What would this be considered?

[cwpcasey]

Around my window washer jets there is a milky white " water spot". I am guessing its from the washer fluid I used and not sure if its water spots or something else. I also have tried to get rid of them by using M105 with orange followed by M205 with white with a Flex and nothing :buffing:.

Has it sat on there to long and I'm SOL or maybe some more passes will do the trick. Keep in mind before the bashing starts I am new at this. Thanks

[ASPHALT ROCKET]

Yes, that is from the washer fluid. Try working the area a few more times with 105 and an orange pad and use a little pressure. If not, you can remove the washer nozzle and try again so you can access the area better, last resort would be to lightly wet sand the area to remove the defect.

[Mike Phillips]

I understand how it's so easy to get caught up in trying do do everything by machine but for small isolated defects like this it's just as easy and fast and actually more effective to remove these types of defects by hand.

M105 works excellent by hand as does UC, which is a real benefit when it comes to working on modern clear coats because before these SMAT products were introduced there really wasn't anything that worked great by hand that didn't also leave scratches behind. ScratchX with DAT worked but it was so gentle it took multiple applications before you could see real progress.

Take a foam applicator pad and simply work the defects out with the M105 by hand and then make some "cover passes" using your Flex to remove any residual marring, (if any), from the hand application process.

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[Mike Phillips]

Whoops... forgot the reason why...

By working by hand, actually just 2-3 fingers, you can exert a lot of pressure to a smaller area or footprint and this will make it fast and easy to remove the defect.

With a machine, as great as they are, you will be applying pressure to the entire face of the buffing pad and this spreads the pressure out giving you less concentrated cleaning or abrading power to the defect you're trying to remove, it's a case of too big of a footprint unless you're working with a rotary with a small pad like you see here,


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