polish type...

my brother is in paint and body and has been for 30+ years...he uses it and says its the best thing out there for hard water spots and etching...

Depending on the make up of the water in your area, you might need a light polish to remove them. I had a sprinkler I didn't even know was there, hidden in the bushes at a resort hotel years ago spray my car, then baked it dry in the sun...... etched the clear coat. If your clear coat is etched, you may need a light polish. Ideally, an orbital buffer like the Porter Cable and the right pad and polish would do it. I just did my semi annual polish and wax to remove the acid rain etchings off the hood. The Z is garaged, but during the day I am parked outside at work..... impossible to avoid it on a DD.

John

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you can also use this one, its basically for newer cars but has the same effect as 652...

http://duragloss.com.au/Products/ima...nd-cleaner.jpg

You probably have a jump on a lot of people then, with your brother in the paint and body business. I learned how to buff with a random orbital machine, but would never tackle a circular machine. I had acid rain etchings on the 350 that were so bad I could never totally get them out...... I think the car sat outside at the dealership for about 3 months before I bought it, and they had to get it from 400 miles away from another dealership, or I would probably not have taken it. I got the majority of them out, but you could still see some of it. The 370 I bought right after it was delivered, and took home and immmediately put on a coat of Meguires NXT, been much easier to maintain getting it right from the delivery.

took home and immmediately put on a coat of Meguires NXT,<<that's is what everyone should do, but they don't!

I am going to have to check this stuff out :tiphat:

i have been using the meguires regular red can wax...

i will be making the swithc to nxt the next waxing...

one thing i miss is the nxt car wash, i use to be able to get in auto parts stores and sometimes walmart...now the only place i have been able to get it is online...

It made most of the rain beed right up, so even though I am parked outside during the day, very little etching occurs. They make a good spray wax for inbetween touch ups after washing, that is designed to go over the NXT. After the hassels with the 350, I never want that to happen again :p

my brother used the 652 on the 2004 mustang i gave him...he said it had etching pretty bad...guess i never payed enough attention to it to see the etching, it is a white car so hard to see water spots...

but he used 652 on it and waxed it and said the paint looked brand new again

Do you have a Pep Boys there? They have it here.

LOL, you have been hanging out with Frost and me too long :p

That sounds like one of our jokes! :tup:

nah, closest one is 65 miles away...lol

Did he use the 652 by hand? Or a buffer?

i need to ask him, but if he did at his shop, im sure he used a buffer...

Any consensus over here? I discovered I have the same problem from my sprinklers - I have no option but to park there. So after I get rid of this "somehow", then I need to make sure there;s a regular coat of wax which will make iteasy to remove the spots in the future right?

Again, the thing is, the sprinklers are going to mess it up every night.