bert31- After your post (with which I agree wholeheartedly!) I guess it's time to prepost how Stoddard Imported Cars once had a *GREAT* cosmetic prep guy who did a very nice job on a few cars my family bought there; he could do *my* cars anytime and that's saying something! But then he finished grad school and went on to his real career and now, well...now I take 'em in-the-plastic.
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Originally Posted by toyotaguy
HOLOGRAMS.....not swirls. If there are swirl marks, the washing induced circular marring, then it will be easy to polish out. Holograms will need compounding to remove if deep enough...but you are going to have to remove the holograms, and the swirl marks if there are any will go with it!
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Interesting how experiences vary. I almost always find wash-induced marring to be much *harder* to correct than holograms.
IME the holograms (unless hideously bad and/or involving a lot of heat) are usually quite shallow, and thus easy to remove, whereas the wash induced marring is sometimes so deep that it's risky to correct it 100% for fear of overthinning the clear. All it takes is one bad speck of something really abrasive stuck in the wash/dry medium to cause a nail-catcher that's half-a-mil deep.
There are a whole lotta variables here...so it's not like anybody's right/wrong, just caught my attention because my experiences are usually so different.