’s because they get the most abuse). The guy might put up an expandable tent for shade, but then just does all of the correction work and painting out in the open directly next to other vehicles.

I’ve seen that stuff carry quite a ways on windy days!

Those kind of repairs are not reported to the insurance company because no claim is ever made. Same way you can go to a body shop to have repairs done, pay cash, and it won’t get reported.

Not saying that your vehicle has or hasn’t been touched, it could have been near another vehicle that had been?

I suggest going to an auto body shop or two and get their opinions, they have a better trained eye on what to look for and what they are looking at.

Mine looks great from a few feet away, many people comment on it, I have decided to just live with it.


:)
 
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