Rapid Fire regimen

[glen e]

Speaking of quick and painless jobs - my neighbor bought a 2007 50K miles Hyundai sonata used, and the paint was in good shape with the prerequisite swirls and nicks but overall pretty good after we did a rinseless:



So he wanted crystal seal, so I decided to do a quick polish doing the following. It is now 90 degrees in fla and we were in the sun, so any use of UC almost dried immediately on the hot surface. So here`s what I did. I filled my Venus sprayer with waterless, and did a few passes with a nanoskin sponge and while still wet, used UC on a orange pad on a GG6, as it was still wet from the sponge it worked great. An immediate buff off while still wet with a MF, yeilded great results. A coat of CS and we were done on an hour and the car looks really nice:

[Todd@RUPES]

todd answered this in post 17

with an orbital and any of the products we are discussing here, you could use every one of them with an orbital every day for months and your paint would not suffer. These are micro abrasive and your clear coat is not electron thin...I asked this question of Todd a year ago and that was his answer...

Correct.. While paint is thin, the products we use on painted are designed to that scale...

To us paint is as thin as a sheet of paper
To the abrasive the paint is as tall as a mountain

It`s all relative. With something very mild like TPnS you could (in theory) use it every couple of months for for years and years and likely find little to no change in measurable paint thickness...

Then again if you apply it with a wool pad and a rotary the results would be different, but with a polishing pad and a da, you have nothing to worry about

[Greycar]

Correct.. While paint is thin, the products we use on painted are designed to that scale...

To us paint is as thin as a sheet of paper
To the abrasive the paint is as tall as a mountain

It`s all relative. With something very mild like TPnS you could (in theory) use it every couple of months for for years and years and likely find little to no change in measurable paint thickness...

Then again if you apply it with a wool pad and a rotary the results would be different, but with a polishing pad and a da, you have nothing to worry about

`Paint is as tall as a mountain`, that puts a visual to our discussion, thanks for that. I also looked at one of your sticky`s about abrasives and noticed gloss enhancing polish is rated 0 and tpns is rated 1. Why would one product be used over the other? Both used with white polishing pads?

[Orinda Auto Detail]

`Paint is as tall as a mountain`, that puts a visual to our discussion, thanks for that. I also looked at one of your sticky`s about abrasives and noticed gloss enhancing polish is rated 0 and tpns is rated 1. Why would one product be used over the other? Both used with white polishing pads?

GEP is just a "Gloss" Enhancer which should be followed with a dedicated LSP. TPNS is an all in one that can stand on it own feet.

[Greycar]

Thanks for the info.