Help!! Audi A5 Sline Brilliant Black: Swirl Removal

[foamingcarwash]

Have issues removing the swirls. Looks fantastic under the LED lighting once I hit it with natural light wow! they are still there.. Please Help!!

Process:
Wash: Foam Can, Dawn Dish Soap
Clay/Lube: Clay Magic, ONR
Paint Gauge: ELCOMETER
Wet Sand: Meguiars Sanding Pad, Meguiars Unigrit 2500, 3000, 3M Trizact 5000
Polisher: FLEX VRG
Pad: LC Foamed Wool, LC Hydro-Tech: Cyan, Tangerine & White
Product: Wolfgang Uber Compound 3.0, Menzerna Super Intensive, Menzerna Super Finish

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[zmcgovern45]

Are you sure you are seeing swirls and not holograms?

Do you have a DA to use for your final finishing step?

Photos would be useful.

[foamingcarwash]

Are you sure you are seeing swirls and not holograms?

Do you have a DA to use for your final finishing step?

Photos would be useful.

Using FLEX Dual Action Orbital Polisher..

Under LED Lighting
Haven't worked on (Right)

Worked on (Left)


Under Sunlight Lighting
Haven't worked on

Worked on

[SR99]

I don't know but even your last (after) photo doesn't look right for a surface you've sanded up thru 5000 grit.

[Just02896]

Hard to see any swirls in the pics of the paint that was worked. All I see is haze.

[foamingcarwash]

I don't know but even your last (after) photo doesn't look right for a surface you've sanded up thru 5000 grit.

Yes I have done a very similar process on a SL500 and a 64 Impala and the results were amazing.. I have read on other forums that it is very hard to remove swirls and imperfections on the Brilliant Black Very hard thick Paint

Haven't worked on

Worked on

[Audios S6]

Did you take thickness readings before and after sanding (with your elcometer)? Do you know how much paint was removed?

You say everything was done with the flex vrg, and I see no DA pigtails, then my conclusion would be there are still some deeper scratches left after the wetsanding and you need to remove more clear if safe.

[Shtexas]

Those don't look like swirls left over, they appear to be tracers from the wetsanding by hand.

[WRAPT C5Z06]

Even if you stopped at 2500 grit, the purple wool + Uber compound should have been able to remove those sanding marks.

That looks like marring from your MF towel.


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[foamingcarwash]

Did you take thickness readings before and after sanding (with your elcometer)? Do you know how much paint was removed?

You say everything was done with the flex vrg, and I see no DA pigtails, then my conclusion would be there are still some deeper scratches left after the wetsanding and you need to remove more clear if safe.

It should be safe.. Hood Readings: Left 11.9 Center 11.9 Right 12.2

Those don't look like swirls left over, they appear to be tracers from the wetsanding by hand.

finished off sanding with 3" GG But for sure the swirls are still on the hood.