The word holograms means a
specific scratch pattern inflicted
into paint using a rotary buffer
The discussion about holograms comes up
all the time in the car detailing world.
The word holograms means,
a specific scratch pattern inflicted
into paint using a rotary buffer
The pattern of swirls you see are actually
scratches and the pattern you see in the
paint mimic the direction a rotary buffer
was moved over the surface.
Sometimes people will refer to
micro-marring caused by the abrasive
technology and/or the pad used on an
orbital polisher as holograms. But these
scratches are not holograms but micro-
marring.
It is true that on darker colored paint you
can see a pattern in the paint that mimics
the way an orbital polisher was moved
over the surface, but even so, this pattern
and these scratches are not the same as
the scratches instilled by the single rota-
tional direction of a pad spinning against
the paint when using a rotary buffer.
One reason it's important to distinguish
between the two types of scratch patterns
is so that everyone in our industry is on
the same page when discussion paint defects.
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