What is Mezerna`s Final Polish after all?

[imported_jgv]

It`s supposed to be a mild polish, to follow the Intensive Polish. Well, I`m beginning to question this.



Lately I`ve been using our 3M PI-III Machine Polish, their final step before our Finishing Glaze, and this to remove any haze left by the DACP. It works, with a polishing pad it lives the surface clean, but this weekend I tried the same with the Menzerna`s FP. It left, as usually a glass like surface but did not remove those haze marks from the DACP w/ the cut pad and the PC.



My thoughts: It is a different kind of product, it works and flashes different. It is very mild but, doesn`t remove the light haze left by DACP but prepares the surface in an incredible way, ready as it can be for....PO73? Their Sealant Wax? Are they part of a process? Well, I`ve followed with that wax, and as expected great results, but then I noticed I should have used the IP or even DACP with a polishing pad, to remove the haze.



I don`t know yet what it is, but I`m sure it`s not a simple final polish. Doesn`t work like one, doesn`t buff like one. Yet, great surface after it.

[imported_jgv]

By the way, as I`ve not used the Menzerna polishers separate before, I hadn`t noticed this yet. What I like about the DACP is that it removes light cutting compound marks easy with the PC, so I`ve been using it. Since then it was the first time I tested the Menzerna FP with it, though I use the Fast Cut regularly before the DACP.

[OUCH]

In my experience Final Polish is just a glaze, it doesnt have any abrasives I don`t think

[Bruce]

I have some FP which I plan to use on a problem car, but not until swirls and all visible hazing have already been removed (in my case, by Einszett Paint Polish, which I highly recommend). My thoughts--still just theory--are that the smoother the paint surface, the less reflected light is scattered, and therefore the better the shine. I don`t think you can ever get a paint surface perfectly smooth, but the FP might help.



Thus, I`ll be using FP to make my paint "smoother," but not to remove hazing or hide swirls, or to enhance gloss with glaze-type oils. Will I notice an improvement in shine or gloss? I`ll let you know.

[kgustafson4@msn.com]

I`m literally on break right now from using the Final Polish with a PC and a CMA white pad. My car was new in November, and I don`t have a major problem with swirls. The FP actually did a really got job of tackling the one problem area I had, which was the A pillars on my Mini Cooper. They were highly swirled, and the FP removd the swirls and shined them up very nicely. :up



I am finiding that it is not the easiest to remove, but humidity is ultra high today so that may be affecting it. I like the product, though.

[imported_jgv]

Well, after having used some polishes this weekend, today I went to my garage to clean and remembered to clean the product bottles from the remaining residues on top of them. What I`ve found is that the dried residues of DACP, 3M Machine Polish, Einzsett Paint Polish and others, are like a paste that becomes dust when you touch it. On the Menzerna`s FP the residues resembled more like plastic, like when you clean a paint brush with dried paint and you have all those paint plastic films residue. A film, that`s what best describes what I think FP lives on the surface, of what? I don`t know.