Mid-detail!!!! Please help

[doopy]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

did you use a claybar before Scratch-X ? I think it's dirt from the paint

[wkbrdr03]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

yea...i used a clay bar...i just found out that it is for sure single stage paint...do i do anything differently now?

[Lydia]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

No you do not need to do anything different. Keep up the great work.

[wkbrdr03]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

hey lydia...do you think that i could go deeper w/ scratchx on the section shown...i did 3 passes

[Lydia]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

I think you could go deeper. I've done six passes in one spot before. I'm not sure if you will be able to remove those scratches though...if you run the edge of your fingernail over them, does it catch? If it catches you probably won't be able to remove the scratch, but you can probably diminish the appearence of it.

[CharlesW]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

hey lydia...do you think that i could go deeper w/ scratchx on the section shown...i did 3 passes

Keep in mind that single stage paint is a finite quantity same as clearcoat.
When you polish to get rid of swirls/scratches, you don't remove the swirls/scratches, you level the paint around them by removing some of it.
It would take a lot of polishing, but it is possible to go through single stage paint and have primer showing. That is not a good thing.

[Murr1525]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

Sure looks good. Did you find the whole car is single stage, or just that section? Not that it matters at all, all your work is done the same way.

[wkbrdr03]

Re: Mid-detail!!!! Please help

Yea it is all single stage