anyone else worry about rubbing through paint?

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imported_steveo3002

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i own two 15 yr old vw's that i try my hardest to keep imacualte, knowing that the cars must have seen some rotary action in the past , im worried that i will rub through the clear one day :(



ive just ordered the pc :waxing: from autopia along with sonus sfx-2 , is that kind to paintwork??



anyone else with a older car worry about wearing the paint/clear off?? i dont want to kill the car with kindness, id sooner keep a few minor swirls than wear the clear off
 
If your worried about rubbing through the clear, you could always go the filler route. A good glaze like one of those made by clearkote, #7, etc etc topped by a heavy wax like #16, insulator wax, 476S, etc will hide a good deal of swirling.
 
Yeah, "horses for courses" as they say. You gotta tailor the products/process to the individual car. Much as I go on about keeping my S8 and MPV marring free and using a rotary freely on both our Audis, my older cars (all with original paint) can't take much more abrasive polishing. So on those I use very mild abrasives to take the sharp edge off the marring and then use the kind of fillers/wax approach that Neothin recommended.



But I dunno if I'd automatically assume that your VWs have been polished a lot in the past. It *is* better to err on the side of caution when you don't know a car's history though.



And note that it's not just a matter of rubbing *through* the clear- you can have terminal damage just from thinning it too much (you lose the UV protection which depends on the thickness of the clear).
 
okay guys, well im getting the sonus sfx 2 in with the deal...so should i use it??



my car only has very light spiderwebbing, i planned to use the pc with sfx 2, then aio/sg and top with insulator wax. id only planned on using the sfx once a year in spring
 
SFX-2 is a relatively mild polish and therefore it should be safe to use, assuming the paint is normal thickness. Then I would concentrate on washing safely ie minimising swirls by carefully washing the paint.
 
sure -- use the Sonus polish. Get that car looking as sharp as possible and then, like 90% of the people on this board, keep applying LSPs every other week.



Sheeet -- I admit it, even though it's raining here in LA, my car that's in the garage (M3) just received another coat of Souveran.



It's a disease -- seriously, a damn disease.
 
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