Buffer Trail Holograms

[WannabeG]

My car got royally botched by the 'detailer' when I picked it up a few months back. If you look at it in the sunlight, it is full of swirls and hologram buffer trails. You can actually see the way the buffer moved over the car. Looks like complete crap and it got me thinking, how the heck do those trails even happen? When I was first learning to detail, I had an old hood I practiced on, and even at full bore, moving quickly, I could never get anything like that to happen. How do the 'detailers' get that to happen? And should I expect them to come out fairly easily with M105 and an orange pad? I haven't hit the car yet because I'v been so busy doing other cars and just haven't gotten the time yet.

[Matt S.]

They usually use the wrong pad (wool) to use a light polish or cleaner wax type product...doing this with any polisher will likely haze paint, and when you throw a rotary into the hands of an experienced "detailer", there's your result.

[Flash Gordon]

My car got royally botched by the 'detailer' when I picked it up a few months back. If you look at it in the sunlight, it is full of swirls and hologram buffer trails. You can actually see the way the buffer moved over the car. Looks like complete crap and it got me thinking, how the heck do those trails even happen? When I was first learning to detail, I had an old hood I practiced on, and even at full bore, moving quickly, I could never get anything like that to happen. How do the 'detailers' get that to happen? And should I expect them to come out fairly easily with M105 and an orange pad? I haven't hit the car yet because I'v been so busy doing other cars and just haven't gotten the time yet.

Poor technique, dirty pads, rocks in bottle all of these will magnify swirls. If you use a rotary (wool) your going to get a certain amount of swirls, I don't care who you are

Yes, an orange pad is what I use to remove wool swirls

What machine are you using

[james_death]

As stated probably rotary and not refined properly as sounds it needed a second stage of refining..

[WannabeG]

This is what I am dealing with on my car. Looks like complete crap, right? and I am using a 7424 PC.

[maximus20895]

Yep, those look like holograms to me! Good job taking a picture of them, I know it's hard to do!

[Flash Gordon]

Those don't look near as bad as many I've seen

Work in small areas and apply pressure

[richy]

That will be easy to fix. You're lucky he didn't burn through the paint...that's irreparable. You need probably 2 more stages till it's perfect.

[james_death]

This is the danger of the weekend warrior, beware...

[rwright]

Good grief! Is that your truck?