xmt 360 works awesome on waterspots!

Jngrbrdman

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So I have a vehicle that is brought to me fairly regularly. It is the only Nissan I currently detail. lol Don't ask me why, but Nissan drivers just don't care about their cars around here. I had that 350Z I maintained weekly a few years ago and then an Altima with terrible clearcoat failure a couple years later, but I'll bet I can count on one hand how many Nissans I've detailed since 1997 when I started this business. Anyway, this is one that comes to me every other month or so. I had just done a full cut and polish on it maybe six weeks ago, so I wasn't really expecting it again until October for the Winter prep. Well, he decided to go back east for a week or so and wound up leaving the truck in the path of some pretty nasty sprinklers. ...for a week. ...in 100 degree weather. Yeah, so you can imagine the waterspots.

I figured since I had just given this thing a fresh coat of Wolfgang only a few weeks earlier that these spots wouldn't be much of an issue. However, as I feared, the paint had etched a little and it was going to take a little more than vinegar to clear these up.

I used the last of my vinegar on just the front fender and could tell that it would need at the very least a light cutting compound to clear this up. So I busted out the XMT2 and a blue Edge2000 pad on my Flex. This is the part where the handle fell off, by the way, but that is content for another thread.

The XMT2 actually didn't do a very good job. I scratched my head for a second wondering why this combination wasn't getting me results. My first thought was to get the XMT360 and do it that way, but I figured if XMT360 would cut it, then surely XMT2 would do the job. No such luck.

So I cleaned the pad and grabbed a bottle of XMT360. Holy crap, man... What an immediate impact. The waterspots melted off and the clearcoat damage was repaired. I have no idea why the XMT2 wouldn't do what XMT360 did, but that is my new first stop for light paint correction when it comes to waterspots or oxidation.

Sorry for not having pictures, but if you've seen one black SUV then you've seen them all. I'm pretty sure you all know what waterspots look like too, so no need to show that off. ;)

On a side note, I also did some testing with Diamondite products on the glass. I'm very impressed. The foamy glass clay stuff works incredibly well with the yellow sponge with the blue scratcher on it. I was blown away at how easy it was to clear the spots off with that. Overall, it was a very satisfying detail.

So the moral of the story is that you should have a bottle of Pinnacle XMT360 in your garage just in case you get hit with waterspots that won't come off. It is an awesome one step product that leaves a good shine and also does an outstanding job cleaning. Also, you should experiment with the Diamondite line. It is good stuff. :)
 
I will have to try this...I have a Murano and Nissans paint at least I feel is the greatest and is incredibly soft. I am always seein gwater spots if my car gets left out in the rain or if I forget to move it when the sprinklers come on.
 
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