Inspecting Paint

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Do you do a prep- sol or alcohol wipe down as you polish, why or why not?



How much time do you spend inspecting the paint after/ as you polish?



How do you inspect the paint?
 
D&D Auto Detail said:
Do you do a prep- sol or alcohol wipe down as you polish, why or why not?
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Not very often. I either use final polishes that don't conceal or I don't care and just put something like Collinite 476S over the fillers and don't worry about it. Can't say that I've ever had a problem with marring "coming back" except the time I used an AIO-type product after polishing with Meg's #80.



How much time do you spend inspecting the paint after/ as you polish?
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I've been known to spend several minutes looking for a single bit of marring that I *know* is there but that is so minor as to be basically invisible even under the most demanding lighting :o Note that that's an eternity to spend looking at a few square inches of paint.



I spend *far* more time inspecting than I do correcting. I do everything possible to make sure I truly *know* the condition of the paint and that can take ages on silver/metallic gray. I'm sure I spend at least 30 minutes doing the last, truly final isnpection, and that's after I'd bet my life I already know its condition. I simply won't stand for any after-the-detail surprises; if a flaw is there I want to know about it before I apply my LSP. Whether I'll *remove* that flaw is another matter.



How do you inspect the paint?
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Initial inspection: fluorescent and/or incandescent light, and/or halogens- different light lets me see different issues (marring/etching/texture/color match...etc. etc.). I use magnification as needed to fully assess the degree/nature of any issues that I'm not sure about. For the final inspection: incandescent light in an otherwise dark shop, varying the illumination and inspection distances and angles.
 
I use alcohol to wipedown during polishing. Nothing pre-correction.



I inspect as I work and post alcohol wipedowns using both halogen and incandescent lighting. Halogen shows the swirls, incandescent shows me the smearing and blotchyness of a lsp application if any. I don't move to the next panel until I am done inspecting and passing the current panel during each phase. It seems to go quicker this way.



I recently thought of using prep-sol, but still haven't gone to buy any.
 
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