Need advice - Oxidized Paint Correction on 1968 Dodge Charger
Hey there!
First post. Excited to be aboard.
I did some paint correction/buffing/polishing using wool pads, a DA polisher, and Chemical Guys V36 Compound.
I'm wondering if I've gone too far or didn't go far enough with the buffing/paint correction. It looks shinier and better but still has white haze.
Someone on Reddit told me about Meguiar's No 7, and I'm looking forward to trying that, but wondering if I should try more buffing first. Apparently the wool pads were the wrong call for a DA polisher, so wondering if I should still use them on the left half (hasn't been buffed yet) or pivot mid-car to a different pad and compound. These videos will show you what I'm talking about.
Re: Need advice - Oxidized Paint Correction on 1968 Dodge Charger
Thank you, Mike! Much appreciated. I just read the first post in your thread and am diving into the thread on the green 69 t-bird.
I believe this is original single stage paint. I am seeing red paint on the pads after buffing.
My plan was to finish the left side in the way I did the right side - wool pads on a DA polisher with chemical guys v36, then do the meguiars 7 treatment by hand. Or would you recommend switching over to 3D ATT?
I’m in a bit of unique situation because I’ve only done one side so far - I want the whole car to look the same but don’t want to waste time or do double down on a bad approach.
Do you think the white visible in the first video is oxidation and can it be removed?
Re: Need advice - Oxidized Paint Correction on 1968 Dodge Charger
I let Mike give you his recommendation for your plan forward but I'll share two comments I have after watching your vids.
If what you did to the whole car is equivalent to what you did to the door in the video, then you did not go "too far". Quite the opposite, you haven't buffed enough yet, although there are some areas where you may have buffed enough and that leads to my second comment.
You need to be a little more deliberate and uniform with your polishing technique. Ideally you would polish each square inch of paint the same amount... That is not really possible but it should be your intent and you should do your best in that regard. In your video the polishing pattern was very haphazard. You went over some areas repeatedly and barely touched others. Concentrate on evening that out and you'll get much more consistent results.
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