What would cause this?

[Trip]

Hi everyone, recently acquired a black Challenger. Looks good under the sun minus all the swirls I’m going to work out. Under clean led light the attached photo showed. Any thoughts or suggestions.

[KyleBis2]

Kinda looks like scuffs. Maybe something slid against the car repeatedly.


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[Mike Phillips]

Looks like dull paint





I'd buff it. If you want to troubleshoot, put a tape-line through the middle of it and buff just one side.


Inspect the results and see what happens.

[SWETM]

Looks like someone has tried to correct scuff marks with something that was more aggressive in the first step than what they used to clean up that was not effective enough. Maybe someone have seen an Youtube video where they used a magic eraser and take off the scuff marks and tried them self with a to much of pressure and aggitations. And was not able to be polishing it up from that.

Could be smart to take a paint thickness reading on the paint with a PTG. So whatever they did not thinned the paint to much. If they have did something aggressive on just those areas.

Does it looks and feel like it's defects in the paint or can it be something on the paint?

[Trip]

Thanks for the replies, I was able to pull it out with Carpro essence extreme gloss. I didn’t think but I found a few other spots the same way. Almost done polishing out the finish with C Quartz 3.0

[Trip]

The reflection is only after the compound. This black paint was pretty rough.

[vobro]

All my Rams and Dodge vehicles had spots that came from the factory, I figured it was from an inspection line that spot buffed a paint imperfection. I guess they didn't feel like refining it there

[PaulMys]

All my Rams and Dodge vehicles had spots that came from the factory, I figured it was from an inspection line that spot buffed a paint imperfection. I guess they didn't feel like refining it there

I have heard the same thing from a lot of guys with Ram trucks. (Both in person, and on a Ram forum).

[kevin_1981]

A little late on the response... but it looks like someone tried getting something off of the paint with a magic eraser - ive known a couple of people that did that