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12-19-2004, 02:03 AM
Ok so I just received my order of sonus pads and I was totally stoked. I washed the car, dried it and started to apply 3M finesse IT swirl remover for darker cars onto it via a pc 7336 with orange cutting pad. Now I set the pc to 4 and started buffing the hood, polished it off with the polishing bonnet from sonus then touched up the hood with a towel. It turned out semi-decent. Then later that night I noticed under some fluorescent lighting that I had swirled up my whole hood. Not minor swirls like I had before but extremely bad swirls. Now this is all on a black car but what I`m wondering is what did I do wrong? Previously when I used the pad that had originally came with the pc this never had happened. Oh and I forgot to mention that I applied this 3M compound on top of some water spots. So in essence I have a few questions.
1. What could have caused this?
2. What is an ideal speed to set the buffer to when using a compound, polish, etc?
3. Is the orange pad too aggressive for my purpose?
4. Is using a slower speed on the buffer better for taking out swirls?
Thanks in advance.
1. What could have caused this?
2. What is an ideal speed to set the buffer to when using a compound, polish, etc?
3. Is the orange pad too aggressive for my purpose?
4. Is using a slower speed on the buffer better for taking out swirls?
Thanks in advance.