bugs in paint

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white_335i

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I am new to this and worse I live in Florida (no pun intended).

We have this little bug that they call the LOVE BUG (its anything but love to a paint job. The problem is that a car that I bought to resell has alot of old pitted areas on the front of the hood where the bugs were not taken care of and this has cause some damage. I don't want to repaint as that is my profit margin. Thank You in advance for any help Ya'll can be. I did use the search engine but found nothing about really old marks, I have used swr to no avail. HELP:nixweiss :sosad
 
If the bugs are still in the spots on the car a clay bar will do the paint some good. I bet, some of thos bumps just need a good clay bar to pick them up. If they are rock chips then you can not really do anything for them.





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Maybe try searching for "pits" "pitted" or "pitting" with "paint". Here's one thread that came up with a title search:

http://www.autopia.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3880&highlight=pits



I think it depends on how deep the pitting is. An aggressive polishing session could level them down, but you can only go so far with that. If it's through the clear coat I'm not sure what you could do. Maybe attempt to fill them in with touchup paint and level them down? :nixweiss



My parent's van had this done to it. I just left it as it is because it was only on the bumper, and my attempts to hide them with a moderate polish only left white residue in them, making them more noticable. Besides, they were significantly deep enough that I was sure it was through the clear in some areas already, and I didn't want to accidentally force the issue of a repaint...



I should take closeup pics of it as a warning to people to get bugs and bugjuice off their car ASAP!
 
The one thing I really hate bout living in Florida all these years.



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Love bug "parts" will etch all the way through a clear coat if not cleaned off.



I would suspect that is going to be what you have if the pits are "old".



You might want to have a pro detailer look at it to see if a more abrasive method (rotary) and product may help.



G'luck!
 
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