View Full Version : what causes this swirl pattern
tssdetailing
04-10-2010, 06:23 PM
Looking at the photo-you`ll see swirls are like C-shaped. Is that from improper use of a rotary?
http://tssdetailing.com/images/thumbs/acuraHoodSwirls.jpg
JohnKleven
04-10-2010, 06:30 PM
It looks like someone clayed the car before washing it. Ouch, looks terrible.
tssdetailing
04-10-2010, 06:32 PM
hmmm, it does look like that.
Legacy
04-10-2010, 06:54 PM
Claying wouldn`t leave that kind of marring unless he dried clayed.
Todd@RUPES
04-11-2010, 06:46 AM
Claying wouldn`t leave that kind of marring unless he dried clayed.
I have seen aggressive clay (Meguiar`s Red or Clay Magic Red) leave that type of marring on softer paint. It looks really funky but cleans up fairly easily.
Accumulator
04-11-2010, 10:48 AM
Yeah, aggressive use of Sonus gray clay can do that too (gee, guess how I know). Or any type of "wiping" in that pattern. One could even cause it by washing/drying in a weird motion.
A rotary *could* leave that kind of marring if it were used in some odd way, but it`d have to be some mighty strange technique and I`d lean towards blaming it on claying or by-hand wiping of some sort.