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YOUR RESEARCHPlease! Need some guidance!
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age and condition of uour paint
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It is not hard to fix, the biggest issue is the age and condition of uour paint.
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Check amazon order history and i bought it in 2016
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I checked my Amazon order history and I bought it in 2016.
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I had mine professionally cleaned, paint corrected and ceramic coated in 2018.
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Seriously though, I'd ask your 'friend' what product(s) he used before going further..
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I use a bucket with basic wash, and I do it at a local spray car wash.
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You may want to use the exact compound which your friend used, on a small area 4" X 4" to soak it, rub it in gently with a microfiber cloth, and then wipe it immediately (within 20 seconds).
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Recently had a friend polish my car (he�s very amateur), but I thought I�d let him try it (deeply regret). After he did it, I left and went on my marry way. But afterwards I noticed I had all these tiny little white polish dots left hanging around. Took it to car wash and it hasn�t came off! They come off as I scrub the hell out of it with micro cloths and cleaner, but takes an awfully long time and still haven�t managed to get it all off. Does anyone know if there Is a faster way to get this stuff off?
yeah I told him that he didn�t do a good job and that washing it didn�t get it off. Big dumb argument happened after lol. I believe he used Meguiars Ultimate Compound.
First, is your paint standard black? I think you had some good advice, you could start with a clay bar, but honestly, looks like you might have some buffer trails. I am just an amatuer, so ymmv... if you want to geek out, watch some of AmmoNYC`s you tube videos. It is not hard to fix, the biggest issue is the age and condition of uour paint. On my 2000, the clear coat is done in a couple of Areas, so I have to be super careful with doing anything!
I would buy once cry once and go spend the money on a pro detail.. They are way less likely to cause more damage cleaning up the mess.
Note: I hate washing my car so I went detail/ceramic coat so 15 minutes or less to have it clean and shiny..
Agree with others that clay would be the best thing to start with. I've been using the Griot's "synthetic clay" for the past year or so -- which is more like a wash sponge. You wash the car first to get every bit of dirt off, then you essentially wash the car again with the Griot's sponge (using a fresh bucket of car soap). I like it much better than traditional clay and you can rinse out any buildup from whats pulled from the surface in the soap bucket. I don't know if it would be ideal here where there is so much buildup (traditional clay is probably slightly more aggressive), but mentioning it here because I think it's so much easier to use than traditional clay. I think AutoZone usually has the Griot's synthetic clay in stock if you want to try it.
https://www.griotsgarage.com/brillia...ynthetic-clay/
I was going to guess that was what he used before I saw that you had posted it. I think Meguiar's Ultimate Wax is great, but I've used their "Ultimate Polish" (the milder version of the Compound) before and it dries to unremovable state ridiculously quickly.
It says on the bottle to only do small sections at a time, but even with small sections, you have to be very fast or it will dry on and be very difficult to remove. I don't know why the Ultimate Polish/Compound gets such great reviews -- I honestly view it as a defective product because there is nowhere close to enough working time, even when used on small sections. Do the whole car (which you can on some other polishes) before removing, and you are screwed. Love the Ultimate Wax, hate the Ultimate Polish/Compound.
Having used that Meguiar's polish before, I'd be very surprised if there was any wax on it. If you don't use it in very small small sections, and
wipe
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it off immediately, it literally becomes almost impossible to remove. I'm not exaggerating to say it's a defective product -- I deem it unusable. He probably did large sections, or maybe the whole car at once, which would be extremely difficult to remove. I can't imagine he applied any wax over that surface because that would be pointless given how it looks. It's likely just residue from the compound and he gave up because that stuff is hard to remove.
The Meguiar's "Ultimate Compound" itself is more aggressive than the Meguiar's "Ultimate Polish", so even once the residue has been removed, it probably should be gone over with a finer polish (from a different brand) before waxing (or whatever top coat is chosen).
