after 100's of cars....

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DeanSweet

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During removing a very slight scratch in a 2010 Mitsubishi Eclipse I actually went thru the clear coat...

At 1st I was so anxious I felt nauseous, then I thought to myself,'That clear is incredibly thin?!'

So the money I could have spent buying a thickness gauge, I am having the quarter panel repainted.



Was a buddy's wife's car and I called him shortly after it happened. Took to another buddy's shop today and made an appt to get it fixed.



Lesson learned. Go on...



Anybody else done this?



-Dean
 
Yes, have done it doing scratch and chip repair wetsanding the touchup paint flush. I know that queezy feeling you get when something like that happens. But it happens, no matter what trade your in, if you do enough work something bad will eventually happen. If you never have something bad happen, then you are just very lucky. All you can do is just learn and move on. Make it right with the customer (or buddy) and that's really all you can do.
 
Yes. I've had it happen. I also had it happen even with a gauge. Unless you measure every square inch it isn't going to prevent every problem. Turned out I uncovered a previous detailers mistake on a ridge of the windshield frame. Thank goodness for an understanding owner and videos of my measurements. I was able to go back and look and see the evidence of it before hand.



"Any professional who hasn't struck through hasn't been trying hard enough!" -Todd Helme
 
I'm sure anyone who's been doing this for a number of years has done this (and to this day (and it was five decades ago) I stll recall that feeling of feeling nauseous and having to explain it to the owner



My first strickethrough is what made me buy a paint thickness guage, as opposed to borrowing one when needed (fact is its always needed) re-painting is not inexpensive and down grades the retail value of a vehicle





See http://www.autopia.org/forum/welcome-greeting-center/141967-hi-all.html for more information on paint thickness (should be re-named 'thiness')
 
Hi all,

Thanks for making me feel like it's not just me.

TOGWT, I find it odd that this poster (fishingforbytes) also named a Mitsubishi with thin paint. I will ask the shop it's getting fixed at to see if they can give me an avg mils thick this paint is as I am confident it is way below 80...

Oh well, Live life and learn. It wont be the last time. :)



-Dean
 
Been there, done that. Nothing worse than seeing the dull spot, then hitting it again and watching it get larger, that's usually when it sinks in.



I don't do scratch removal without a PTG anymore, too risky. Compounds, machines and pads have gotten pretty aggressive.
 
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