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Today i finally had a chance to begin the process of putting on the Liquid glass polymer and a coat of wax .
I washed the car as i usually do with overcast skies and pulled it into my sisters garage where i am house sitting this weekend.
Turned on her flourescent lights and began applying the LG, as i moved up the rear clam upper quadrant just below the fuel filler door on the flat surface i noticed it was dull compared to the surrounding area.
I looked at it from a angle and saw a 8" - 10 " long 3"- 4" tapering streak of dullness, with buffer tracks skipping along the edges as the buffer wheel hit the surface and jumped along the car! When my car was detailed at the dealership the guy used a buffer and didnt know what he was doing from what i can tell. He obviously cut through the clear coat down to the bare paint! Fortunately it doesnt look as if the paint was burned through anywhere along the streak.
I am now going to go over the car tomorrow with a hand held flourescent lamp and see if i have missed other spots like this along my car. I cannot believe anyone would use a buffer on such a small car to begin with and then to do this on the 1st waxing for a delivery.
Everyone check thier car out and if it came from Palm beach Motors then check it twice!
I fired off a email to Eliseseller, Ryan Moore, who was the salesman i delt with there, he is a great guy i am hoping and pretty sure i wont be having any trouble with getting this fixed right. but what a pain it is to just have to do it in the first place, and to think they charged me nearly $300.00 for thier PDI
Any suggestion/comments on what it will take to repair this? can it just be sprayed in this area or will a overspray be visible? Will the enitre rear clam need to be clearcoated again? Isn't the clear coat baked on at the factory and what effect will it have being done over in comparing to the other panels?
I don't know much about paint work and clear coats, I made a attempt to see if just adding the LG would solve it but it did nothing, still dull after a thin coating of LG applied.
I washed the car as i usually do with overcast skies and pulled it into my sisters garage where i am house sitting this weekend.
Turned on her flourescent lights and began applying the LG, as i moved up the rear clam upper quadrant just below the fuel filler door on the flat surface i noticed it was dull compared to the surrounding area.
I looked at it from a angle and saw a 8" - 10 " long 3"- 4" tapering streak of dullness, with buffer tracks skipping along the edges as the buffer wheel hit the surface and jumped along the car! When my car was detailed at the dealership the guy used a buffer and didnt know what he was doing from what i can tell. He obviously cut through the clear coat down to the bare paint! Fortunately it doesnt look as if the paint was burned through anywhere along the streak.
I am now going to go over the car tomorrow with a hand held flourescent lamp and see if i have missed other spots like this along my car. I cannot believe anyone would use a buffer on such a small car to begin with and then to do this on the 1st waxing for a delivery.
Everyone check thier car out and if it came from Palm beach Motors then check it twice!
I fired off a email to Eliseseller, Ryan Moore, who was the salesman i delt with there, he is a great guy i am hoping and pretty sure i wont be having any trouble with getting this fixed right. but what a pain it is to just have to do it in the first place, and to think they charged me nearly $300.00 for thier PDI
Any suggestion/comments on what it will take to repair this? can it just be sprayed in this area or will a overspray be visible? Will the enitre rear clam need to be clearcoated again? Isn't the clear coat baked on at the factory and what effect will it have being done over in comparing to the other panels?
I don't know much about paint work and clear coats, I made a attempt to see if just adding the LG would solve it but it did nothing, still dull after a thin coating of LG applied.