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Originally Posted by OCDinPDX
Looks good...but forgive my ignorance what is checking? I've never heard of that defect before.
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I guess I should have taken a close-up picture. If you look at the paint up close, there are like very short lines in it. In this case they were mostly like little 3-point stars. Each line was about as long as the width of a penny.
They are, I believe, tiny cracks. It's a sign that the paint has failed. You can't fix it via detailing, as far as I know. Hopefully waxing it up will prevent or slow further damage, I'm pretty sure the owner doesn't want to have to paint the car.
I always assumed it was called checking because it can look like little check marks? But honestly I've no idea the origin of the term.