Help with removing water spots... I think?

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4details2win

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This is my brothers 2002 Rav4. Aweful I know. His hood is the worst part of the car.



This is a before shot after I washed it and clayed it.





Ok, here was my process to remove these aweful spots. First I tried polishing. I tried OC and OHC with very little luck. I used the orange propel pad. Then I remembered I had some Mothers pre-wax cleaner. I used this with the grey propel pad over and over and over and over, possibly 5 - 10 times on one area gradually getting better till it stopped showing any more results so I did the entire hood this way. However the results didn't thrill me. I tried Meguiars Color-X also and that didn't work as well as the mothers pre-wax cleaner.



Here are some after shots polishied and used Duragloss TPP.



It's a little hard to tell but those spots you see there are riddled throughout the upper hood. The lower section of the hood looks nice.



What can I do to fix this? Products I can use or anything I might have passed up! Maybe wetsanding would help, I'm not sure.
 
I don't know the abrasiveness of the products you're using but maybe you're not using an abrasive enough product? I know I can pretty much remove any watermarks I get with SSR2.5 and a green or yellow Propel pad.
 
Honestly, with hard water spots, aggressive chemical paint cleaners like Meg 66 does a faster job than a compound in my experience.
 
I had a job last week and was able to get the water spots off using a Cyclo and P21S lotion.
 
Anyone else have some suggestions? Maybe Optimum Compound with yellow cutting pad? I just wanna see if there is anything I can do now with what I can get locally b/4 purchasing anything online.
 
Did you try vinegar? I'm pretty sure that's the first thing you're supposed to use with water spots. Cleans out the minerals or something to that extent.
 
I'm going to be doing a full detail on this car sometime this week. Vinegar doesn't touch it. I would contribute this type of damage to someone who never washed his car. I got some 3" propel pads from excel and I suppose I'll try using those with either OC or OHC and see if it does me any good.



Do these look like hard water spots? I'm pretty sure that's what it is. If it was oxidation wouldn't my pad gum up with the color of the car (black in this instance)?
 
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