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Re: Preventing Swirls and Scratches on Soft Black Paint
If you are going to physically touch the car and dry it, it won't hurt as it will add a bit of lubrication between the drying towel and the paint.
My wife's dark red/maroon metallic Toyota is crazy soft too. I don't use a drying aid, but am very careful with the drying. I flood rinse the whole thing and then just go back and dab up/gently dry what water is left behind.
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Re: Preventing Swirls and Scratches on Soft Black Paint
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nmatthew
...By the way, how do you wash your black Frontier?
Mostly rinseless washes, with an occasional foam gun/2BM wash. I quit trying to chase the swirls and just kept it clean (mostly). But I don't have to do that any more, as an impaired driver totaled it a few months ago.
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Re: Preventing Swirls and Scratches on Soft Black Paint
Soft black paint…. Either wrap the whole car in PPF or sell it. That’s what I would do.
I’ve owned 2 black cars before. Never again unless I have the cash to have it completely wrapped in PPF.
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Re: Preventing Swirls and Scratches on Soft Black Paint
A quality coating makes all the difference on black paint. The prosumer options arent bad eeither...certainly better than with no coating
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Re: Preventing Swirls and Scratches on Soft Black Paint
I used to have a black 2004 Infin. G35. The paint was so soft that you could take a cotton ball and slide it along the paint and it would scratch. When the wife exited from the drivers side she would grab hold of the B pillar to help her up. I would spend my time each week polishing out the scratches. I even went down to see Mike when he worked for Meguiars to help figure things out. Anyway the primer was just barely visible and luckily, Accumulator, came to my rescue and recommended that I use Optimum Opti-Coat. After that the car was like most black cars with hard paint and it looked gorgeous everytime I dusted it. A real life saver. I don't know about other coatings but OC was the best thing ever. I just wished I would have known that Optimum was going to up the price and who could use it - I would have bought a half doz. syringes and figured out how to store it for the future.
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