[olddog]

Thanks Mike the dent thing is very real.

I have a glass Cobra now that was originally a red color gel coat, that the previous owner put a very nice black paint job on. So I have to touch up any stone chips or the red shows.

I made the mistake one night of hosing the car off to get the bug guts off after hitting a cloud of bugs. I didn't dry the car thinking it was night time, so it wouldn't spot. Not thinking I drove it to work the next day. When I got home I realized the sun had baked the water spots into the paint. I used every cleaner known to man. Then the clay and polish. Then polish. Eventually I got it all off, but I'm not sure how thick the clear coat is after all that polishing. The point being, taking care of black paint is work.