AScheib5088 said:
are you serious...dont go in circles...shoot i have been doing that forever...good thing the paint on my car is shot anyways...and if you dont have a good towel it will seriously scratch the paint? wow glad to know i learned that now cuz in the spring i wanna paint my car black. does black really swirl that much?
circles = bad.
same as bad towels. A teery cloth towel (like a beach towel or a bath towel) with the looms/loops are really bad. Car's paint it fragile in a sense that it eally doesn't take much to put in those fine scratches/swirls.
For example, here are pics of Joe's car (mr2urbo12) from when I detailed it last summer.
Here's what it looked like when I started. notice the small scratches in every which way
Now those scratches are lessened alot with the buffer
Then finally the paint is smooth, mostly swirl free, and clear.
Darker colored cars (black, brown, navy blue, forest green), when scratched have more of a contrast with the scratches/swirls. Those small scratches reflect the light and stand out against the dark colored car. A lighter car (white, silver, gold) while may be as swirled as the dark one, but the light reflected on the surface of the paint is similar in color to the paint itself, and much less noticable.
Here's a pic of a black blazer (tcengel's) notice the swirls and the contrast against the black
I looked, but I don't have a good swirled light car pic on my site to show you. . .
www.autopia.org <--- go there and read. It's a detailers site, much like this is a MR2 site.
Sorry Joe and Tim for bringing your cars up.
David