hi, does anyone know what this is on my car? i put some touch up on my car as a temporary fix. After 24 hours i went over the area with a black hexlogic pad and sonax perfect finish. Inside the black line the paint looks a darker blue, and outside it looks duller.
has the paint been damaged or is the paint duller in areas due to not being polished?
Thanks
I'd guess the same as ultra from the photos. Looks almost burnt at the bottom. Also towards the top of your second photo it looks like a large patch of rust under the paint? If it is I wouldn't machine over that as it's likely to just lift the paint straight off
Yeah looks like the clear has gone.i had a similar issue what happens is the pad pulls the soft touch up paint out and onto the pad which then cuts through your clear coat like having grit on your pad. Respray for bonnet £200.
I wouldn't say you've gone through the clear coat especially when your using a black pad and PF, looks like you've not let the touch up paint cure long enough and removed some of it and it's caused a chemical reaction of some sort.
I think it's removed some which has acted like grit on the pad and been used to cut the clear, I did the same once. Touch up needs a good week to full cure. Get it covered with a stripe or sticker ifbrepaint ids notoption
going to go to a couple of bodyshops tomorrow see what they say. chongo do you know if theirs anything to try to make it better? or likely a respray? its on the rear bumper corner hufty so cant really cover it. thanks
It seems now that you have mentioned it, that it's located on the rear bumper edge and it looks like your bumper has had a respray at some point, because just to the left of the mark there are tiny dust marks under the clear. Now you could try and get a sponge foam hand pad and with some finishing polish and with only a tiny bit of polish begin to work lightly around the edge of the damage area. Make sure your hand pad has polish on it so your not touching the paint with no polish on it, and see if that makes a difference.
See plastic bumpers tend to heat up a lot faster than other parts of the cars body especially on the edge. If not pop down to your local body shop and they will probably tell you you need a full rear bumper respray or look up a local smart repair person
Thanks chongo, booked in for a bumper respray on Wednesday. For future reference do you think the damage is due to a repair in the past or to much heat? I used a da polisher on speed 1 to spread then speed 4 to work.
It's hard to say, but you only used a back pad which has little to no cut at all (depending on what paint it is) just be very careful when polishing plastic bumpers with any machine:thumb: speed and pressure are important :wave:
You can definitely see the repair job:doublesho, but he must of put some pressure and time polishing that spot to burn through the clear on a black pad.
He must have super soft paint around that area to do that.
Not 100% true if those defects are anything to go by the person that did that smart repair has clearly "ground the balls" out of that area to make it look better. But yeah the OP must have been there for a while LOL
As said if the touchup paint gets pulled into the pad it makes it a fair bit more abrasive.
The pad has pulled some of the not fully cured touch up paint, gets on pad and it's like polishing with grit on your pad, takes seconds to remove clear.
Polishing soft clear coat on a corner is always risky, a lesson learnt by the OP.
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