Corvette-pic heavy

[pampos]

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Just because a clear coat paint is hard doesn't mean you can't scratch it in fact you can easily scratch it. The hard part is then removing the scratch as you well know.

People just have to high of expectations for their car's paint. Soft or hard, it's still easy to put scratches into a clear coat finish.

The before pictures of the hard clear coat finish on this Corvette is a good example of this, it was horrendous.

Thanks Mike...I always wondering why hard clear coated cars scratched more than my Honda's soft clear coat....
As for the removal of the scratches on hard clear,i found it by the hard way

[Mike Phillips]

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BTW what is the difference between softness and scratch-sensitive.??

Just because a clear coat paint is hard doesn't mean you can't scratch it in fact you can easily scratch it. The hard part is then removing the scratch as you well know.

People just have to high of expectations for their car's paint. Soft or hard, it's still easy to put scratches into a clear coat finish.

The before pictures of the hard clear coat finish on this Corvette is a good example of this, it was horrendous.

[pampos]

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Years ago, back around 2002 and 2003, before this forum went online, most of the talk I would read about Corvette paint on the Corvette forums in their detailing section was that the clear coat paints on modern Corvettes was soft. Even the Z guys posted stuff like this. Not sure what they were talking about because back then and today we've personally always found the modern Corvettes to have very hard clear coats. What these guys did was confuse softness with scratch-sensitive. Anyway, after this forum went live a lot of that confusion was cleared up. (no pun intended).




We call this taking a paints finish to it's maximum potential. You can't always make the paint on each car you work on perfect and often times it due to factors out of your control such as RIDS, but you can usually take a finish to it's maximum potential and outside of a new paint job that's usually more than sufficient.

Nice work as usual Pampos!

Thanks Mike
This one was a 2002 car but i don't know if it was the OEM paint or not...
BTW what is the difference between softness and scratch-sensitive.?? Aren't those two ''going'' together??I mean if the paint/cc is soft that mean that it is more sensitive on scratches swirls etc and the opposite as i understand until now....

[Mike Phillips]

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It was a very hard CC and it was like i never touched it....

Years ago, back around 2002 and 2003, before this forum went online, most of the talk I would read about Corvette paint on the Corvette forums in their detailing section was that the clear coat paints on modern Corvettes was soft. Even the Z guys posted stuff like this. Not sure what they were talking about because back then and today we've personally always found the modern Corvettes to have very hard clear coats. What these guys did was confuse softness with scratch-sensitive. Anyway, after this forum went live a lot of that confusion was cleared up. (no pun intended).

Finally i found the way,not for a 100% correction, but for much more better results than before....

We call this taking a paints finish to it's maximum potential. You can't always make the paint on each car you work on perfect and often times it due to factors out of your control such as RIDS, but you can usually take a finish to it's maximum potential and outside of a new paint job that's usually more than sufficient.

Nice work as usual Pampos!

[Hemin8r]

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Thanks mate...I used #83 as a finishing polish

Awesome. Glad it all worked out

[pampos]

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Hey Pampos the car looks amazing! Glad to hear the customer was very happy with the results. I see that you went with 83.

Thanks mate...I used #83 as a finishing polish

[Hemin8r]

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Hey Pampos the car looks amazing! Glad to hear the customer was very happy with the results. I see that you went with 83.

[pampos]

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Thanks guys....I just hope to have the correct PTG to use it for wet sanding and to remove more scratches.....

[Beginner2002]

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Awesome! It's sooooooo wet....

[christian6984]

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nice work, it looks loads better

[pampos]

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Pampos,

I read elsewhere that you were having problems with the hard clear coat on this one. Looks like you found something that worked.

The paint looks fantastic. Great job!

Mike

Thanks mate...It was a very hard CC and it was like i never touched it....Finally i found the way,not for a 100% correction, but for much more better results than before....

[Mikejl]

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Pampos,

I read elsewhere that you were having problems with the hard clear coat on this one. Looks like you found something that worked.

The paint looks fantastic. Great job!

Mike

[pampos]

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Awesome pics. The paint just pops! Great results.

Thanks mate....

[pampos]

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Yeah the paint looks really wet. I dont know how you could have even noticed those scratches in the first place with all those other cars in the shop. How do you concentrate in that environment??

Thanks mate....I used to see those cars every day so it doesn't make any sense to me anymore.....

[CAShine]

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Awesome pics. The paint just pops! Great results.