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In my younger days, I used to detail cars at a a Nissan dealer. Im not a AMMO NYC level expert but I’ve successfully restored bad paint on plenty of older vehicles.
I noticed upon delivery that my Bronco had some water spots on the hood. The car was a dirt mountain detainee so I wasn’t too surprised. They ended up being pretty pesky. At first I thought some cleaner wax and polish would knock them out, and it helped but they still remained. Ended up having to compound the whole hood to knock them out. Wasn’t a big deal but took more time than I was expecting.
What I wasn’t expecting was to find what appears to be fish eye marks in the original factory paint. For those who don’t know fish eye marks are imperfections in the paint due to contaminants. Usually these imperfections are more found in repaints vs factory. These definitely won’t come out with buffing and wet sanding probably would only take down the clear coat and not help.
I think a few things like the flat nature of cactus gray and lack of a metallic pigment is emphasizing them a bit but they are def there. The car is about a month old and I haven’t had time to detail thoroughly yet so just noticing them. Parked in a garage so I doubt these marks are from anywhere but the factory. Or maybe it is dirt mtn related?
Wondering if anyone else has them on theirs. My lighting in the garage is all LED so it really pulls out the imperfections if you catch the right light. All of these marks you cannot distinguish in normal lighting. The paint to a normal person looks flawless, but myself having experience detailing can identify with the right lighting.
The marks are difficult to capture but I attached a picture look around the lighting at the tiny pinhole marks. In pictures you can only see them immediately around reflections, but in reality they are pretty much everywhere on the hood.
I noticed upon delivery that my Bronco had some water spots on the hood. The car was a dirt mountain detainee so I wasn’t too surprised. They ended up being pretty pesky. At first I thought some cleaner wax and polish would knock them out, and it helped but they still remained. Ended up having to compound the whole hood to knock them out. Wasn’t a big deal but took more time than I was expecting.
What I wasn’t expecting was to find what appears to be fish eye marks in the original factory paint. For those who don’t know fish eye marks are imperfections in the paint due to contaminants. Usually these imperfections are more found in repaints vs factory. These definitely won’t come out with buffing and wet sanding probably would only take down the clear coat and not help.
I think a few things like the flat nature of cactus gray and lack of a metallic pigment is emphasizing them a bit but they are def there. The car is about a month old and I haven’t had time to detail thoroughly yet so just noticing them. Parked in a garage so I doubt these marks are from anywhere but the factory. Or maybe it is dirt mtn related?
Wondering if anyone else has them on theirs. My lighting in the garage is all LED so it really pulls out the imperfections if you catch the right light. All of these marks you cannot distinguish in normal lighting. The paint to a normal person looks flawless, but myself having experience detailing can identify with the right lighting.
The marks are difficult to capture but I attached a picture look around the lighting at the tiny pinhole marks. In pictures you can only see them immediately around reflections, but in reality they are pretty much everywhere on the hood.
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