gmblack3a said:
So you have polished about 10-15 different vehicles and most detailers I know have polished 100s. It seems that you have had issues on at least 25% of cars you have put a machine to (please correct me if I am misreading.) My guess is most detailers who have polished over 100 cars have had issues on maybe 3%.....:nixweiss
Uhm, you and I have exchanged posts (in what always seemed like an atmosphere of agreement and mutual respect) so many times that I'm kinda

by the above. I listed a few specific examples culled from decades of machine polishing, examples I thought illustrated that it's possible to over-thin paint, even by PC.
Corrections:
I've polished a *LOT* more than "10-15 different vehicles" over the last few decades. Can't imagine where you got that idea. I've done *dozens* of just my own vehicles (and I don't mean only four or five dozen

). I've been doing this a long, long time, including as a jr.-level pro in the days of (only) single stage and on numerous cars when I owned a used-car dealership, not to mention dozens of cars for friends and family.
While I try to emphasize my *relative* inexperience compared to *some* of the pros here, it's not like I'm inexperienced in an absolute sense or in any way deficient in my work. People who know my work IRL, including concours judges, agree with my self-assessment.
No, I don't plan to do a whole lot of polishing in the future as my vehicles stay marring-free to the point that serious correction is a *VERY* infrequent occurence these days, and I seldom do vehicles for others any more; that's what I meant to convey but apparently I failed miserably in getting my point across.
I've had issues as in overthinned paint on the following vehicles out of [I have no idea how many]: 1) the never-detailed Volvo I inherited, 2) my BMW, 3) my minivan , 4) my friend's Audi. Only those were thinned enough that it mattered (the thinned paint on the Audi is the least of its worries as it has extensive cc failure, the RIDS on the minivan was down to metal anyhow so I didn't mind experimenting, and the single-stage Volvo was already messed up right down into the primer).
I've posted bout a few other detailing "oopses" that I've committed over the years, but I sure haven't messed up anything very often by *any* standards.
Again, I'm simply mystified by your post and I can only think that I've somehow given you an inaccurate impression that has in turn somehow counterbalanced any and all of the posts I've made on the threads that you and I have shared over the years.