HELP!! I think I see hologramming in my paint!!

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Washed the car today, after a loooooong time, and needless to say on my driver side door and fender there is some freakin hologramming. I think, it's like a messed up reflection and looks like butt. Is that hologramming? I didn't see it after I polished it and the like, but now I do. What could have happened?



This was my process last time I did a full detail:

wash

clay

alcohol/water spray down

Sonus SFX-2 w/ LC orange pad

alcohol/water spray down

Sonus SFX-3 w/LC white pad

alcohol/water spray down

Meg's Gold Class w/LC grey pad



this was my first time, did I not work in the polish long enough, and it seems that over time there were some white spots from either dry wax or polish that just seemed to appear......could I just go over it with the SFX-3 w/white pad, then reapply my S100, a voila? Any help is much appreciated, oh and I tried the Meg's GC WW they got, and it is the best store bought MF I have used.



Bill
 
nice color car- :D sorry i can't help with the hologramming-unless maybe you didn't work the fine polish long enough:nixweiss
 
When i first started my detailing endeavors and was in the same situation as you. What I come to realize is that sometimes the "hologramming" some people see is really a very very thin film of residue. Whether it be the car wash soap, the wax, etc.



Try this first... Take a clean and completely dry MF towel and some QD. Apply a small amount of qd to a section of the panel. Then use one side of the MF the spread the QD around using light pressure. Once it seems spread around and almost invisible, then use the other side of the MF that is COMPLETELY free of any moisture at all then buff off the left over QD. Even after im doing the whole car like that i still take a fresh MF towel that is completely free of residue and moisture and do a final wipe down of the car. Takes awhile but ensures that you dont have the film of residue on the car.



This process took most of the "hologramming" that I was seeing on my car. Come to the conclusion that is was left over residue from the car wash soap after I had washed and dryed the car. This more frequent of being seen on dark colored cars.



Think of it this way, take a good amount of dawn soap in your hands and rub them together. Then run some water in the sink over your hands with no pressure from rubbing your hands together. See how long it takes for the soap to rinse COMPLETELY free from your hands. It takes awhile or doesnt rinse completely off unless you use pressure to rub it off and dry it off with a towel.



The other problem you may have had is that you didnt completely break down the polish from detail. Those abrasives may have not broken down properly and left marring in the paint, hence why you are seeing holograms.



Hope this helps somewhat....either that or I just completely confused anyone reading what I had just posted.
 
thats what I was thinking, but I don't see why it wasn't like that 2 days afterwards, because that is when I took pictures....thanks, however NBM is sweeeeet!
 
ok, 01bluecls, I think I will try that, but the SFX2 didn't get any swirls out from what I observed, or just a very few, so I want another chance to actually let the polish do it's work.......
 
What I had just posted about residue on the car stuff, its worse when there is high humidity (lots of moisture in the air) or when its really cold outside (below 50 deg F) Those two factors makes residue left behind even more prominent.
 
IMO, hologramming comes from improper rotary usage, not a PC. Without seeing the car, my guess my be "towel marks."
 
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