[budman3]

Originally Posted by budman3

I remember 3-4 years ago someone from Meguiar's or who used Meg's products did a comparison on a junk hood and took readings before and after. But that was years ago and it seems PTGs are more popular now and I was just curious if hard clears = more clear removed or soft = more clear removed, things like that.

Originally Posted by togwt

How much paint are you removing. - Car Care Forums: Meguiar's Online

That's the thread I was talking about - - it's 3.5 years old and I don't think anyone has done anything similar since. It'd be interesting to see a repeat of that test done today with newer products and panels (maybe even one w/ hard paint, another with soft paint, using the same techniques for both). If anyone is bored, I'm just throwing out some ideas ...

[Nica]

Originally Posted by budman3

Thanks for the help again Nica. I never really understood the graphs because you take so many readings the high points would be impossible to distinguish without marking them right on the car after you took the reading. Unless the graphs are used in a different way -- do you take sinle line readings on the panel or do you use some type of grid system?

Well to be honest when I take readings, what I try to do is take at least 10 per panel. So for example on a door panel I try to take 10 readings, on the hood I take 10 as well.

But it all depends on the vehicle, if the vehicle is giving me relatively close readings panel after panel then I relax a little and instead of 10 readings I take about 7 readings per panel, I don't physically measure the distance between the readings either so I can't really tell you how far apart I take them I just keep taking readings.

As for the graph, well the graph helps me see all the high points...but yes there is no point on the graph showing you the high points if you can't distinguish them on the vehicle. So I sometimes mark where the high points appear, I've been meaning to purchase one of those marking pencils that body shops use but I keep forgetting every time I go and purchase supplies locally What I do now is either use a peace to mark the spot