I feel awful for the OP. I also feel bad his friend, who presumably was trying to help, because this Meguiar's product is junk and unless you know it dries almost immediately to be unremovable, you're going to be screwed.. The Meguiar's "Ultimate Wax" (as opposed to Polish and Compound) is my favorite wax product by far -- so it's not like I have anything against Meguiar's, it's just that this individual Compound product (and the Polish product) is horrible.
Teach me your ways. It still takes me 45 minutes to an hour to wash my car. Granted, that includes filling the buckets, cleaning the wheels, drying the car, cleanup, etc. I haven't changed my process after the ceramic coat but it does make it easier to get the dirt off. Bug juice still takes a little scrubbing.
I agree with others. I was terribly disappointed with the Ultimate products. It dries way too fast and it is very difficult to remove even when doing a very small section at a time. The product blows.
I have two separate bottles of Ultimate Polish (one in Florida) and they are both like that, so it wasn't a sample issue. 4.5 star reviews on Amazon though with 20k reviews for the compound and 11k reviews for the Polish. Click the 1-star reviews on the compound, and he complaints are about it not removing any oxidation, click the 1-star on the polish, and the complaint is about it being difficult to remove (wonder if he used the polish and not the compound).
I never do Amazon reviews, but pissed off on behalf of the OP, I entered a blunt (but very honest) review for the polish last night. We'll see if they accept it or it gets flushed.
I just went and looked and I have a bottle of the Ultimate Compound. I checked my Amazon order history and I bought it in 2016. Apparently I wasn't too impressed because 7 years later it's still 90% full.
You may want to use the exact compound which your friend used, on a small area 4" X 4" to soak it, rub it in gently with a microfiber cloth, and then wipe it immediately (within 20 seconds). It should dissolve/soften the dried stuff and come off. I have used this technique with other products successfully, and some products have this procedure in their Directions part of the label.
I use a bucket with basic wash, and I do it at a local spray car wash. I get it done in 15 cause thats all I'm willing to spend on it on a biweekly basis. I dry it by driving it.. LOL
I daily mine so in Oregon it gets wet. About every day between Nov1 and April 1.
Ah. So you use the timer as motivation. I use a local spray wash too sometimes. Depends on what mood I'm in. It is quicker but it's a 20 minute drive each way. I also refuse to use their brush attachment because I don't know what's hiding in there.
I had mine professionally cleaned, paint corrected and ceramic coated in 2018.
I can still wash my car in well under 30 minutes.
I use Optimum No Rinse in my garage.
You can do a decent job on the body with
this stuff
this stuff
in 10 minutes or so using two buckets. Hit the roof, rinse/clean towel. Hit the hood/front, side panels, back/rear. Then wipe off what's left (which is very little) with clean dry towel.
Optimum no rinse is great stuff. I use it on my vintage car -- even though all the seals are in good shape, I don't want any water getting into the body panels and sitting, so to be safe I always use ONR instead of a regular wash. We have a daily driver Macan that is always parked outside, so I keep a spray bottle mixed with distilled water and ONR and use that to remove bird droppings in between washes (otherwise they bake in the sun and the acid can etch into the paint).
ONR does have its limits -- Optimum doesn't recommend it if the car is really dirty -- better to rinse off the car and do a normal wash in that case (undesolved dirt can act like tiny bits of sandpaper when you are rubbing it into paint with a wash mitt or drying towel). I didn't realize until watching the video below that there is a special sponge for ONR. To be honest, I'll probably stick with my microfiber wash mitt because I put a lot more ONR solution on the car than they do in the video with the sponge. I think more solution helps remove dirt more completely before the drying stage.
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Man, the conversations on this thread moved quickly from how to remove the hardened spots to how people wash their cars and dissertations on various products for washing and drying cars.
As
peterp
asks above, would be nice to know where the original poster is with regard to removing the hard-dried spots without damaging the car finish.
Oh yea the brush is for the underside of the car... LOL
One trick though if your cleaning something that is needing brushing is I use the spray nozzle to wash the brush.. (I wash my Jeep annually so for it this is fine.. LOL)
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