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OK, please be gentle, first detailing related post in the forum 
A couple of years ago, I picked up a used 7th-gen Accord as a winter-beater. The car was in great shape (1 owner), and in what I thought was a lovely shade of Nighthawk Black Pearl (i.e. black w/ metallic blue flecks).
This is my first black car, and I had no idea of what that entails to someone who likes to keep their cars clean!
Anyhow, fast fwd to today...
I've never been completely happy with the way the car looked after washing/waxing. Sure, it looked great from a distance, but up close, besides a few stone chips here and there, the paint isn't as shiny as it could be, and I can readily see what I've read are called swirls and holograms leading to hazy reflections.
I've used Megs Endurance, Scratch-X and Plast-X for a few years, and figured that the first step to improving the finish should be to upgrade my arsenal of cleaning products.
Once purchased, I recently completed the whole Meg's consumer regime on the car; GC wash; clay; GC wash; UC by hand and NXT TW2.0 by hand.
After spending what seemed like ~3hrs on the car, it looked WAY better, but I'm still left with this on the trunk lid, along with some residual swirls etc.;
The defect was there when I purchased the car, and I'm wondering if it's the residue of a bird bomb or something
It doesn't seem to have changed much, after two hand applications of UC.
Anyhow, I'm not sure what to do next. Despite the Megs vids on Youtube, I've subsequently been told that UC is best applied by a DA. Would that solve it, or do I have to move up to something stronger, like M105 and M205 to get rid of this once and for all?
I certainly don't mind investing in a DA, since realistically, I'd be happy to use it to keep my other cars looking spiffy.
A couple of years ago, I picked up a used 7th-gen Accord as a winter-beater. The car was in great shape (1 owner), and in what I thought was a lovely shade of Nighthawk Black Pearl (i.e. black w/ metallic blue flecks).
This is my first black car, and I had no idea of what that entails to someone who likes to keep their cars clean!
Anyhow, fast fwd to today...
I've never been completely happy with the way the car looked after washing/waxing. Sure, it looked great from a distance, but up close, besides a few stone chips here and there, the paint isn't as shiny as it could be, and I can readily see what I've read are called swirls and holograms leading to hazy reflections.
I've used Megs Endurance, Scratch-X and Plast-X for a few years, and figured that the first step to improving the finish should be to upgrade my arsenal of cleaning products.
Once purchased, I recently completed the whole Meg's consumer regime on the car; GC wash; clay; GC wash; UC by hand and NXT TW2.0 by hand.
After spending what seemed like ~3hrs on the car, it looked WAY better, but I'm still left with this on the trunk lid, along with some residual swirls etc.;
The defect was there when I purchased the car, and I'm wondering if it's the residue of a bird bomb or something
It doesn't seem to have changed much, after two hand applications of UC.Anyhow, I'm not sure what to do next. Despite the Megs vids on Youtube, I've subsequently been told that UC is best applied by a DA. Would that solve it, or do I have to move up to something stronger, like M105 and M205 to get rid of this once and for all?
I certainly don't mind investing in a DA, since realistically, I'd be happy to use it to keep my other cars looking spiffy.
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