Does this look like failure or just etching?

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So I ran a PC 7424XP on a number of panels on my car today after having a successful test run last week.

After I was finished, I noticed a copy of spots have something that looks similar to this:

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It looks like it may just be an etching, but I don't know what clear coat failure looks like. Could there have been a chip in the paint and my running over it with a cutting pad and cutting polish made it spider and look like this? Two more questions:

1. Does it look like it is just an etching?

2. Do you have any links to what clear coat failure looks like?

The results of my work today look absolutely fantastic. My good friend was over and he was amazed with the results as well. First time he noticed that there are flakes in my Nighthawk Black Pearl Acura paint.

After I do the last three panels I'll post some pictures.

Thanks!
 
Ok, well that looks pretty similar although the circular or oval pattern to mine had me thinking that maybe it was more like an etching.

If it is actually cc failure, then I'll get the panel resprayed, but more importantly, I want to learn from my mistake. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong to cause this?

I'm doing six passes, to work it in, of Menzerna SIP using a LC Orange or Yellow (depending on scratches) with my Porter Cable 7424XP on a 2x2 area at a time. I use setting three to spread the polish and then go up to five or six for correction. This is the first time this paint has ever seen any kind of polisher or tool other than hand applications.

I definitely appreciate any comments.
 
You did not cause this with your buffer, it just happens to some paints. Thats why the call it "failure" the clearcoat itself failed, you didn't do that with the buffer...Most likely there was sap or bird crap on that spot and it wasn't taken care of quick enough and started etching away at the paint. Thats usually how it happens, but you yourself did not do it with the buffer. To prevent that on a new finish, just keep protection on it and take care of anything that gets on the paint
 
That's good to hear! Thanks! I was afraid I was doing something wrong though it seemed like my method was correct and I did some test spots first. On to the last few panels! I've already had comments on how good the car looks now though it's more for me than for them.
 
That is called checking and as said above it starts as a bird bomb or some other acidic contaminate. The cracks go clean to the metal or whatever meterial the panel is made of. The only repair is to sand it down to the metal and fill it in and repaint.
 
Swell. I have a few of them, I guess from neglecting bird bombs or something. I try to get them off as quick as I can, but sometimes it is a day or two. Perhaps that's too long for the birds around here and the crap they must eat. I'm never under trees so I'm assuming birds.

I'll take it over to a body shop and have them quote it, but I remember looking into that once before on my hood and it starts adding up real fast. I'll have to pick the panels that matter most or just deal with them since it is a high mileage car and a daily interstate driver.

I'm mostly just glad to hear that it wasn't my doing because I don't remember them being there before but I have certainly never paid as much attention to my paint as I have during this process either.

Other than the chips that were there before and these checking marks, the paint looks gorgeous after correction. I'll post pics soon.
 
The difference between now and before you started the process you are currently working on is that now the cracks in the paint are full of polish and or wax residue making them visable.
 
Try cleaning that area with some Isopropyl alcohol and see if it looks a little better with the white polish removed.

That will not be a fix but it should not be so noticeable.
 
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