BogusMalone
08-15-2006, 07:19 PM
I bought my 16 year old son a 1995 honda civic a few months ago. We could tell it had been recently painted. My son was doing the usual go to the car wash and put on spray on wax when it was through washing.
A couple of months after he had the civic it got rained on (not the first time) and the water sat on it for a while, at least over night. We dried it off only to find some big time water spots left behind. We tried vinegar only on the spot to try and remove hard water spot. No help. We tried the abrasive properties of waxing a small spot. Wax wouldn't touch it.
Here is a picture of the car when it was new (to him).
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0323.jpg
Here is a picture of the top of the car with water spots. The water spots were all on all flat sufaces (hood, trunk and top).
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0407.jpg
It seemed that the spots were under the surface. I got some turtle wax rubbing compound and rubbed a small spot for a long time before I could get a spot to come out.
This was taking way to long so I tried 1500 grit sp on a small area and I could get a spot out but I was kind of scared of wet sanding the whole thing.
A friend gave me some 3M products he had left over from painting his truck recently and I used those. I first used Perfect-It II rubbing compound by hand. It took us like 6 hours of rubbing to get the spots out of the trunk lid. Then we used 3M Perfect-It foam polishing pad glaze to take the swirls out again by hand. Then we put on Meguiars colorx to try and protect from spots from coming again. We used these products on the trunk and hood. It took like 8 hours of rubbing by hand to rub out the hood.
It doesn't look to bad
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0401.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0405.jpg
We have not done the top yet.
I bought a PC7424 yesterday and placed an order for an edge 2000 pad kit today here at AG.
I think I can get the spots out with the compound and glaze that I still have some of. My main questions is how do I keep this from happening again.
Is Wolfgang paint sealant the way to go?
Sorry for the long post from a newbie. I have been lurking around here a few weeks and I enjoy the site.
Thanks for any advice.
A couple of months after he had the civic it got rained on (not the first time) and the water sat on it for a while, at least over night. We dried it off only to find some big time water spots left behind. We tried vinegar only on the spot to try and remove hard water spot. No help. We tried the abrasive properties of waxing a small spot. Wax wouldn't touch it.
Here is a picture of the car when it was new (to him).
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0323.jpg
Here is a picture of the top of the car with water spots. The water spots were all on all flat sufaces (hood, trunk and top).
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0407.jpg
It seemed that the spots were under the surface. I got some turtle wax rubbing compound and rubbed a small spot for a long time before I could get a spot to come out.
This was taking way to long so I tried 1500 grit sp on a small area and I could get a spot out but I was kind of scared of wet sanding the whole thing.
A friend gave me some 3M products he had left over from painting his truck recently and I used those. I first used Perfect-It II rubbing compound by hand. It took us like 6 hours of rubbing to get the spots out of the trunk lid. Then we used 3M Perfect-It foam polishing pad glaze to take the swirls out again by hand. Then we put on Meguiars colorx to try and protect from spots from coming again. We used these products on the trunk and hood. It took like 8 hours of rubbing by hand to rub out the hood.
It doesn't look to bad
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0401.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f41/BogusMalone/100_0405.jpg
We have not done the top yet.
I bought a PC7424 yesterday and placed an order for an edge 2000 pad kit today here at AG.
I think I can get the spots out with the compound and glaze that I still have some of. My main questions is how do I keep this from happening again.
Is Wolfgang paint sealant the way to go?
Sorry for the long post from a newbie. I have been lurking around here a few weeks and I enjoy the site.
Thanks for any advice.