Polish recommendations...
Discussion
I bought myself a machine polisher last year - but haven't had the guts to use it yet!! The plan is to filch an old panel from a local body-shop and practice on that first.
In the meantime, the paint on my wife's car really needs some attention.
So the first question relates to what polishes should I be buying for manual use, and for machine application when I start using the polisher? I'm running out of my stock of various Meguiars stuff,so actually need to restock everything.
I guess I'm really after a suggested consumables list for paint care, from the experts out there - for manual then machine polishing.
Also, what can I expect to achieve with the machine polisher? The wife had some respray work done by a local guy a year ago, and it isn't a good finish. It's dull - looks like it hasn't been polished - and there is orange-peel; will I be able to sort those out, or is that a step too far?
It's metallic black, on an ')7 Clio 197, so I'm guessing clear-coat over the paint.
Sorry for a rambling post....
In the meantime, the paint on my wife's car really needs some attention.
So the first question relates to what polishes should I be buying for manual use, and for machine application when I start using the polisher? I'm running out of my stock of various Meguiars stuff,so actually need to restock everything.
I guess I'm really after a suggested consumables list for paint care, from the experts out there - for manual then machine polishing.
Also, what can I expect to achieve with the machine polisher? The wife had some respray work done by a local guy a year ago, and it isn't a good finish. It's dull - looks like it hasn't been polished - and there is orange-peel; will I be able to sort those out, or is that a step too far?
It's metallic black, on an ')7 Clio 197, so I'm guessing clear-coat over the paint.
Sorry for a rambling post....
Sounds like the respray may need either redoing properly or possibly something as strong as a rub down with wet and dry paper followed by increasingly fine compounding.
If your machine is a DA I'd recommend Sonax EX 04-06 and a medium pad. On sound paint you can't do much damage with that combo (as long as you are sensible) but it'll do quite a lot of swirl correction and give you a glossy finish in the one bottle.
If your machine is a DA I'd recommend Sonax EX 04-06 and a medium pad. On sound paint you can't do much damage with that combo (as long as you are sensible) but it'll do quite a lot of swirl correction and give you a glossy finish in the one bottle.
trickywoo said:
Sounds like the respray may need either redoing properly or possibly something as strong as a rub down with wet and dry paper followed by increasingly fine compounding.
If your machine is a DA I'd recommend Sonax EX 04-06 and a medium pad. On sound paint you can't do much damage with that combo (as long as you are sensible) but it'll do quite a lot of swirl correction and give you a glossy finish in the one bottle.
It is DA, so thanks. Other cars we have just need a bit of gentle correction, so that sounds like it will be the ticket for those, if not for the 197. It durant warrant a respray, as it's worth nothing now, and my wife isn't as anal as I am about cars! I might resort to wet sanding and compound, if necessary, but I'll see how I get on. If your machine is a DA I'd recommend Sonax EX 04-06 and a medium pad. On sound paint you can't do much damage with that combo (as long as you are sensible) but it'll do quite a lot of swirl correction and give you a glossy finish in the one bottle.
Iso this stuff useful if applied by hand?
Hainey said:
If it's that bad G10 compound, and then if still rough go in with the harsher g3. Then glaze. G10 is usually enough though.
Youtube is your mate here, as it was mine
Good call! A nice excuse to lock myself away with a beer and the laptop Youtube is your mate here, as it was mine
http://imgur.com/Akg9Aw7
26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
Hainey said:
http://imgur.com/Akg9Aw7
26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
Cheers! That's tomorrow evening sorted 26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
Hainey said:
http://imgur.com/Akg9Aw7
26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
Has that bonnet been painted? Seems a bit orange peely for Raider paint. 26 year old paint after some G10 and glaze before polish and wax. Hang in there and good luck!
Looks nice and glossy still
scratcher_ said:
Has that bonnet been painted? Seems a bit orange peely for Raider paint.
Looks nice and glossy still
I think it was when the vents went in, but that was 20+ years ago so memory isn't what it was. Looks nice and glossy still
It is smoother in the metal than the pic to be fair to it. The camera doesn't flatter it at all with that angle and crap lighting either and I could maybe have went more aggressive with G3 instead of G10 but I played it safe.
Anything with spanners and I'm fine but this bodywork stuff confuses me I'm afraid!
Hainey said:
scratcher_ said:
Has that bonnet been painted? Seems a bit orange peely for Raider paint.
Looks nice and glossy still
I think it was when the vents went in, but that was 20+ years ago so memory isn't what it was. Looks nice and glossy still
It is smoother in the metal than the pic to be fair to it. The camera doesn't flatter it at all with that angle and crap lighting either and I could maybe have went more aggressive with G3 instead of G10 but I played it safe.
Anything with spanners and I'm fine but this bodywork stuff confuses me I'm afraid!
T40ORA said:
You're scaring me off!
Don't. He is a 19 stone powerlifter (well he was at the time, he's a fat knacker now that he's married) who used some seriously aggresive compound and put all his weight into it without making the panel wet enough as he was told and warned to do. Basically no foreplay and balls deep, full on fred flintstone mode.Graham was a mug. Wet the panel and light pressure and continuous movement always. Don't be like Graham lol
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