To my point in a previous post: "Although I hate the phrase "good enough" the next stop is "sh*t I went too far"."
Did you keep the polisher moving? It looks like heat transferred from the center of the pad on a static polisher right into the paint. There's really nothing you can do to FIX it. It's burned paint. Do an IPA wipe (I prefer Gyeon Prep) but whatever you have laying around and clean out any of the polish out of that spot and get something on it to protect it, because you're not going to be able to correct that area, really ever again. I don't want to rub it in, but there's a reason most people here have mentioned starting off easy and working your way up. Going from hand compound to a machine is a big step. Polishing by hand with a heavy cut compound vs machine polishing with a light cut = huge difference (with the machine doing alot more "work"), and it sounds like you jumped straight to machine polishing with a heavy cut compound. To be fair, if you keep the pad moving and the clear hasn't been corrected before these clears can typically stand up to a heavy cut with a heavy cut pad but then again every car's paint is different, especially when they are as old as they are now. How yours was treated in the last ten years vs mine or any others is the difference maker and is why pro detailers will tell you that correcting paint without a paint depth gauge is flying blind. I dont own one either, so I fly blind very carefully.
|