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Originally Posted by Hamza7
If you guys are the seeing is believing crowd, we can do a little experiment if I can get a 2 voluneers. One can have they car preped by the dealer the other by me. I will take photographic evidence of both cars on day 1 and a 2 month mark and we can all see what is what. Of course I will be doing the volunteers's car free of charge.
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Thanks for the explanation. Honestly wasn't trying to be a ****, but enough people come on to many a forum and start fishing for business for themselves without any real sort of cred or accurately explain what exactly they're selling.
I know what you mean about the lacklustre job these dealers do to prep a car. So I'm guessing you know about rail dust then? Well then this is a heads up to anyone with or getting a Whiteout FR-S. Read on.
We took delivery of our White 2010 Mazda5 in late Nov 2010. Being that time of year, I had to wait until the spring to do proper clean and wax/polish. No big deal. Washed, waxed and polished it up, looked fantastic. Then I started noticing later on through out the year after a wash and dry, what looked like tiny, tiny rust spots in various parts of the paint, mostly the lower sides and the rear hatch. Rubbing over it and with a fingernail it was smooth like it was in the clearcoat. ???? Ok, so it's not the actual body of the car itself, but on the clearcoat?? Rust??
Turns out pretty much EVERY car that is shipped by rail, end up with these rust specs from rail dust, just that on white cars, they are painfully obvious when you get up close. The tiny shards or iron that the train wheels kick up like a fine spray embed themselves into the clearcoat. They don't appear until much later as water starts to penetrate the clearcoat and the oxidization process begins, giving these tiny orange rust specs. Waxing/polishing won't get them out since you're just sealing them into the clearcoat, you need to get rid of them first! Oh and forget about the getting the dealer or the car company to do it for you, it just ain't gonna happen or more importantly, you don't want them doing it if they take as much care with the the pre-delivery as Hamza7 claims. YIKES!
Now for the record, I have nothing to do with these guys, and only heard of them in my quest to remove these spots without paint/clearcoat damage, but by god does this stuff work!! Iron X Iron Remover gets rid of them! I won't go into how as you can google away and see for yourself how it works. I'm sure there other places that carry it, but the only place I seem to know that carries it consistently is eshine.ca. I just order it from them.
Hope this helps, especially the people with white cars who are probably going to lose their mind when they see these rust specs appear! Relax, there is a solution!