OK, here's a new one (at least for me, anyway- might be old news to you guys...)
The wife and thought it would be fun to make a set of magnetic racing "gumballs" for our Cabrio.. as you can see, they are fun indeed.
I put them on in the afternoon, then left them on overnight. The following day, I took the car to work to show a cooworker. Probably drove about 40 or 45 miles, all-told.
Then I went to pull the magnets off so I could wash the car, and noticed that when I lifted the BONNET gumball that it left a circle of what looked like moisture. I figured no prob- it must just be from the rain- maybe the fact that I put it on another sticker caused a tiny gap that water was forced into at speed.
Washed and detailed car and saw a problem- where the bonnet circle was, now the bonnet stripe and the hood now have a faint circular MARK that I cannot get off. Tried Turtle Wax Ice- no good. Tried a bit of Maguire's ColorX- it shined up the stripe very nice, but the mark's still there- it looks like a faint, slightly dull coffe cup circle, not darker, just a bit of difference in the surface sheen.
Anyone have any idea what happened here? My theory is that the magnet got so hot on the bonnet that the plasticized magnetic backing might have actually
melted a bit- the mark is on the paint AND the bonnet stripe. Or, it could have been from the moisture that somehow got trapped beneath, but I'm not sure how that would have done damage after only a day.
Any ideas how to buff the mark out of the OEM bonnet stipe? Just a single pass with ColorX pulled off a surprising ammount of black onto my microfiber rag, and I don't want to polish a hole in it.
Thanks!
