2StepsAhead
05-06-2007, 10:08 PM
Brief prelude, I took a job with a guy with a repainted 7 series that a few of you might remember...car is a 2000 7 series, repainted by a guy who works in a body shop who did this on the side in a warehouse...
I got the car, took some pics and proceeded to use Optimum Compound with an orange cutting pad at speed 6 and then Optimum Polish on a white polishing pad at speed 6. I used fourstar upp to seal it, but the next morning I found pollen on the car so I gave it a quick once over with Duragloss AW. We inspected the car and drove off, handed the keys to his wife and the all was said and done...
Tonight I get a phone call saying I buffed off his paint...I go to take a look because there was no way that could`ve happened..
He tells me he bought top of the line german paint and clear coat and it was cleared twice...so I look at the car and in the dark there was obviously paint on it, now I take out the brinkmann and shine the line, all I good...I really get close to the paint and I could see some haze in the paint. I asked him what happened and he said he took it to the car wash and someone there pointed it out...so I said maybe they sprayed something on it. He says no, someone else noticed it a few days earlier...so I agree to take a better look at it in the sun..
The car was painted in a warehouse by a painter doing it as a side job, he was asked to fix the car cause it had burn marks and buffer trails all over the car...its been about a year since that, what I would like to know is if I could have caused this? He thinks its one of my polishes or waxes reacting to the paint...I took a pic that ill have up later but can anyone give me some insight on what could have happened? Maybe I didn`t buff enough of the paint out? Or maybe something chemical happened? Or maybe its just a bad paint job as evident by him explaining it to be painted in some warehouse not designed to do paint jobs in.
I got the car, took some pics and proceeded to use Optimum Compound with an orange cutting pad at speed 6 and then Optimum Polish on a white polishing pad at speed 6. I used fourstar upp to seal it, but the next morning I found pollen on the car so I gave it a quick once over with Duragloss AW. We inspected the car and drove off, handed the keys to his wife and the all was said and done...
Tonight I get a phone call saying I buffed off his paint...I go to take a look because there was no way that could`ve happened..
He tells me he bought top of the line german paint and clear coat and it was cleared twice...so I look at the car and in the dark there was obviously paint on it, now I take out the brinkmann and shine the line, all I good...I really get close to the paint and I could see some haze in the paint. I asked him what happened and he said he took it to the car wash and someone there pointed it out...so I said maybe they sprayed something on it. He says no, someone else noticed it a few days earlier...so I agree to take a better look at it in the sun..
The car was painted in a warehouse by a painter doing it as a side job, he was asked to fix the car cause it had burn marks and buffer trails all over the car...its been about a year since that, what I would like to know is if I could have caused this? He thinks its one of my polishes or waxes reacting to the paint...I took a pic that ill have up later but can anyone give me some insight on what could have happened? Maybe I didn`t buff enough of the paint out? Or maybe something chemical happened? Or maybe its just a bad paint job as evident by him explaining it to be painted in some warehouse not designed to do paint jobs in.