Heres a couple of questions..

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8Banger

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I was thinking earlier and I got to wondering why a pad turns the color of the paint when you're removing oxidation. Like, if you're removing oxidation on a green car, your white pad becomes a green pad. I understand the concept for a SS paint, but why is this the case on a clear coat?



Also, I have some tail light tints I'm going to put on my Mustang, one of my lights has some clear coat over spray on it that I plan on polishing off with some light polish. My question is should I seal the lights with some OS before or wax them or just leave them bare before putting the tints on?







Thanks as always for any info. :cooleek:
 
If the color of the vehicle is transfering to your pad, it's not clear coated. Are you working on your 03 Mustang? Has it been repainted?
 
Oh, no I'm not removing any oxidation, I was just wondering...all the time in the C&B I see oxidation corrections on clear coats and the pads/MF towels are the same color as the car. It just gets me because they're correction the clear, not the paint.



On a side note, the left side of the car was painted earlier this month...someone backed into the door...:( :( :( :( :(
 
The only time that happens to me with a car that has clear coat is when the pad reaches underneath a curve or a lip. Sometimes the paint reaches further underneath than the clearcoat does. But if you are polishing in the middle of the panel and getting the paint color on the pad then I would have to agree with David. The car doesn't have clearcoat.
 
Also note that a few vehicles have "tinted clearcoats" and that in some other (very rare) cases some parts of a vehicle are ss and others are b/c from the factory.
 
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