I GOT A BLACK 98 GT. <FONT size=5>AND I CAN'T GET THE SWIRL MARKS OUT.</FONT></P>


<FONT size=5>HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT></P>

 

Suck! I will never own a black car again because of that. The only way to get it out is to bring it to a body shop that does high speed buffing. This takes a lot of skill and practice or you can burn threw the paint. </P>


Here are some tips. Use a wash mitt instead of a sponge.If it hits the ground you got to wash it out. Just cuse you don't see anything on the mitt doesn't mean it ain't there. use a grit buster in you wash bucket. wash your wash mitt after every wash. don't use the same wash mitt for the rims as you do for the body. don't use the same water for the car that you used for the rims. use a high quality wax. i recommend Zayno or Zymol. Not the cheap Zymol either. These waxes are super expensive 40 to 60 dollars a bottle but do an excellent job. You use a back and forth motion as opposed to circular motion like you do with most waxes..</P>

 

The only way to truly avoid swirl marks is to never use the same sponge twice, technically you should use a cotton rag.</P>


Everytime you would normally put your sponge in the bucket, you would instead grab a new rag (thus keeping the soapy water clean too).</P>


Those high price wax products, unfortunately, are no better than your $5 a tube Meguiars! The guys over at www.thirdgen.org for 3rd Generation Camaro's saw all the hype over Zaino and like products so they decided to do some investigating. They actually found that Meguiars beads and disperses water better than all Carnuba Waxes available &amp; they offer a 'polish' (step 2) that you can create layers with (whereas other waxes you cannot, they just remove itself when a fresh coat is applied).</P>


I use the Meguiars 3 step (Cleaner, Polish, Wax) and it's freaking awesome. Not to mention all 3 bottles total $15 bucks. </P>

 

yeah use a good wax. i bought a wax called forumla 115 or 113. its for black vehicles. or you can do the cheap way and get a black wax. it will hide your swirl marks. alot of sidestreet dealers use them when they sell their vehicles

 

Go to the 3M web site, they have a lot fo diffent things fo making cars look good. You can get a buffer and do it all yourself for less than what a shop would charge ya.

 

Read from this, you'll probably learn a LOT more than you'd ever think. Also, hiding swirl marks is useless. They come back as soon as the polish is gone, which is usually pretty fast with those products


http://www.saturnspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=263

 

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i wouldn't recommend trying to buff it out yourself unless you have some type of auto-body experience. as mentioned before, you can go straight through the clear on the car, or even the paint itself. instead of getting a different rag each time i go to dip it in the bucket, i just rinse if offwith the water hose then dip it in a second bucket of just water...then go to the soap bucket.</P>

 

I use machine glaze on a DA sander with a foam pad

 

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I don't bother avoiding swirl marks.</P>


I just wash it and use the Meguiars 3 step and it hides everything for a good month before I have to do it again. </P>

 

clay bar it....