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Re: Remove Tree Sap Etching/ Water Marks From Black Auto Hood
Wow, great shots! Definitely a DA is needed, and I think those etchings, and everything else, will come out. Those circular lines are swirls or spiderwebs, and they're quite heavy. It should look glossy black with none of those artifacts, but it's not as daunting as it seems.
Guz may advise different, but I think the Porter Cable is the way to go. There are various box kits with different model numbers, but all I think are based on the venerable 7424XP. With a backing plate and pads of some sort with some liquid products, it's going to be a couple hundred bucks. Sounds like a lot, but it's not. Go to a professional detailer (who will likely use a PC DA) and see how a one-time full detail including fixing this blemish could be $300 or more. Or compare to a manned drive-thru car wash where they charge $25 a pop, yet that blemish will still be there for years to come because they cannot fix it.
I thought about this purchase myself for a long time before making the jump, so I know what you're thinking. From personal experience and my own resistance, I can say there's just no comparison, and you will never look back, but it's impossible to see that when you've never used such a machine before and can't see the results yet.
The pics I posted above were from my very first attempt with my Porter Cable. With compound, I fixed a bunch of blemishes around the car, some that I'd created working by hand, as shown (fixing the hologram as well as the underlying blemish or scratch), then I got the best polish and wax job I'd ever seen on any of my vehicles. The result might not look dramatic in the shots above due to the odd angle of the sunlight, but take a look at my gallery or "First Correction" links in my sig for more details. I've never looked back.
Don't think of it as the cost of fixing this one thing, but fixing hundreds of blemishes, scratches, swirls and spots over many years, with as many corrections and waxings as you want, getting a finely polished paint finish that looks professional every time, all for as many vehicles, boats or other things as you want to work on. The machine itself will last forever, the pads and liquids will last a couple of years at least, and you'll have a skilled hobby.
Wow, great shots! Definitely a DA is needed, and I think those etchings, and everything else, will come out. Those circular lines are swirls or spiderwebs, and they're quite heavy. It should look glossy black with none of those artifacts, but it's not as daunting as it seems.
Guz may advise different, but I think the Porter Cable is the way to go. There are various box kits with different model numbers, but all I think are based on the venerable 7424XP. With a backing plate and pads of some sort with some liquid products, it's going to be a couple hundred bucks. Sounds like a lot, but it's not. Go to a professional detailer (who will likely use a PC DA) and see how a one-time full detail including fixing this blemish could be $300 or more. Or compare to a manned drive-thru car wash where they charge $25 a pop, yet that blemish will still be there for years to come because they cannot fix it.
I thought about this purchase myself for a long time before making the jump, so I know what you're thinking. From personal experience and my own resistance, I can say there's just no comparison, and you will never look back, but it's impossible to see that when you've never used such a machine before and can't see the results yet.
The pics I posted above were from my very first attempt with my Porter Cable. With compound, I fixed a bunch of blemishes around the car, some that I'd created working by hand, as shown (fixing the hologram as well as the underlying blemish or scratch), then I got the best polish and wax job I'd ever seen on any of my vehicles. The result might not look dramatic in the shots above due to the odd angle of the sunlight, but take a look at my gallery or "First Correction" links in my sig for more details. I've never looked back.
Don't think of it as the cost of fixing this one thing, but fixing hundreds of blemishes, scratches, swirls and spots over many years, with as many corrections and waxings as you want, getting a finely polished paint finish that looks professional every time, all for as many vehicles, boats or other things as you want to work on. The machine itself will last forever, the pads and liquids will last a couple of years at least, and you'll have a skilled hobby.
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