This car had an inexpensive paint job and the paint was single stage and soft which is the norm for most single stage paint, not all but most.
Not by this guy.... I was scared to use the 501 on it with a rotary buffer because with metallic single stage paint you're buffing right on the flake itself and if you buff just a little too much you completely change the appearance of the paint.
Jeff and I did some buffing on the hood and trunk lid using the rotary buffer where most of the oxidation was but as soon as we felt we had the oxidation removed we turned the rotary buffers off and switched over to DA Polishers...
The finish still has places that look "mottled" but experience has taught me when working on a paint job of questionable quality, don't press your luck.
I took a few videos and the last one is a walk-around of the end results and if you look closely you can see the splotchy/mottled look to the metallic flake in the hood.
Still, the car came in looking horrible and left with a smooth, hard shine.
The car sits outside 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so I might have Coral bring it back, re-polish it lightly and then seal it with the GTechniq EXO and see how that works out since it's a single stage finish.
Also here windshield has the normal wiper scratches from wind blown sand from the ocean so I'm also going to have her bring the car back to polish out the scratches on the glass.
We used the Duragloss Nu-Glass to remove the water spots but to remove scratches "in" the glass we'll need a Cerium Oxide based glass polish.
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