different types of defects

[stangone50]

any one have a link or pictures showing and describing all the different types of defects mentioned on this forum , such as swirls spider webs holograms ??????

[Mike Phillips]

Re: different types of defects

One of our most content rich forum groups does, it's called, Hot Topics


I scanned through it and picked out a few for you...

Tracers, RIDS & Pigtails
No pictures but descriptions, will try to get pictures in the future.



Paint Workability - The Hardness or Softness of your car's paint

This thread has pictures of small scratches caused by a thrown egg and RIDS, two of them running down the hood of a Chrysler 300




This is a Random Isolated Deeper Scratch = RIDS




Dirt Spots/Water Spots after Rain




The Clearcoat Failure Photo Archive



More examples of clear coat failure



Paint cracking




An Isolated Bird Dropping Etching
How To Remove a Bird Dropping Etching by Hand using M105 Ultra Cut Compound



Random, Isolated Deeper Scratch
Scratch Removed using Ultimate Compound








How To Remove Swirls By Hand

BEFORE - 700 Pixel-wide cropped out section from an un-touched, original photo of rotary buffer swirls in a clear coat finish.








How To Remove Water Spots off Automotive Paints

Here's both Type I and Type II

[stangone50]

Re: different types of defects

thanks man thats awesome .. what about a hologram whats that ?...
i been tryin to figure out whats going on with my hatch wing . the paint color is fading . the clearcoat is still there i think , no paint comes off on the pads but now when i wax it -it feels like in going against a sandpaper with the pad .

[xantonin]

Re: different types of defects

I think the green vehicle has holograms near the end of the photos, I may be wrong though.

[akimel]

Re: different types of defects

thanks man thats awesome .. what about a hologram whats that ?...

Haven't you ever seen Star Trek: Next Generation? I love spending hours and hours on the holodeck! In one of my favorite hologram programs, I get to detail a 1963 Aston Martin DB5, surrounded, of course, by beautiful women.

Oops, you must be talking about a different kind of hologram.

Cheers,
Al

[Mike Phillips]

Re: different types of defects

I think the green vehicle has holograms near the end of the photos, I may be wrong though.

You are correct.

These are Holograms, also called Buffers Swirls or Buffer Trails.





These are also holograms or buffer swirls,

Before


After



They are inflicted by the mis-use of a rotary buffer and the pattern you see is the direction the buffer was moved over the paint.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: different types of defects

i been tryin to figure out whats going on with my hatch wing . the paint color is fading . the clearcoat is still there i think , no paint comes off on the pads but now when i wax it -it feels like in going against a sandpaper with the pad .

Here's your other thread,

newb needs help
Here's a friendly tip



And here's the problem paint,




If there's clear paint over the red and you've polished the clear layer, then there's not much else you can do to revive the color coat under the clear coat except repaint.