I did claying, then ultimate compound and ultimate polish by hand. Then washed with quick detailer. Last I applied gold wax. Does it look like clear coat failure? . Car was not maintained from previous ower and area has lots of pollen, sap I should cover it.
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Can you help us understand the image a bit better.
Is this an image of the front top of the roof?
Does the car/van have a wide silver/gray stripe down the center?
If a stripe, is it painted or a decal?
Do not compound/polish a decal.
Is the area you are asking about where the bright sun is shining through the clouds?
Others will add their thoughts, yet this looks like heavy scratching of the clear coat, rather than CC failure.
These are deep and I don't know going after a whole top like this by hand is feasible. It may need a good DA to reduce them.
There is a cloudy line about 4 inches into the gray. I am wondering if this is residue that has not been wiped off where you stopped working?
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Re: Is this clear coat failure?
Pahrs
Check out the posts of the Thursday Night at the garage.
It shows a set of bird induced scratches on a silver blue Colorado truck hood that required special tools and techniques to remove.
It also shows less deep scratches on a white GTI that could be taken out with a 3 in 1 product (or with mild compound followed by polish).
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Re: Is this clear coat failure?
Originally posted by Old Bear View PostCan you help us understand the image a bit better.
Is this an image of the front top of the roof?
Does the car/van have a wide silver/gray stripe down the center?
If a stripe, is it painted or a decal?
Do not compound/polish a decal.
Is the area you are asking about where the bright sun is shining through the clouds?
Others will add their thoughts, yet this looks like heavy scratching of the clear coat, rather than CC failure.
These are deep and I don't know going after a whole top like this by hand is feasible. It may need a good DA to reduce them.
There is a cloudy line about 4 inches into the gray. I am wondering if this is residue that has not been wiped off where you stopped working?
I am going to buy a DA polisher and pads etc and try again. With hand it seems impossible to do this.
The part that I had polished by hand (spend 20 minutes) seems ok still. However the rest of the roof looks like this
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The blurry thing is visible at specific angles, in the last image it isn't visible. This blurry started when I applied UC in a hurry and couldn't wipe it. After some weeks tried to apply UC and UP but where I applied it the blur just reduced but now it is still visible.I hope that it isn't clear coat failure...
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