How to find Swirls on a Light-Coloured Cars?

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God77

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Hi Brothers,

I've 3 white and 1 silver cars. I know that there are a lot of swirls and scratches on my cars. For scratches, it's easy to find. But for swirls, it's almost impossible to find them in day light (I've tried torch light, direct sunlight, dim light but failed). The only way I can find them is when parking my car under road lamp (halogen) at night and WoW, I can't believe it, there are lots of lots of swirls. For some fine swirls, even at night, I can only find it by viewing quite laterally.

The problem is I only do detailing in day time and don't know where to correct. Please help me brothers.



Thanks,

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I also use a strong LED light(Gerber I think it is) to find swirls on light colors. But usually I don't worry much about swirls that I can't see in other lights. I don't want to go crazy, like I did when I had a black car :scared:
 
For me on my titanium silver car, hallogens don't help at all. Swirls only really present themselves to my eyes at dusk under dim/distant street lamps.



I have read that polarized sun glasses in natural sunlight help, but I have yet to try it myself.
 
Yes, Gopher, that's what I'm talking. In day time, after waxing my car, I was so proud how swirl-free my car was but when I park my car at night under street lamps. They are there and I think the only way to tackle them is to bring out a PC on to the road and doing detailing under street lamps.:think2:think2
 
I feel yer pain. :sadpace: The good thing about white is that it's very forgiving. The bad thing is that you literally have to work in the dark with an indirect light souce to see the imperfections when polishing. I've almost considered buffing at night. My problem is being able to tell when the polish has been worked enough. I look for light dusting from the Meg's #83 that I've using, but looking for white dust on a white car...you go blind after a while. :waxing: I still have not been able to get the results I want, simply because I stop too early. I wish they made the stuff in colors!! I've got a good set of halogens on a tripod, so I guess the most important part of the process is patience. :grinno:



PS: I had a similar experience - I spent an entire day polishing and waxing the old Benz, then when I drove to the local station for gas that night, all of the swirls that I swore I'd removed magically reappeared under their metal-halide lights in the canopy over the pumps. :scared: Very disillusioning!



Let me know if anyone comes out with a good polish that dusts-up BLUE when it's worked enough! :cooleek:
 
Find a way to duplicate the lighting that *does* show the marring.



For me, it's incandescent light in an otherwise dark shop. No more surprises in weird lighting conditions at night :D Just gotta get the illumination and viewing angles right for the area being inspected.



Yeah, it takes time...Spend a few hours inspecting your silver car lately?



I spend literally *more* time inspecting our silver vehicles than I do correcting them (and that's saying something, considering how hard the Audi clear is). Five minutes per panel, per inspection isn't unusual and that's repeated over and over and over...but I do finally get things as close to perfect as my don't-overthin-the-clear approach will allow. Consider how long five minutes *really* is when you're talking about looking at a single panel on a car..it's forever.
 
Inspecting! You mean "In day time" or "At night with incandescent light"? "In day time" I've tried at many angles, paying attention but failed. At night, Yes, I can see them. It's something like, I've to take photos of the areas of swirls and do correction in the morning according to photo and guess.!!! :o:o Hee Hee. My family will think I gone crazy! Yap, I think they are start thinking now as I'm finding the swirls which other people can't find. :lol:lol
 
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