Machine polish!

[anderson9]

Okay just as the sun came out I noticed lots of swirls in the paintwork this is just a little bit of them, can this be removed ?
What are my options ?

[xjay1337]

They're not swirls, look like marks from horrible machine polishing... why never let an amateur do it...hologrammed and crazed to hell.

Will need refining at the very least with something like S17 on a orange hex logic but looks pretty bad.

[anderson9]

how much will that cost roughly ?

[Saintsteve]

Someone's been busy with a Rotory...

I'm sure that will come out, as long as you have enough clearcoat left.

[anderson9]

They've done something to it, didn't even realise when I bought it, can this be helped ?

[Saintsteve]

If there's enough clearcoat to play with,  then a good detailer should have that sorted under an hour

[GTI-Ross]

where do you live mate?

[anderson9]

Newcastle mate

[xjay1337]

They've done something to it, didn't even realise when I bought it, can this be helped ?

Yes it can absolutely be repaired, even if there is barely any clear coat left (and you won't know without a PDG) then a generalised light refinement would remove a large majority of the marks anyway, even with minimal paint remaining.

[anderson9]

Thanks for the help lads, is there anybody local enough that I can get in touch with? I live in between Newcastle and Sunderland

[Hevoshullu]

If there's enough clearcoat to play with,  then a good detailer should have that sorted under an hour

Running out of clearcoat (with hard paints) is rarely any issue even when previously polished terribly badly like in this case. However, assuming that the same the whole car may be hologrammed more or less as badly, it will take way longer than 1 hour to correct the finish. Sometimes these holograms are really deep and stubborn in the clearcoat that it takes a rather aggressive cutting compound and a matching pad to get rid of them. A combo which then has to be refined with a finer set a polish and a pad. Final round (using a rotary) with S30+ and a blue or black hex-logic pad should give you a hologram free perfect finish.

I had a couple of similar hologram marks on my paint and they were actually more difficult to correct than the normal wash swirls.

[vRS Carl]

Yes it can absolutely be repaired, even if there is barely any clear coat left (and you won't know without a PDG) then a generalised light refinement would remove a large majority of the marks anyway, even with minimal paint remaining.

This ^^^

Unless someone attacks the car with a rotary at full speed with a wool pad and compound polish then you would do well to remove that much clearcoat that quickly.

That looks like it's just marring that's been left by someone with poor techniques with either a rotary or DA.

Don't get me wrong I could burn through someone's paint in 30secs flat if I wanted to with a machine polisher. But having detailed quite a few cars (I'm certainly no professional though) including VAG cars you generally don't take a lot of clearcoat away unless you're being an idiot.

As Xjay says a light refinement pass with a machine would get rid of most of that. VAG clearcoat is very tough.

[anderson9]

Does anybody no where I can get this done ? And what price range in looking at ?

[anderson9]

Anybody ?

[greygti]

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