jahman
07-17-2010, 07:10 PM
I am working on a red 2007 Mazdaspeed 3 that has been very well taken care of since I bought it new 3.5 years ago. However with any car that's daily driven, light swirls and paint imperfections are inevitable.
I just bought a PC 7424XP. Never used any kind of buffer in my life, watched the videos, read these forums and decided to try a small test spot on the front of my hood.
Since the imperfections were quite minor I decided to start off with a white css pad and PB SSR1. I followed the directions from the videos and what I read here the best I could and I dont feel as though I did anything wrong based on that. However what I observed in my paint afterward says otherwise.
The minor swirl marks and the water spots I had here and there are definitely gone, however, there are now really really super ultra fine swirls in its place. Technically, this makes sense since the white pad has a light cut and the SSR1 is a lightly abrasive polish. I thought some PB black hole, followed by some sealant should hide these marks. They did not.
So basically it looks sort of like a haze on the paint. Ive read that a haze could be caused by not using enough product on the pad, or working the polish too long that it basically dries up. I knew about this beforehand and I THINK I used enough polish...although I may be wrong. I've also never read or heard of anyone describing a haze as really really fine swirls, so I could have something different?
The paint that I didn't buff looks better than the paint that I buffed. These super fine swirls seem to take the depth out of the paint. So I'm kind of stuck on what to do here and didn't want to proceed and make things worse by trying to fix it, nor do I want my entire car looking like this. I tried taking pictures of these swirls but they just do not show up in photographs at all so its pointless.
If anyone can give me advice or tell me what I could possibly be doing wrong I'd appreciate it. Is it possible these super fine swirls are a necessary evil to get rid of bigger swirls? I highly doubt that since a huge portion of us are probably OCD when it comes to our paint jobs, but I just have to ask.
I just bought a PC 7424XP. Never used any kind of buffer in my life, watched the videos, read these forums and decided to try a small test spot on the front of my hood.
Since the imperfections were quite minor I decided to start off with a white css pad and PB SSR1. I followed the directions from the videos and what I read here the best I could and I dont feel as though I did anything wrong based on that. However what I observed in my paint afterward says otherwise.
The minor swirl marks and the water spots I had here and there are definitely gone, however, there are now really really super ultra fine swirls in its place. Technically, this makes sense since the white pad has a light cut and the SSR1 is a lightly abrasive polish. I thought some PB black hole, followed by some sealant should hide these marks. They did not.
So basically it looks sort of like a haze on the paint. Ive read that a haze could be caused by not using enough product on the pad, or working the polish too long that it basically dries up. I knew about this beforehand and I THINK I used enough polish...although I may be wrong. I've also never read or heard of anyone describing a haze as really really fine swirls, so I could have something different?
The paint that I didn't buff looks better than the paint that I buffed. These super fine swirls seem to take the depth out of the paint. So I'm kind of stuck on what to do here and didn't want to proceed and make things worse by trying to fix it, nor do I want my entire car looking like this. I tried taking pictures of these swirls but they just do not show up in photographs at all so its pointless.
If anyone can give me advice or tell me what I could possibly be doing wrong I'd appreciate it. Is it possible these super fine swirls are a necessary evil to get rid of bigger swirls? I highly doubt that since a huge portion of us are probably OCD when it comes to our paint jobs, but I just have to ask.