So a little back story on what happened with the car. I've had it for about two months and up until a week ago all I had done to the paint was some clay and Griot's paint sealant (btw not impressed). I bought it from Tempe Honda so I have no idea about the cars past but from what I've seen I'll assume that it lead most of its life in the Arizona sun without any protection from the sun. My hints to that would be that the car has quite a bit of hazing and the clear coat has worn through on the leading edge of the bumper. I also have no idea what the dealership did to it, nothing that was painfully obvious though (surprisingly enough).
So moving on a little. At the end of October I flew home to Seattle to see my family and while I was gone I left my car parked in my apartment complex. Well when I came back I discovered that I was parked next to a sprinkler that had sprayed down the front half of my car every morning for a week with the water then being baked into the paint by the sun every afternoon. So needless to say i had some horrible water-spots when i came back that were well etched into the paint.
so i tried all that i have in my very limited detail arsenal at this point which was some Griot's clay, Griot's machine polish number 3 (i was given a griots gift certficate at one point) and some Klasse AIO. Well the machine polish had a little affect but not enough for me to be willing to do the whole hood by hand. So I called up my Grandpa who lives in Phoenix to see if he could help. So i drove up there and we spent a little time with his rotary and some Meguiar's polishes that he had. So I think what we ended up using was some Diamond cut (?) with a soft buff pad followed by the Griot's on another Meguiar's soft buff pad. this managed to take most of the water spots off but before they were completely gone I started to notice little cracks in the surface of the paint that I thought I remember meaning that the clear coat was starting to fail. So I stopped there but I'm still not particularly happy with the results.
Is there something that I can do to save the paint or am I pretty much SOL short of a respray?
So moving on a little. At the end of October I flew home to Seattle to see my family and while I was gone I left my car parked in my apartment complex. Well when I came back I discovered that I was parked next to a sprinkler that had sprayed down the front half of my car every morning for a week with the water then being baked into the paint by the sun every afternoon. So needless to say i had some horrible water-spots when i came back that were well etched into the paint.
so i tried all that i have in my very limited detail arsenal at this point which was some Griot's clay, Griot's machine polish number 3 (i was given a griots gift certficate at one point) and some Klasse AIO. Well the machine polish had a little affect but not enough for me to be willing to do the whole hood by hand. So I called up my Grandpa who lives in Phoenix to see if he could help. So i drove up there and we spent a little time with his rotary and some Meguiar's polishes that he had. So I think what we ended up using was some Diamond cut (?) with a soft buff pad followed by the Griot's on another Meguiar's soft buff pad. this managed to take most of the water spots off but before they were completely gone I started to notice little cracks in the surface of the paint that I thought I remember meaning that the clear coat was starting to fail. So I stopped there but I'm still not particularly happy with the results.
Is there something that I can do to save the paint or am I pretty much SOL short of a respray?
