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Last week I spent several hours "removing" swirls from 1/2 of a black 2010 Camaro. One rear fender took over 3 hours to get worked out because it was repainted a few months ago. The paint job was better than average but the body shop did their thing with a rotary and there were BAD spider web swirls in direct sunlight.
I used a PC with a orange pad and Ultimate Compound first but the new paint seemed even harder than the OEM so I ended up going to a yellow LC pad to get the results I liked. The yellow pad eliminated the swirls and then I followed with a white LC pad and 205 polish to get the "tick" marks induced by the yellow pad.
Under a halogen lamp the finish appeared flawless. I finished with Ultimate Wax and was really happy with the results.
Now, I wash the car a week later and inspect the restored areas from a week ago. The car stills looks good at first but when I inspected it with the halogen...OMG, the same swirls are there as before, probably 60-70% reduced but still there. These are definitely not newly induced swirls, there are too many and they are dense. They looks just like the original rotary marks. So, the UC or the 205 filled them enough to make them look invisible even under the light when they really weren't entirely removed.
Even so, I am shocked that the fillers in the polish could wash out from under the sealant with just one wash. Seems odd. I guess the only thing I could do different is an alcohol wipedown after the UC in order to check my progress. Very frustrating to have to redo the areas that seemed flawless.
I used a PC with a orange pad and Ultimate Compound first but the new paint seemed even harder than the OEM so I ended up going to a yellow LC pad to get the results I liked. The yellow pad eliminated the swirls and then I followed with a white LC pad and 205 polish to get the "tick" marks induced by the yellow pad.
Under a halogen lamp the finish appeared flawless. I finished with Ultimate Wax and was really happy with the results.
Now, I wash the car a week later and inspect the restored areas from a week ago. The car stills looks good at first but when I inspected it with the halogen...OMG, the same swirls are there as before, probably 60-70% reduced but still there. These are definitely not newly induced swirls, there are too many and they are dense. They looks just like the original rotary marks. So, the UC or the 205 filled them enough to make them look invisible even under the light when they really weren't entirely removed.
Even so, I am shocked that the fillers in the polish could wash out from under the sealant with just one wash. Seems odd. I guess the only thing I could do different is an alcohol wipedown after the UC in order to check my progress. Very frustrating to have to redo the areas that seemed flawless.
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