Hi All,
I have a 2014 BMW 335i in the "black sapphire metallic" (metallic black) that I have had since it had about 10k miles. I have been using a Harbor Freight DA polisher with chemical guys hexlogic pads w/ HD Poxy or Blackfire wet diamond (started with poxy, didnt like the durability and moved on to BWD). Anyways, its been a while since I have had time to put a fresh coat of wax on the car and we had some freak summer rain (a very rare occurrence here in CA in the summer).`
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Long story short the car sat with water/dirt/other stuff on it and the BWD that i put on it a while ago was no longer offering any protection. Now i have some HEAVY water spots in the paint. I was able to finally spend a little time on the car today- i used a orange light cutting pad with HD Adapt with little results. I then tried Cut (same pad) which didnt seem to do much either. I was using my HF DA at about speed 4 applying medium pressure. In the shade and indirect sun it looks OK but in direct sunlight it looks really bad.`
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As im not an expert at this sort of thing im thinking about taking the car to a pro for a correction, but I would prefer to do it myself and save some coin. I do have access to my friends Griots DA which has a bit more power the the HF. Any suggestions on product to try? I think im going to need to compound it or at least a heavy polish to get this stuff out. I have to buy compound (the adapt and Cut i have were in small sample bottles). I do have some 3M ultrafine polish but i dont think thats going to do the job.
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I have a HD dealer nearby so that`s preferable, but I`m open to anything.
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Sorry for the long post & thanks in advance.
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