Unkown Issue

[Jeff Smith]

Folks, I did up the whole clay>clean> polish thing about a month ago now I guess. Before I had started, I noticed on the passsenger side of my hood I had a pattern of what appeared to be some sort of chemical splatter. As I got into polishing the paint, each one of these little droplet marks actually appeared to get a tad larger. Almost as if the polishing was exposing these more. It made me suspect this happened at the dealer or in travel and the dealer covered it up. I have hit the hood with #80, #9, #82 and DC#2, all with the DA. It actually appeared to get a little worse "after" having done the polishing. I realized as I was working that this was likely a problem above my skill level at the time and proceeding to Glaze and wax over the problem and hope to focus on it in the spring, which is the next time I plan to take it down and do up a full clay>clean>polish. By that time I hope to have gained a little more experience with the Rotary and can use that if suggested.

Anyway, I was wondering if any of you have un into a situation like this before and if so, could you offer some suggestions and commentary.

This stuff really does not stick out like a sore thumb. You have to catch it at the right light angle in order to see it. It is confined to about a 1'x1' area on the rear pf the passenger side of my hood.

This is about the only "serious" paint correction issue I think I have and I am hoping and looking forward to trying to tackle it.

[RamAirV1]

It's in an isolated spot. It almost looks like the paint is checking (cracking), similar to what I had on an '83 Olds Toronado, only this happened on the entire car.

Maybe something was spilled onto the paint? That's going to be very difficult to fix. Fortunately it is in just a small area. Maybe Mike will have some ideas for you.

RamAirV1

[Pete-FWA]

Such spots are tough to photograph, especially on a light colored car. Can you FEEL those spots with your fingers, or only see them?

They do look like paint checking/cracking in some ways, but they also look like some kind of overspray or droplets of something in other ways.

[kellyinkc]

Hey that looks what is on the hood of my Taruas. It seemed to get worse after I hit it with 83. I noticed it after I clayed and DC1 the hood afew months ago. This was before I really got "into" detailing.
I'm thinking the dealer covered it up and I removed it when then paint was cleaned properly

Took it to a body shop and they said it was solvent pop. I can not feel it, looks under CC. Good luck!!

Kelly

[Teak]

How long have you had the Ridgeline?
Were any of the panels refinished?

Checkout this for paint defects

Eric

[Jeff Smith]

Been a busy weekend. I'll try to comment on all the questions and comments thus far with one post.

The issue was slightly noticable before I clayed, cleaned, polished and LSPed. While going through the above steps I noticed each indiviudal spot seemed to get a tad larger with each step. Before starting they were almost like little pinprick looking dots. They were very similar to some of the little pinprick sized specs I see sometimes after using NXT wax. Only appears under cirtain lighting conditions.

The vehicle was bought new, off the lot, by myself in late June. Have had no wrecks and nothing has been touched up by the dealer. At least since I've owned it. The spots can not be felt by hand nor can there existance be picked up while running any kind of MF, towel applicator etc. over the finish. They are deep in the paint as my polishing would definately have had an impact on them if not.

I doubt very seriously I will have the dealer correct as my confidence in them to make everything match exacty just isn't there.

The area is hard to phototgraph. The pics don't show this very well but the number of spots are denser towrd the middle and the farther you come out from the middle the more space there are between the spots. Making me suspect splatter of some sort.

I am a routine type of driver meaning that I pretty much frequent the same places regularly. I don't park under anything that could have done this. Nor did I do it myself as as much as I play with detailing my truck I would definatly remeber spilling something on it.

I paln to clay, clean, polish again after the winter is over. A few weeks ago, #80 was the most aggressive product I ran over this and it did not do it. This winter I plan on getting some practice under my belt with the new Makita. Maybe I can take a stab it this area with that in the spring.

I almost suspect my truck was on the lower rack of a delivery truck enroute to the dealer and the vehicle above it had issues. Who knows.

Any recommendations on dealing with something like this? I almost suspect that going any more agressive than I have will probably prove useless since during the initial polishing, the specs actually grew in size. It's likely something I'll have to live with. But figured I would postjust in case it might jog someone's memory and maybe they had success dealing with something like this.