light swirls and scratches!! help!!

[imported_john1c]

this is what im planning to do.. see what you think.



wash

(i dont need claying)

use optimum polish using a orange pad

use menzerna final polish with a white pad

use adams butter wax with a black pad

use nattys blue paste wax using a foam applicator pad with hand...



what you think?



i have light swirls and light scratches..



i have a black g35 coupe..



whats the difference between optimum polish and compound..

and whats really good polishes?





thanks a lot

[drew.haynes]

How do you know you don`t need clay?

[imported_john1c]

i just clayed a week ago

[drew.haynes]

i just clayed a week ago

I guess that would let you know huh?



EDIT: I`ll be doing SSR2.5, SSR1, and AIO tonight on my T/A that has HORRIBLE swirls and holograms left over from a visit to a BAD body shop... I`ll post lots of B/A pics.

[imported_mburnickas]

Did you use a PC or Rotary?



Also where the pads clean?

[drew.haynes]

Did you use a PC or Rotary?



Also where the pads clean?

Asking me? I haven`t touched it yet. It was nearly swirl free til some moron took a rotary to it and gave it back to me with the whole car covered in holograms. That describes the BETTER part of the paint now. Sickening. But this is his thread I don`t wanna take it over.

[imported_mburnickas]

I think whomever used the rotary did not know how to use this tool and/or used the incorrect process. Rotary`s are great but evil in the wrong hands....

[drew.haynes]

I think whomever used the rotary did not know how to use this tool and/or used the incorrect process. Rotary`s are great but evil in the wrong hands....

Yeah no joke... ~50 yr old guy with his own shop... you`d think he`d know how to do his job... but the paint on my new panels looks horrible too. I`m gonna see what the PC can do and see if I can avoid going back to him.

[imported_mburnickas]

PC should help with some SSR or optimum comp [OC] should help. I am switching to OC since SSR gets to dusty for me.



UPS man just dropped off my order!

[drew.haynes]

PC should help with some SSR or optimum comp [OC] should help. I am switching to OC since SSR gets to dusty for me.



UPS man just dropped off my order!

Well I have no PC experience at all until later tonight.. so idk what dealing w/ dust is even like!

[Deviant]

Dust is when the polish is completely broken down and starts to dry out. Optimum products don`t dust once the polish is broken down making things a little cleaner and also making it easier to work with.



Optimum compound is more of a heavy duty polish (heavier swirling, oxidation, etc) while optimum polish is more on the lighter side

[imported_themightytimmah]

Bad looking rotary work is alot easier to correct than you might think. Last time I had a severely hologrammed car in the shop, Optimum polish via rotary/white pad followed with FPII/Cyclo/Green took it out perfectly. A PC and SSR2.5/polishing should take out hologramming with a minimum of fuss.

[tustah]

Depending on how light the swirls/scratches are, you might want to start off with OP before using OC. Test a panel to see what kind of results you get with the polish/pad.

[imported_mburnickas]

Dust is when the polish is completely broken down and starts to dry out. Optimum products don`t dust once the polish is broken down making things a little cleaner and also making it easier to work with.



Optimum compound is more of a heavy duty polish (heavier swirling, oxidation, etc) while optimum polish is more on the lighter side

That is why I switched from Optimum from SSR. SSR is why to dusty for me. Like you have a sand storm!

[drew.haynes]

That is why I switched from Optimum from SSR. SSR is why to dusty for me. Like you have a sand storm!

Once it starts to dust... does the does scratch the paint? seems like it would but I am a n00b.