The issue I have is extremely common with an old-school (non ceramic clear) 2-stage base clear. Shine even a very bright 100 watt incandescent bulb on the areas and it looks perfect. But lying down on your back with an LED headlamp to perform paint correction, and you can see small indentations in the clear coat from sand, road salt, gravel, etc. that appear white. Turn off the LED and hit it with natural or incandescent light and those tiny whitish pock marks literally disappear.
I have corrected everything as well as realistic and then had good clear film installed behind all 4 tires. I'm just hoping not to beat the crap out of the film right away, as film removal from a re-paint (as opposed to a modern baked on ceramic factory finish) can be tricky.
As far as road conditions, I had to take the car over to my tuner which is about 15 miles each way. It was a lovely dry 50* day - but it was after we had a few snows come and go so there was road salt and gravel at intersections and on/off ramps to the freeway. With those 335/30/18 rears, you could hear them just kicking the crap up against the rear quarters like crazy.
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