After years of hand polishing my cars I'm stepping into the world of machine polishing with a DA. I was working on my truck and noticed some flaws/damage to the paint on the hood and roof.
This is on my 1999 Nissan Frontier. This truck has had to spend a lot of its years outdoors. I've been pretty good about waxing it around twice per year, but I know that alone won't protect it from the elements.
I'm pretty much a newb in this area, so I'm not even sure what I'm seeing in the paint. This truck is pretty aged and I don't expect it to be perfect nor am I trying to make it perfect.
The damage to the paint looks almost like small cracks. The small white marks in the pics can be felt with your fingernail. They cover much of the hood and roof, but they're so small I never noticed them until this week.
As I said, they are widespread on the hood and roof, but after buffing they seem to be slightly more noticeable. I don't know if the buffing is making them worse, cleaning the paint around them and making them more noticeable, or perhaps cleaning wax filler out of them and making them more obvious.
What say you guys? Have any guesses what this is and what may have caused it? Is it just normal weathering from a decade spent in the elements?
I'm not going to insert the photos in this post because they're quite large. Follow these links to see them. Some of the flaws are highlighted to show you what I'm referring to.
This is on my 1999 Nissan Frontier. This truck has had to spend a lot of its years outdoors. I've been pretty good about waxing it around twice per year, but I know that alone won't protect it from the elements.
I'm pretty much a newb in this area, so I'm not even sure what I'm seeing in the paint. This truck is pretty aged and I don't expect it to be perfect nor am I trying to make it perfect.
The damage to the paint looks almost like small cracks. The small white marks in the pics can be felt with your fingernail. They cover much of the hood and roof, but they're so small I never noticed them until this week.
As I said, they are widespread on the hood and roof, but after buffing they seem to be slightly more noticeable. I don't know if the buffing is making them worse, cleaning the paint around them and making them more noticeable, or perhaps cleaning wax filler out of them and making them more obvious.
What say you guys? Have any guesses what this is and what may have caused it? Is it just normal weathering from a decade spent in the elements?
I'm not going to insert the photos in this post because they're quite large. Follow these links to see them. Some of the flaws are highlighted to show you what I'm referring to.
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