Car Paintwork ruined after Coffee Spill

[anonymous-user]

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[OldGermanHeaps]

Mopping is machine polishing done by a gorilla. Fast cut plus or g3 on a ragged farecla white pad or wool mop followed by a filler heavy glaze. Itll look lovely til you wash the glaze off then it'll be a hologrammy mess. You want someone who will do a machine correction in stages finished off and refined until perfect without any fillers.

[GCH]

[KungFuPanda]

No need to show off with your Waitrose Latte!

[glenrobbo]

anonymous said:

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Sell the Picanto on a wet day and get yourself a TVR.

In future, avoid dangerous stuff like latte: if it can damage your car's body like that, just imagine what it can do inside your body!

Stick to real ale or tea.

HTH

[hondafanatic]

This is one of those threads that can go either way.

Option 1 - lots of sage advice and clear steps forward for the OP.

Option 2 - the use of Waitrose and Kia will be a green light for the hounds to rip the crap out of the OP.

Given the hour I'll got for option 1. If it was a Friday around three pm then definitely option 2.

[V8covin]

OldGermanHeaps said:

Mopping is machine polishing done by a gorilla. Fast cut plus or g3 on a ragged farecla white pad or wool mop followed by a filler heavy glaze. Itll look lovely til you wash the glaze off then it'll be a hologrammy mess. You want someone who will do a machine correction in stages finished off and refined until perfect without any fillers.

On that basis pretty much every bodyshop employs gorillas because that is the industry standard for machine polishing

[wolfracesonic]

Think yourself lucky OP, there's a chap on the 911 forum on here who spilt a latte over the PDK gear knob on his 991 Carrera. My God, the humanity; it's a Gen 2 model as well.

[Robbo 27]

V8covin said:

On that basis pretty much every bodyshop employs gorillas because that is the industry standard for machine polishing

The evidence.

[Petrol Only]

burn it with fire.

Also last time I checked KIA was no longer cheap!

[talksthetorque]

hondafanatic said:

This is one of those threads that can go either way.

Option 1 - lots of sage advice and clear steps forward for the OP.

Option 2 - the use of Waitrose and Kia will be a green light for the hounds to rip the crap out of the OP.

Given the hour I'll got for option 1. If it was a Friday around three pm then definitely option 2.

Yep, you're probably right

anonymous said:

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OP then reveals he has remortgaged his house to buy a Kia outright.

You still reckon hondafanatic?

Edited by talksthetorque on Tuesday 22 August 07:56

[OldGermanHeaps]

V8covin said:

On that basis pretty much every bodyshop employs gorillas because that is the industry standard for machine polishing

1 heavy pass with no refining then hide the holograms with filler heavy glaze? Industry standard for the ste ones yes. A bit more time spent breaking down the first pass then a second pass with a softer pad and finer polish working it down to a perfect finish is what the good ones do, at least the one I worked at did and the 2 others i use do if you ask and pay for a decent job. I suppose theres no point in soing a good job since most people rent transport appliances these days and bin them when the screenwash needs topped up incase they get their hands dirty or the neighbours catch on to the fact its over 3 years old.

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Tuesday 22 August 08:26

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Tuesday 22 August 08:29

[V8covin]

OldGermanHeaps said:

1 heavy pass with no refining then hide the holograms with filler heavy glaze? Industry standard for the ste ones yes. A bit more time spent breaking down the first pass then a second pass with a softer pad and finer polish working it down to a perfect finish is what the good ones do, at least the one I worked at did and the 2 others i use do if you ask and pay for a decent job. I suppose theres no point in soing a good job since most people rent transport appliances these days and bin them when the screenwash needs topped up incase they get their hands dirty or the neighbours catch on to the fact its over 3 years old.

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Tuesday 22 August 08:26

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Tuesday 22 August 08:29

You like to use the word 'heavy' dont you.
Compounding with a G3 type product with a foam head is the norm.There is no limit to the number of passes,you continue until you're happy with the finish.Then you move onto a softer pad with a finishing glaze.That is the norm for your average bodyshop.Notice, bodyshop not detailer.
I don't think the OP is expecting his car to win trophies with his paintwork

[Cabsi]

Might sound strange, but have you tried using (carefully) a heat gun on the affected area? Works for bird sh!t lacquer damage.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Round here if someone refers to the process by name as mopping your guaranteed a half arsed noticably st job, if they refer to it as compounding or correction its more likely they are going to try to do a decent job. Thats the point i'm getting at.
And there is a limit to how many passes you can do, strikethrough is a real thing.

[scratcher_]

Machine polishing probably isn't necessary.

A cleanser polish by hand will sort it out.
Something like Super Resin Polish that's easy to get hold of, worked into the paint fully and then buffed away will see it removed.

[Stefan Beale]

3 stage paint correction is needed, Koch Chemie' compounds are fantastic and can be done in 2 stages if trained with it. Where abouts are you based as I may be able to help?