Are "love marks" inevitable??

[DETAILROOKIE]

I washed my Explorer today and I'm always extra careful when washing my paint, foam cannon, my mitts and drying towels after every wash, change them regularly, and always use drying aid plus the master blaster sidekick, but today the sun hit the paint and I saw "love marks" on the paint. I inspect my paint after every wash with the sun and scan grip lights. I'm guess it was when I did a second coat of CMX a day after the initial application. I used the sidekick to blow the dust off the paint, but i never noticed these Marks until after that application. Any tips on applying additional coats of any product the follow day? Should I simply hose down the car and dry it first?

I guess I'll be using 3D ONE sooner than I thought lol.

The picture is just to show the color I'm working with.

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[fly07sti]

I believe they are inevitable to some degree. If you’re going to add an additional layer of something after the vehicle has sat for any amount of time, I’d use a waterless wash after the Sidekick or even a rinseless wash. Explorer looks great BTW!

[Eldorado2k]

Best thing to do is to either blow the dust off then do a waterless wash with something like McKee’s N-914 or give it a quik rinse followed by the waterless with N-914. You want to use something like that because it leaves nothing behind and won’t interfere with what you’re about to lay down.

Personally I’d go with the 1st method.

[DETAILROOKIE]

Thank you for the tips! Definitely learned my lesson. I keep hearing so many good things a out N-914, I need to buy some after I finish my ONR.

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[PaulMys]

Fact of business.

Even the most careful of us will instill a swirl here or there.

If we didn't, there would no need for this forum. Lol

I stopped worrying about "every single little swirl" years ago. They can always be corrected.

Just be as careful as you can with the methods described above, and here on AGO in general.

This hobby should be fun, not another stress in your life.

[DETAILROOKIE]

Fact of business.

Even the most careful of us will instill a swirl here or there.

If we didn't, there would no need for this forum. Lol

I stopped worrying about "every single little swirl" years ago. They can always be corrected.

Just be as careful as you can with the methods described above, and here on AGO in general.

This hobby should be fun, not another stress in your life.

Thank you for that!

It is just my luck that this happens the day before I planned on showing my to a potential client to show him my work! Hahahaha. I'm sure he won't notice, but I'll take my wife's Jeep instead. The Jeep is love mark free since I just polished it a month ago.

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[Calendyr]

It depends on many factors, some you can control like the method you are using and the products and so on. Washing the car too often is the one thing you can avoid by doing a pressure washing and not following with a hand wash. Of course it is much easier to do this if the car is ceramic coated. If not, a pressure wash might not remove enough of the dirt without a proper wash afterwards.

Some of the aspects you cannot control is the paint hardness. If you have soft paint, no matter how you wash the car it is almost impossible not do create micro scratches. On harder paint it is possible to prevent pretty much all marring.

[Paul A.]

To answer your thread title question, in my opinion, yes, they are inevitable on a daily or frequently driven vehicle. Over the years I have significantly reduced the chance of creating even minor scratching however have not found any way to totally eliminate them 100%.

As Mike P says "anytime you touch a vehicle you risk marring".

[Mike Phillips]

but today the sun hit the paint and I saw "love marks" on the paint.

Got help out a brother man....


What do you mean by love marks?

[Btrahin]

I also have no idea what you're talking about...Surely there's proper terminology that could be used here? Love marks? That's a new one for me