I have been given an early preview of some new pads from Cyclo and I believe they have done all detailers right by this new upgrade.
The first Cyclo pads were rubber booties attached to the foam pads. They were a real pain to get on and off but they were always centered. Then they came out with rubber booties which had velcro attached to them, the pads having velcro on them also. Switching out pads was now a breeze but you had to center the pads yourself which was not always fun. Get a pad to far to one side and you had foam shavings everywhere.
Now Cyclo has again upgraded their pads and they way they are attached. Gone are the velcro booties and in their place are two seperate posts and the new pads now lock into those posts. There is now the best of both worlds, they are easy to change out and they are always centered!!
So here are the pads:
I first removed the old velcro pad holders via my handy dandy Metabo wrench....lost my Cyclo wrench!
After the old pads are removed you simply screw in the new posts, tighten them down.
Here the Cyclo is all done with its new posts ready for its new pads. Took me about 5 minutes so far.
Now all you do is line up the pad with the post and push down, takes some light pressure but you hear it SNAP right into place.
Here both pads are on and secure ready for some polishing. Notice the extra thickness of the pads? They are actually two pads bonded together so after polishing one side of the car one would normally wash out the pads but now all you need to do is remove the pads, flip them over and keep on polishing.
The foam on the orange pads also feels different.....not sure how different just yet....just different. I also like the idea of the two different grade pads bonded together like in the below picture.....we have the finishing white bonded with the green cutting pads. I'm not a big user of the green pads but here the foam also feels different, softer, more flex and more give. I'll see how they work as I put them through their paces tomorrow.
*Edit - I wrote this last week and have had the chance to use these pads on several cars now, both single and dual stage, and they work fantastic. The pads are centered each time, they change out super fast and the white pads now feel as if you're buffing on a cloud
Anthony
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