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Taking car to a paint shop . They have a 90 degree body buffer
With a big buffing polishing wheel on it . If you don't know what you're doing you can screw the paint up big time ( burn through )
I tried a Porter cable Orbital buffer orange and white pads
With different grit polishes. Helped but still there . I'm afraid to go more aggressive . This is where a body shop Comes in .
Telephone quotes $200 to $300 to wheel out .
The black pad is the polishing pad and is the final one before hand waxing. Someone skipped a step if you have swirl marks. Fine fine compound with the black pad. And just remember to keep moving. When you stop in one spot, that's when you risk burn through. Keep it moving and you will be just fine. Once you do it and see your success, you'll be happy you did.
If you own a Black vehicle, this is THE one to have...ZYMOL Carbon wax. It retails for about $50 for 8 oz. I've tried them all over the last 35 years, this is the best I've found thus far. And I currently own 3 Black vehicles. No polishing, no clay bar, just waxing.
A pic of the trunk lid of my '10 Grand Sport:
Last edited by Orange Skullz; 06-20-2016 at 11:17 AM.
If you own a Black vehicle, this is THE one to have...ZYMOL Carbon wax. It retails for about $50 for 8 oz. I've tried them all over the last 35 years, this is the best I've found thus far. And I currently own 3 Black vehicles. No polishing, no clay bar, just waxing.
A pic of the trunk lid of my '10 Grand Sport:
No wax by itself will not hide swirls and holograms. You must correct the paint with machine polishing to remove the imperfections before the wax. Wax is a protection for the corrected paint surface. There are no short cuts to a defect free shine. Will spend up to 12 hours depending on how bad the paint is (Black is the worst). Late model Corvettes are very time consuming because of the ceramic clear coat.
Its time for my regular wax thread input. Give me a black hood and i'll wax 1/2 of it with a bottle/can of $5000.00 super-dooper-pooper wax....and then i'll wax the other 1/2 with a $10 bottle/can of good ol Mothers or a reasonably priced wax and I doubt one could tell the difference....
No wax by itself will not hide swirls and holograms. You must correct the paint with machine polishing to remove the imperfections before the wax. Wax is a protection for the corrected paint surface. There are no short cuts to a defect free shine. Will spend up to 12 hours depending on how bad the paint is (Black is the worst). Late model Corvettes are very time consuming because of the ceramic clear coat.
Maybe not a wax....but a fill-in glaze will....and its a heck of a lot easier than going through all the "correction" work.....
Its time for my regular wax thread input. Give me a black hood and i'll wax 1/2 of it with a bottle/can of $5000.00 super-dooper-pooper wax....and then i'll wax the other 1/2 with a $10 bottle/can of good ol Mothers or a reasonably priced wax and I doubt one could tell the difference....
If the condition of the paint on both sides of the hood is equal you most likely can't tell a whole lot of difference in the shine. Sometimes the $10 product will produce the same shine as the super-dooper wax.
I've been using this wax for a little over a year...it's a good wax...but I didn't notice any difference over what I was using (Wolfgang Fuzion). In either case I'm glad you got great results...
06-20-2016, 02:29 AM
