Well not really. Today I detailed my neighbor's old car, so I thought I would be a little more aggressive with the rotary. Some areas of the car the clear is flaking right off so he wasn't to worried about it. I used a 7.5" LC CE cutting pad with OHC @ 1700 rpms slow passes, no problem here. The paint got a little warm but not overly hot. So I thought I would try that on the edges and guess what, no problem there either. Now I went a little quicker on the edges because I would never go slow on edges any way. The one thing that did happen was the pin striping melted away when I turned the pad on edge over the pin striping and worked that area for about 5 seconds :bolt . I found that as long as you keep the buffer moving over pin striping you won't have a problem as I was using the cutting pad and OHC @ 1700 rpms on it with out incident. So I learned that you would really have to try to burn an edge to succeed. The paint on this car was almost 20 years old so the clear should be thinner and more susceptable to damage than newer paint.