Jngrbrdman
08-15-2005, 10:31 AM
I think my feelings about the quality of the Legacy paint is well documented at this point, but one thing I can say is that it sure does polish out easily. I made an appointment last week to leave my car at the dealership to have the ECU sent in to be reflashed and I wanted to have the car looking good when I dropped it off. Mainly what I wanted to do was get to know every scratch on the car so that I would know if new ones appeared when I got the car back. ;) On Saturday I spent a couple hours polishing the car with a new product that I haven`t tested yet. Since the swirls were fairly minor I used Detailer`s Pride Mild Swirl Eliminator (http://www.premiumautocare.com/dp-mild-swirl-eliminator.html). Since I was only dealing with minor swirls, I used a finishing pad with my Porter Cable 7424 on this job. No sense in using a canon to kill a mosquito.
This swirl remover by DP is actually pretty good. I was impressed with how fast it breaks down and begins to dust. If you haven`t ever used a polish by machine before, then what I mean by `dust` is that when the polish has broken down completely and is done cutting your paint, it will clump up and basically spit out all over the place. That is how you know you have worked the polish well enough and it is time to move on to another panel or reapply the polish to your pad. For polishes that don`t dust it is hard to know when you have worked it in well enough. Sometimes you don`t know if you still have swirls left because the polish was ineffective or if you just didn`t work it long enough. With this polish it is very easy to tell when you are done. It probably took less than 5 minutes per panel to have the polish do what it needs to do. For all the paint`s fault, I can honestly say that it polishes out easily. All it took was one application per panel to remove the swirls and leave a perfect shine behind.
Buffing the product off was a little tricky. My experience may not be typical since this was my first run with the product, but it seemed to smear a little when I was buffing it off. It could be because I was using too much product. Not knowing what the product was capable of may account for using too much and thus creating the smearing problem. It wasn`t a big deal though. I buffed it off as best as I could and then moved on to the next step. After polishing I used the Wolfgang pre-wax Polish Enhancer (http://www.premiumautocare.com/woprpoen16ou.html) as a base for the final step which would be the Wolfgang sealant. (http://www.premiumautocare.com/wodeglpase16.html) The pre-wax polish enhancer cleaned up the oils that were causing the streaking and that was that. After applying and buffing off the sealant I was treated to the perfect shine. I was just about to try out the Detailer`s Pride Suface Sheld (http://www.premiumautocare.com/dp-premium-surface-shield.html) this time, but I just love the Wolfgang look far too much. I am going to polish out and try this stuff on the loaner car the dealership gave me instead. ;) It`s the same color as my Legacy so it should give me a good idea of which look I prefer. It`s my first run with most of the Detailer`s Pride products, so I am definitely looking forward to the results. So far I`m not disappointed at all. This is exactly the type of quality I would expect from the company that brought the world Pinnacle and Wolfgang.
Pictures after this job wouldn`t look any better than the last time I polished out the car, (http://www.ocdetails.com/html/clear_guard.html) so I`m going to post those instead. I`ll get new pictures up after I test out the Surface Shield on the loaner car. ;)
http://www.ocdetails.com/assets/images/FrontSun1.jpg
http://www.ocdetails.com/assets/images/RearSun1.jpg
This swirl remover by DP is actually pretty good. I was impressed with how fast it breaks down and begins to dust. If you haven`t ever used a polish by machine before, then what I mean by `dust` is that when the polish has broken down completely and is done cutting your paint, it will clump up and basically spit out all over the place. That is how you know you have worked the polish well enough and it is time to move on to another panel or reapply the polish to your pad. For polishes that don`t dust it is hard to know when you have worked it in well enough. Sometimes you don`t know if you still have swirls left because the polish was ineffective or if you just didn`t work it long enough. With this polish it is very easy to tell when you are done. It probably took less than 5 minutes per panel to have the polish do what it needs to do. For all the paint`s fault, I can honestly say that it polishes out easily. All it took was one application per panel to remove the swirls and leave a perfect shine behind.
Buffing the product off was a little tricky. My experience may not be typical since this was my first run with the product, but it seemed to smear a little when I was buffing it off. It could be because I was using too much product. Not knowing what the product was capable of may account for using too much and thus creating the smearing problem. It wasn`t a big deal though. I buffed it off as best as I could and then moved on to the next step. After polishing I used the Wolfgang pre-wax Polish Enhancer (http://www.premiumautocare.com/woprpoen16ou.html) as a base for the final step which would be the Wolfgang sealant. (http://www.premiumautocare.com/wodeglpase16.html) The pre-wax polish enhancer cleaned up the oils that were causing the streaking and that was that. After applying and buffing off the sealant I was treated to the perfect shine. I was just about to try out the Detailer`s Pride Suface Sheld (http://www.premiumautocare.com/dp-premium-surface-shield.html) this time, but I just love the Wolfgang look far too much. I am going to polish out and try this stuff on the loaner car the dealership gave me instead. ;) It`s the same color as my Legacy so it should give me a good idea of which look I prefer. It`s my first run with most of the Detailer`s Pride products, so I am definitely looking forward to the results. So far I`m not disappointed at all. This is exactly the type of quality I would expect from the company that brought the world Pinnacle and Wolfgang.
Pictures after this job wouldn`t look any better than the last time I polished out the car, (http://www.ocdetails.com/html/clear_guard.html) so I`m going to post those instead. I`ll get new pictures up after I test out the Surface Shield on the loaner car. ;)
http://www.ocdetails.com/assets/images/FrontSun1.jpg
http://www.ocdetails.com/assets/images/RearSun1.jpg