How to Fix Oxidized Car Paint: Chalky, Hazy or Failing?
Chalky paint, hazy clear coat and failing clear coat look alike and need different fixes. A wipe test tells them apart before you spend any paint.
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Scratch Depth: The Fingernail Test and What It Tells You
One test, done in ten seconds, tells you whether a scratch is a polishing job or a body shop job. Here is what it is reading and where it is unreliable.
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Clear Coat Is Finite: Polishing Is a Resource You Spend
Nobody can tell you how many polishes your car has left, including us. What we can tell you is why the question has no general answer and what does answer it.
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What Paint Correction Removes, and What It Cannot
Correction does not take a scratch out. It takes the paint down to the bottom of the scratch. Once you understand that sentence, the whole quote makes sense.
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Polish, Compound and Glaze: Three Tubs, Three Jobs
Two of these remove clear coat and one of them hides what it cannot remove. Buying the wrong tub is how people spend paint they did not need to spend.
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How to Wash a Car Without Swirl Marks
Swirl marks come from grit dragged across paint, not the wash itself. The exact habits that keep grit off the mitt and off the clear coat.
