Water Spots

[OjiChan]

I purchased and used (hand-rubbed) your Ultimate Compound, but the water spots remain. What else should I do? Please advise---thanks in advance!

[Murr1525]

Re: Water Spots

Any pics would be helpfull, and also have to be sure how you applied it. Give these a read over first:

What it Means to Remove a Scratch

How To Remove Swirls By Hand

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

How to correctly apply ScratchX to remove swirls and scratches

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Water Spots

Removing all of the water spots means removing enough paint off the car to level out the surface. If you haven't removed the water spots this means you haven't remove enough paint.

Modern clear coat paints tend to be harder than traditional single stage paints and this makes it hard or difficult for you and I to remove small particles of paint by hand in an effort to remove defects out of the paint.

Ultimate Compound to my knowledge is the most aggressive hand-applied compound on the market that won't at the same time scratch and scour the paint.

In most cases, when a person isn't getting the results they want it's either because the defects are too deep and to try to remove them completely would put them at risk of rubbing through the clear layer and exposing the color coat.

Or they're not using good technique.

In most cases it's technique related as most people don't know the proper way to work a compound or paint cleaner against the paint.

You're hand should have looked like this and you should have been working an area no larger than a foot squared and if you're new to rubbing out clear coats by hand then maybe even smaller than a foot squared.




Your experience is also one of the reasons so many people make the move from working by hand to working by machine and thus the reason tools like the G110 have become so popular with enthusiasts.

How big an area are you working at one time?

[OjiChan]

Re: Water Spots

Thanks! I'll work on the technique you prescribed---and I will narrow the rubbing area to the size indicated.