Removing swirl marks?

[waterwonder]

hi,
whats the cheapest/easiest way of removing swirl marks?

Despite taking the usual basic precautions regarding clean water, sponge and chammios never on the floor etc i seem to have a aquired a load on the last wash. Made a serious error in finnishing it off when it was quite dark so got a nice spread all over which weren't noticeable till the following morning. Grrrr lesson learned.

Its a flat red car if it makes any difference. Also anyones else got any tips or tricks for preventing them going forward as i'm obviously no detailing expert.

Edited by waterwonder on Monday 15th March 13:02

[PJ S]

Only one way to remove them - machine or hand polishing.
If you want mask them, then there's a variety of products that'll do that - Autoglym SRP, with EGP over that, or the infamous Bilt Hamber Auto-balm.

[waterwonder]

thanks being a novice hand polish is probably the best option. What do i need for this and rough cost?

Never had a problem in the past but must of just been lucky with colour choice of previous cars and my rather basic washing method. Will put a bit of effort/research into mits/double buckets etc going forward.

[PJ S]

What's the car you have?
Are you wanting to polish or just mask?
Depending on paint type (hard or soft) you may find hand polishing to be a real chore, and therefore better off masking until you can get a pro detailer to assess it and quote for doing the job.
Thereafter you only need maintain, which they'd (and we can) explain how you'd do that.

[waterwonder]

its a mini cooper. Flat red, chilli i think. Ideally i'd obviously like to get rid but not at the expense of a detailer at the moment. But failing that anything that does a good job of masking it is better than nothing.

[Envy Valeting]

Many many products out there.
Meguiars is possibly the easiest for you to get your hands on such as Ultimate Compound if your car really is in a state, or Swirl X if its just light swirls. Both designed to be used by hand or machine.

[waterwonder]

Cheers guys. I shall get investigating.

[pmanson]

Envy Valeting said:

Many many products out there.
Meguiars is possibly the easiest for you to get your hands on such as Ultimate Compound if your car really is in a state, or Swirl X if its just light swirls. Both designed to be used by hand or machine.

I had good results (by hand) with some of the Sonus products using their applicator.

Was hard work but worth it.

[Pvapour]

looking to have a go at removing my swirl marks with a machine polish, what sort of RPM are the polishers spinning at? does it vary depending on product being used?

cheers

[pmanson]

Pvapour said:

looking to have a go at removing my swirl marks with a machine polish, what sort of RPM are the polishers spinning at? does it vary depending on product being used?

cheers

You can set different speeds to spread, work and breakdown the polish. There is a very helpful guide that is worth reading on Detailingworld.