Any Tricks to Washing these Cars?

[Ron61]

Originally Posted by Ron61
When I had mine I never used water on it. Most of us around here use a product called wet paint which doesn't scratch if you have some fine dust on it and leaves it slick and it gets a deeper shine every time you use it. And big clumps of dirt or mud, I just wiped off with a damp cloth. The wet paint also works great on the chrome.
Ron

If you have dust/dirt and apply anything, you're going to marr to swirl the surface. Not necessarily scratch, but the other two for certain. When you touch the paint, if there's any contaminants beneath you're just rubbing it in.

I had my car for over 10 years and I used a California duster on it before using the wet paint. I have had many people look at it out in the sun, shade, and every place, including Curt Scott of Cobra Country and they could not find any swirl or scratch marks. They did find the paint chips from the racing where I just touched them up with a rattle can and a toothpick, or in the case of larger ones, a small touch up brush. But being white even they didn't show up very bad. Curt Scott even complimented me on the color combination and said he hadn't seen one yet that he couldn't find some swirl marks or scratches in until then.
Ron

[efnfast]

Originally Posted by Ron61

I had my car for over 10 years and I used a California duster on it before using the wet paint. I have had many people look at it out in the sun, shade, and every place, including Curt Scott of Cobra Country and they could not find any swirl or scratch marks. They did find the paint chips from the racing where I just touched them up with a rattle can and a toothpick, or in the case of larger ones, a small touch up brush. But being white even they didn't show up very bad. Curt Scott even complimented me on the color combination and said he hadn't seen one yet that he couldn't find some swirl marks or scratches in until then.
Ron

To be honest with you (not trying to bust your balls or anything ) most of the population, even car enthusiasts, don't know **** about detailing.

I've pointed out SEVERE hollogramming to people who just stare at me blankly and say 'yea, that's normal those markings there'. Since most people don't know how to remove hollogramming, swirls, micro-marring, etc..., over-time they start thinking everything but deep scratches is normal.

Plus your car is white; it's very difficult to find a lot of the defects I mentioned unless you're in the right angle and lighting......that's why I like silvers and yellows for my cars so much - very easy to hide and make look perfect to most people's eyes.

Of course the advantage there is that as long as you arn't looking at it 'properly' (which most people won't) you won't see them.....but I guarantee ya, come into my shop and I"ll use my sun gun and brinkman to make you cry for mercy when you see your paint's true condition =)

[Ron61]

Originally Posted by efnfast

To be honest with you (not trying to bust your balls or anything ) most of the population, even car enthusiasts, don't know **** about detailing.

I've pointed out SEVERE hollogramming to people who just stare at me blankly and say 'yea, that's normal those markings there'. Since most people don't know how to remove hollogramming, swirls, micro-marring, etc..., over-time they start thinking everything but deep scratches is normal.

Plus your car is white; it's very difficult to find a lot of the defects I mentioned unless you're in the right angle and lighting......that's why I like silvers and yellows for my cars so much - very easy to hide and make look perfect to most people's eyes.

Of course the advantage there is that as long as you arn't looking at it 'properly' (which most people won't) you won't see them.....but I guarantee ya, come into my shop and I"ll use my sun gun and brinkman to make you cry for mercy when you see your paint's true condition =)

I don't doubt that if you looked hard enough you would find some swirls in my White, but you are talking extremes with using the equipment you mentioned. I didn't use my car for shows but raced it and you don't have to be an expert to find all of the paint chips that i touched up. If I was so worried about a car that might have a swirl mark of scratch in it that I wouldn't drive it, I would get rid of the car. You are way out of my league when it comes to show car painting. I sold the car three years ago and it is still running and winning in Arkansas and they took it to their Country Car show and won Best Of show, which I was completely stunned by. But it was not and isnot by any means a show car.
Have a great holiday weekend.

Ron