Black car with car wash scratches - help!

[Bill D]

Any chance of just having a pro detail it twice a year?

[atbalfour]

Try different pad / polish combinations... there are no `best` pads and each will interact with certain types of paint/clearcoat differently.

[Coatings=crack]

I have a 2016 mustang in shadow black so similar paint. I got great correction with griots Correcting cream and an orange pad.

Mine was maybe not as rough as yours so maybe their fast correcting cream.

Note: I have a long throw and mini polisher with a 12mm through so maybe that helped be more aggresive.


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[Billy Baldone]

As everyone suggested, the 5`` pads are a must. But also on a PC, use Lake Country Thin pads, and stop buying cheap local pads. get a six pack from Autopia/Autogeek. 4 orange and 2 white. And order some 3D one. It works as a compound and polish depending on your pads.

[Accumulator]

shumax- Welcome to Autopia!

I`d rethink using a wool pad on your PC.

- It shouldn`t be necessary for correcting Ford clear
- Unless you use the right wool pad, you`ll merely instill new/additional marring, and it might be the kind that`s hard(er) to correct

If I had to do that job with a PC (which TBH, I simply would not do; Life`s too short to spend all those hours trying for >50% better) I`d *ABSOLUTELY* do it with a 4" plate/pad combo and I`d do the aggressive work with a MF Cutting Disk (NOT a foam or wool pad) and a compound like Meguiar`s M101. Then I`d follow up with a 4" foam polishing pad and some polish that`s sufficiently aggressive to remove the micro(?)-marring that the M101 will leave behind.

I`ve done all sorts of vehicles that way and while it took *FOREVER* to get remotely significant results from the PC, that will indeed do the job.

Did I mention that it`ll take many hours? Sorry, couldn`t resist...

EDIT: and I`d get, oh...guessing...three times as many pads of each kind as you think you could possibly need. Using a clean pad is simply essential as once they get loaded up with used product and cut-off clear they become basically ineffective, and cleaning them on-the-fly is a hassle, although the MF disks clean up pretty well with compressed air (from a compressor, not the little dusting cans).

FWIW, I spend more time cleaning my pads and inspecting my work than I do on the actual polishing (but then I`m no longer using a PC either).

[shumax]

It was a battle, but I won. 4” backing plate, Meguiars extra cut pad, Meguiars 105 and 2-3 passes on each panel. Got it to 95%. 100% on a few. Pleased but that’s a $hit ton of work. Sheew!

Thanks again for the tips!







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[Accumulator]

Shumax- Glad it worked out OK! Yes indeed, that`s the combo to get things done via PC

Heh heh, yeah...that [crap] ton of work is the best motivation ever to do everything you can to avoid remarring it!