PC Swirls on new paint with RMG

puckyou

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Just had my hood repainted about two weeks ago, washed it the other day and coated it with RMG and red LC pad. At the end I noticed curly Q's over the paint where either I had some foreign object in the pad or what not. It looks as though the CC was soft and the object created these curly's



What do you suggest to remove them?
 
that is why you are supposed to let the body shop repaints cure for at least a month before doing any work to them....it was still in the cure stage and you may have induced swirling....let it cure fully, then try to polish them out with something like meg 83 on a polishing pad, or 80 on a polishing pad, or menzerna IP...other people rave about the optimum products here, I have not used them so I can comment
 
Even with really fresh paint that's unusual. Fresh paint is often polished (and sometimes even wetsanded/compounded) by the paintshop soon after it dries and long before the customer ever sees it.



I put glazes, usually Meg's #5 on two-week-old paint quite regularly. The glaze is nonabrasive so if you use it with a pad that's functionally nonabrasive (i.e., a finishing pad) you oughta be fine.



It *does* sound like a contaminated pad to me, or maybe the RMG had dried out on the pad and somehow caused it :nixweiss Note that I'm not first-hand-familiar with either that pad or RMG.



I'd probably let it harden some more before you try to correct it. If you try now, use something *VERY* mild on a finishing pad. Don't use something with as much bite as, say, Meg's #80.



I've used Griot's Machine Polish #3 on ultra-soft fresh paint with good results.



I'd just glaze it for now if it were mine. Try applying the glaze by hand, *very* gently. Keep an eye on the product, look for dried out clumps.



Every week or so the paint will get a little harder. It'll reach maximum hardness for practical purposes long before it completely finishes curing/outgassing. A month or six weeks from now it oughta be hard enough for pretty normal, if still kinda mild, correction.
 
Yeah, I am pissed.



Anyways, I will give it a couple of weeks then try and correct. They are not all over the hood just in specific spots.



I was going to try and correct with the SSR series, but am open to suggestions of product and pad combos.
 
puckyou said:
I was going to try and correct with the SSR series, but am open to suggestions of product and pad combos.



Not familiar with the SSR line, but whatever you use I'd choose the mildest product/pad combos and work up in aggressiveness as needed. There's lots of talk about "start mild" but in this case I'd take that to heart.



Interesting that it only happened in some spots, makes me think it's *not* a super-soft paint issue but rather a contamination problem. But hey, we're guessing here...
 
I was researched the SSR 2.5, OHC, and PowerGloss polishes. I am dead set on pad contamination also.



I may just buy all three.
 
Clear is made to be buffed out 24 hrs after application.

I dont think the red pad caused it.. i dont think it has that much bite, but maybe it was contaminated.



or maybe you need to try the black pad.
 
Gonna tackle it when I get back from vacation. By then my orders of the Optimum, SSR, and Menzerna full lines will be here.
 
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