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From: Lance ( Auto Care Forums and Vehicle Research)
Date: 04 May 2003
Time: 15:08:51
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1
Acid Rain, Alkaline Rain and The Opportunities in On-site Detailing and Car Care are vast. Acid Rain can severely damage cars and SUVs. There are many environmental attacks on your car, some man made others not. Water spots from sprinklers are horrible in many areas the minerals hurt car clear coats. Acid rain is caused by Sulfur Dioxides or Nitrogen Oxides which combine with smog and water or precipitation to cause sulfuric and nitric acids. These on the surface of the car can be visible in white rings around dulled areas of the paint. Sometimes very small and I've seen as big as a quarter. Alkaline spots happen when minerals and chemiclas react while on the surface of your car. Ouch !!! When the ater dries you will see gloss of the clear coat dulles in spots and appear like deposits of salt or white film. What can you do about this. We recommend Clay Magic Fall-out Remover from AutoMagic. http://www.autowaxcompany.com/may2000.pdf --- We were able to meet with AutoMagic Team and they gave us samples of the latest clay magic, 15 sets at a retail cost of $75.00 each. Great company and in LV they did well at the APEX and SEMA shows this year. To buy it online go to: http://www.clay-magic.com/claymagic_products.asp ------ When these types of contaminents settle on the surface of a car it can be catastrophic to your paint job if not taken car of thus giving opportunities to our team. The pigment of the paint which is attacked change the color in the paint by way of chemical reaction, first eating through the clear coat and then into the other coats, of which there are many different types. As you may remember from school colors are made by mixing other colors. So you can get some wierd dymanics turing off white paint to pure white or grey or even black. Other eventualities include displaced clearocats causing bumps, etched cracks, yellowing, peeling, and even white blotching or milky look on the top surface. Many of the newest clear coats are much more resistent to these contaiminents, but if you look at a GM vehicle of 1980's to 1990's you are pretty much SOL almost immediately. Newest Clear Coat Technology makes our job really easy and Clay Magic literally is magic in that case; http://parthe.net/_cwg1202/00000066.htm ---- Other horrible things for cars include; Iron Oxides spots, which can also be fixed if they have not gone to far and gotten under the paint. White wall cleaner for 8 seconds and rinse and then clay magic and then polymer solvent wax and then Carnuba filler fixes that. Cement Spots are bad and hard to fix without scratching and etching the surface worse. Try to disolve the cement in liquid solvents while keeping water on it and use a kerosene solution or Dry Wash-N-Guard and then simultaniously a netted wax pad with clay magic and it's lubricant from Auto Magic. Oxidation the most common problem is the easiest see other topics on this subject here. Jet Fuel from Airport parking on approach ends of runways and diesel fuel or contaminents from Diesel generatoirs or ships are also typical problems and Clay Magic works well on them. As you may have seen new cars with white styrafoam type covering on feners being delivered to dealerships, this is to prevent salt spray which can cause damage and increase rust and from the ships, rail cars and trucks that deliver them from dripping rusty water on them causing marks. If this gets on the car it can even melt through the cosmolyene which cars use to be sprayed with before when in the delivery sequence of their journey to the dealership. Bee Pollen, Mayfly, Bird droppings, bat droppings, ash spots and tree sap are all very damaging but if you take them off quick they are easily taken care of wit the Auto Magic Clay Magic Product, which is an approved product with the Detail Guys- http://www.DetailGuys.com ---- Sunlight problems from ultra violet are getting worse now due to lessening of the Ionisphere from natural pollution, green house gases and HAARP, which allows more Beta and Gamma rays through the atmosphere. These can easily be protected from proper clearcoats, ceramic coatings, sun glasses, hats and a good wax job. Swirl Marks are caused by car washes and dumb detailers who have their heads up their butts. People like this: http://www.carwashguys.com/competition.shtml ---- How can you tell when you have accomplished the task in saving the paint and creating a mirror finish. Take your Rolex and tilt it sideways and then upside down and it should look like a movie clip and then a mirror as you spin your watch with no distortion. Another way is to take a flourescent light and see if it is crisp or if you have any wierd wave paterns coming off of the paint in the form of distortion or refraction of the light in anyother direction except directly inot you line of sight. Before going hog wild on the clear coat with Clay Magic or any other materials, Check the clear coat width. These units are from the old plating industry and used in industry to test thicknesses of substances. Used in satellites to find Bin Laden or Oil or depths of bunkers and small units by art consultants and engineers; http://www.qualitest-inc.com/positector6000.htm --- but for our industry we use little hand hold units to check the number of mils thick a clear coat has left on it after battling elements for sometime. You can find them on E-Bay cheap. But realize if you do not have one, you are not serious about detailing. I think it is funny when people tell me they are the best detailers in the world and do nto even have a thickness gauge on their trucks? A good clear coat is 5 mils or more, but most manufacturers use 2-4 mils and the substances are better than before. Color coats are usually 3-5 mils and primer coats are 1-3 mils. Aircraft use more one step paints to save weigth and many manufacturers use less paint to save cost and save steps by usines multi-step paints, some good and some suck. Minor oxidation can decay paint about 1-1.8 mils. Surface scratches and shopping carts can cut through clear coat and half way into color coats, thus a filler wax is needed after treatment is rendered and do not take a buffer with ashort wool pad to it either. I hope you learned something here today. Fo complete training of these issues call http://www.RightLook.com and then show us a certificate and we may allow you to buy a franchise from us; http://www.DetailGuys.com
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