Burning Paint with PC 7424

**calhoun1** · 07-04-2009, 12:48 PM

Is it possible to burn the paint with it?

I was just using it on my black car, and unfortunately it was in the sun.

I was using a blue pad with PO 85RD. I managed to get a quarter size wrinkle/hole in the paint. Is this possible with just the PC, or could a defect in the paint be an issue?

Also as you can see in the pictures this goes all the way down to the primer/plastic. So I am extremely upset at myself. Thinking about going to the dealer and saying I was just washing the car and this happened...

This is a brand new car, if that will help...

Pictures:

**maddenbowler** · 07-04-2009, 12:58 PM

pics?

**calhoun1** · 07-04-2009, 01:05 PM

Pictures are up now.

**ScottB** · 07-04-2009, 01:18 PM

I never seen damage like that from a random orbital buffer, the surrounding paint wrinkled like it was not even cured. Need a professional to chime in here ...

**calhoun1** · 07-04-2009, 01:23 PM

That is my thought. Any other burn I have seen on here has been a defined burn mark. I hope I can take it to the dealer and have it fixed as a paint defect...

**NismoMax80** · 07-04-2009, 01:30 PM

that is insane. i would be at the dealer asap. not sure what you want to say though. but i doubt it should happen unless you really bore down on it?

**Blackthorn One** · 07-04-2009, 01:46 PM

Well, if it was already hot from the sun, and you buffed it, that would make the paint even hotter than if you buffed it in the shade or indoors where it is relatively cool. I WOULD ask you if the paint got hot, but as it was in the sun, it probably already WAS. If you had buffed it in the shade where the paint was cool before you started and the paint never got hot and that happened, then there was definitely defective paintwork. If it was already hot, I'm just not sure how much heat paint that is probably water based can take, especially before it is completely cured.

**loudog2** · 07-04-2009, 02:03 PM

It doesn't look like that paint bonded. Looks like when you poke a hole in shrink rap, and it pulls back with crinkles.

**ASPHALT ROCKET** · 07-04-2009, 02:03 PM

It seems the side of the pad dug into the paint and then it just pushed into a clump. This is what will happen on a plastic piece when the edge of a pad grabs the paint. Also the paint being hot from the start just makes it that much easier to wrinkle the paint like in your picture.

**ryandamartini** · 07-04-2009, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by ASPHALT ROCKET

It seems the side of the pad dug into the paint and then it just pushed into a clump. This is what will happen on a plastic piece when the edge of a pad grabs the paint. Also the paint being hot from the start just makes it that much easier to wrinkle the paint like in your picture.

Sounds right, just goes to show no matter what kind of buffer you use, be careful!