hawkssoccer11

iTrader: (13)

hmmm never heard of using dawn and water to use the clay bar on a car lol. i always use detail spray whether it be adams or mothers lol. i use the ivory soap all the time for the applicator pads and the brushes lol.

brickloaf

Alright I picked up some meguiars ultimate compound and then a bottle of meguiars polish. There is a HUGE difference between the meguiars compound and the turtle wax **** I was using, the paint doesn't look like a perfect mirror (I don't expect it to), but it is looking a whole lot better. So far I have just went over a quarter panel and the trunk with the compound, but had to stop to wash off the foam pad and wash my microfiber towels. I have all day to work on this so I hope to have the entire car buffed with the compound by the end of the day. So the consensus is that after it is all buffed, I wash the car again, and then start on the polishing?

Thanks for all the quick responses, I was hoping to get at least one or two in the first day.

edit: I take it that I should be washing the pads with dish soap, and not just rinsing them off to get all the old compound out?

hawkssoccer11

iTrader: (13)

nice glad to hear that man. just be patient detailing a car is not an easy or fast task. patience is a virtue lol.

yes use dish soap to rinse your pads off with, i dont even use dish soap on the foam buffer pads i just use a brush to clean them off because they actually say to not get those pads wet.

Dipped_Cobalt

any new pics?

brickloaf

Ill post a few after I get it completely buffed and washed. My iPhone takes real shitty pictures so hopefully they will be able to show the difference. Should I expect any more of the little swirls to come out when I polish it?

hawkssoccer11

iTrader: (13)

it might hide or take some of them out but be careful when washing and drying the car as well becasuse a lot of the time the swirls/ spider web will come from how you dry the car or wash it too

brickloaf

I just wash it with a sponge and some car soap concentrate. I usually dry it by going petal to the metal on the highway.

hawkssoccer11

iTrader: (13)

i use the microfiber mits i love those things and i also use the wool looking mits as well that adams sells and just about everybody else lol

Dipped_Cobalt

om. I hope your joking if that's how you dry your car.....then don't bother/waste time detailing it.

brickloaf

I started pushing down a lot harder on the buffer and those swirls started coming out a lot more and a lot faster....now I feel obligated to go back and redo the quarter panel and trunk.

Dipped_Cobalt

yup. and when done. add to your sig

no_ss

iTrader: (2)

TRASHCAN LID BLEW OFF IN THE WIND AND SCUFFED MY HOOD UP DURING A STORM

brickloaf

Does it look better now?

no_ss

iTrader: (2)

I will have to try and buff this out now. It only looks like surface damage but gahh I'm so pissed.

no_ss

iTrader: (2)

There's more than this all up from the left front to the middle of my hood. do you think I can buff it out?

Dipped_Cobalt

dammit!
and yeah, should...try it.

Dipped_Cobalt

yup!

brickloaf

Before
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After compound, before washing then polishing.
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Ignore all the dark spots in the picture, thats just a large amount of crack cocaine that is lodged in my camera lens.

riceburner

iTrader: (66)

I tried and retried and retired a ~1 foot section of my hood. Hex logic cutting pad, chemical guys v36 polish. Light amount of polish but enough to keep the pad wet. Used like 15 pea size drops total. Washed area with dish soap first to remove protectants. Worked area crisscross with my 7424xp slowly until polish was gone/dry/flashing. The area looks exactly the same as the rest of the hood.

Tried one area on the hood of my toyota one time using the same method and got instant results! Area looks 80% less swirly than the rest of the hood.

So I'm blaming products in my case; simply not aggressive enough for the gm paint i suppose. Ordered some microfiber cutting pads and v34 from chemguys. Should arrive tomorrow and hopefully ill see some results on the cobalt finally.

brickloaf

I am using a cheap buffer, cheap foam pad, and the meguiars ultimate compound and I would say 80% less swirls as well, compared to the maybe 20-30% of swirls taken out by the Turtle Wax stuff. I'm by no means looking for a showroom shine, but for the $60 I've invested in all this **** I think I will be pretty pleased when its all said and done.

brickloaf

as far as polishing goes, is it applied the same way as the compound? Do I push as hard down as I did with the compound or does it go on a little lighter? I also have a separate polishing pad that I will be using.

ECaulk

iTrader: (6)

Same pressure

no_ss

iTrader: (2)

Got the scuffs out thankfully, pissed me off that my luck had that happen.

hawkssoccer11

iTrader: (13)

i wanna give that stuff a shot because i def dont have a good cutting compound thats for sure. i have some stuff made by 3m for like swirls but that stuffs not cheap by any means lol

ECaulk

iTrader: (6)

I need to pick up a cutting compound for the wife's Audi, it kinda looks like something ate part of the clear coat. I just need to get aggressive at removing it, or I'll wet sand the bastard to find out if it needs another coat of clear to fix it