10-01-2009, 07:34 PM
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Former Vendor
Member Since: Apr 2009
Location: Charlotte North Carolina 704-394-5150
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I personally watersand, buff, polish and hand glaze...16-24 hours AFTER the car has been painted/clearcoated. Then the car gets a final orbital poilsh right before I deliver it to the customer. If it is polished correctly...then swirls will not come back.
Everybody has their way of doing things and I am not saying MY way is the best. BUT....I DO NOT WAX MY PAINT JOBS....I APPLY A POLISH. I prefer the paint to breathe and cure and the polish will keep the oils and resins in the clearcoat during this process. I have seen HORROR stories of waxing to soon and sealing up the paint and not allowing it to breathe and it crazes or cracks. I do not advise and product with teflon, silicone in it because it makes it hard on "painters" like me...who have to get that crap off your paint during a re-paint process so WE know that your paint will stick.
If using a glaze and if it washes out of the paint and you see the swirls...it may require a foam pad buff job after it is clean and dry again. This may have been caused by the person buffing/polishing your Corvette not changing pads through the process...or not removing previous compounds that scratched the sureface when they went to the next stage in the polishing process. They should not have used one pad for all teh stages in the process. YOU should not have to worry about washing your car and getting swirls. This is assuming that the water supply is clean and filtered...and you do not grind dirt into it while washing...by using a contaminated towel, sponge or wash mit. It depends on the extent of these swirls and how picky you are about them....the more picky you are..which is fine....the more precautions you may have to take to keep you paint in the condition you want.
"DUB"
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