Greetings everyone, my name is Karl, I own a 2017 Mustang Ecoboost in Grabber Blue (best Ford blue IMHO) that's my DD in Michigan, and I have swirl OCD.
As a result, I've tried and spent many $$$ on many different ways to keep my car clean and swirl free over the last year through detailers. Be it Jetseal 109, and a ceramic coating that I ended up disliking because it's like covering your car in iPhones in that you have to use only specific products that you cannot buy in stores. I just find that even though they're really hydrophobic, they're very finicky, frustrating, and expensive. As a result, I'd like to save money by doing such things myself from now on.
Over the last few months, I've incurred many swirls and scratches from myself, the time my car spent in a dealership body shop, and my attempts at fixing said swirls by hand. I assume modern Ford paint is really freaking soft because I was able to get some big scratches out by hand but was left with what I assume is micro marring or very fine swirls that I tried to remedy with a plethora of products (ScratchX 2.0, UC, UP, SwirlX) by hand with store bought cotton applicators (they're rubbish) and a online bought foam pad (better for waxing) with no real improvements to the swirls. I believe it's not the products, but myself and my methods causing the problems. I'm here to hopefully learn how to remedy these swirls to the best of my ability and not ruin my paint any further (that my OCD can tolerate) given that this car is a DD.
Right now I have the following products in my arsenal to use: UC, UP, SwirlX, ScratchX 2.0, and my wax of choice is Collinite 476s. I can wash, dry, clay, and wax without incurring much of the swirl wrath, it's the paint correction that I need help with. I don't have a DA because they're rather pricey to me, but also a bit scary having no experience with them.
I'll provide pictures of the car once I get some good lighting to show the swirls. Any and all help and knowledge is greatly appreciated!
As a result, I've tried and spent many $$$ on many different ways to keep my car clean and swirl free over the last year through detailers. Be it Jetseal 109, and a ceramic coating that I ended up disliking because it's like covering your car in iPhones in that you have to use only specific products that you cannot buy in stores. I just find that even though they're really hydrophobic, they're very finicky, frustrating, and expensive. As a result, I'd like to save money by doing such things myself from now on.
Over the last few months, I've incurred many swirls and scratches from myself, the time my car spent in a dealership body shop, and my attempts at fixing said swirls by hand. I assume modern Ford paint is really freaking soft because I was able to get some big scratches out by hand but was left with what I assume is micro marring or very fine swirls that I tried to remedy with a plethora of products (ScratchX 2.0, UC, UP, SwirlX) by hand with store bought cotton applicators (they're rubbish) and a online bought foam pad (better for waxing) with no real improvements to the swirls. I believe it's not the products, but myself and my methods causing the problems. I'm here to hopefully learn how to remedy these swirls to the best of my ability and not ruin my paint any further (that my OCD can tolerate) given that this car is a DD.
Right now I have the following products in my arsenal to use: UC, UP, SwirlX, ScratchX 2.0, and my wax of choice is Collinite 476s. I can wash, dry, clay, and wax without incurring much of the swirl wrath, it's the paint correction that I need help with. I don't have a DA because they're rather pricey to me, but also a bit scary having no experience with them.
I'll provide pictures of the car once I get some good lighting to show the swirls. Any and all help and knowledge is greatly appreciated!
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