What steps would you follow?

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Wax2max

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Sorry if this topic has been asked and answered, I couldn't figure out what to search on. Anyway...



Bought my 17 yr old daughter a "new" car, 1995 Lexus ES300. Paint color is two tone, with pearl white on top. Here's my problem. The driver's side rear door surface is like an old laquer paint job that never had a final rubout. You can feel a very slight difference in smoothness with finger-tips/nails. I put on a coat of wax for protection and the difference in sheen is visible at anything other than 90 degrees to the surface. All I know is no color came off on the pad as I put on the wax (actually LG, all I had on the shelf).



I'm hoping a repair was done and the final stage was not finished properly. If so I presume I could polish this out, and get back to normal, but I'm unsure of what steps and precautions I should use.
 
Sad to say more likely it could be more like an old paint job repair that now has a failing clear coat.



If it does indeed need to be polished, remember to start with the least aggressive polish first and then work your way up to ones more aggressive. With that said, a polish by machine is always more affective. I'm sure people here can give you more advice on polishing.



(BTW, you don't have apologize for asking a question even if it has already been answered, I am unsure)
 
Actually, I've seen this a few times on other cars and it's not failing clear-coat. You are probably correct in thinking that it's a lacquer repaint that wasn't compounded properly as two of my in-laws have the exact same problem with their cars (they only noticed it after I pointed it out to them!). I'm not absolutely sure what needs to be done because none of them were interested in getting it fixed. However, I'm 85% sure it needs to be hit with a compound then polish with a high speed buffer to bring out the shine properly.
 
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