Howdy from Texas

[thr_wedge]

Howdy from Texas. I recently rubbed against a yellow rubber coated pole with my wife`s white expedition! Doh! So I wash the truck, clay bar, a little rubbing and polishing by hand, and 99% of the paint transfer was removed and the finish still looked great. I wanted it to look 100% so broke out my 10 year old PC7424, a white polishing pad, a little polish, and went to work.

At that point I had catastrophic backing plate failure! NOOOO!!! The foam on the backing plate disintegrated, and I almost put the spinning/oscillating backing plate right into paint! Luck would have it that I did NOT, and saved the day, but now I need a new backing plate, and my pad is shot since it went spinning off into gravel.

I`ve been on an autopia mailing list since I bought the PC, don`t know if I was a member here before or not, and they had a good sale going on and I picked up new 5" backing plate, some new LC 5.5" pads, and added in the Klasse Twins since I have always been interested in them but for whatever reason just had always stuck with Meg GC.

So...my shipment comes in today, I`m going to do my car first (2012 Autumn Bronze Mazda 6) and then my wife`s 2010 white tri-coat Ford Expedition EL. Living in TX, we are currently out of drought, but that doesn`t change the fact that it could come back...so I am going to try some waterless & rinseless (thinking Meguiar`s D114 but I`m open to try a few and see what works best) and some sort of spray wax just for maintenance (thinking D156). But who knows, I`m not a brand snob so willing to try different things. First things first I need to get the Klasse on and go from there. Hopefully the Klasse looks good on my very dark metallic and my wife`s white metallic...that`s the first challenge!

[Pats300zx]

Welcome to Autopia !!! Do t forget to post pics

[65chevy]

good luck and take your time every thing will work out

[GearHead_1]

Welcome to Autopia.

[Jesse@Autopia]

Welcome to Autopia!!

[Stokdgs]

Welcome, Texas !
I have lots of family in S.A. and visit them often..
Glad that you guys are out of that dang drought... It really sucked...
The smaller diameter backing plate and pad will be easier to manage than those big 6" things, so keep where you are going now..
You will be needing a few pads, probably 5-6 of each, and a good pad cleaner to wash them out after every stint out there, and let them dry before you use them again.
Given the heat you have there, it wont take long to dry the pads outside if you can do that where you live.
Never used Klasse, know its been around for at least a decade +, but never wanted to mess with it - too high maintenance..
Glad you were able to not hit the paintwork with the DA spindle, that would have been brutal.. Great save !!
Good luck with this -
Dan F

[Van185]

Howdy and welcome from North Carolina!

[thr_wedge]

I`m in Austin, the last few years have been rough. Then we had the floods in April - June and finally are back to normal hot August.

The PC started vibrating, then thr backing plate just came apart, and somehow i pulled back just in time!

I should have taken some before pics, the fender actually looks pretty good after I took care of it, and now that I had some new pads I can finish it off...and do the rest of the car.

Decided to go Klasse based on durability reviews...we`ll see!

[tropicsteve]

welcome to AF. "Remember the Alamo!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=9cHLoHou8uY

[512detail]

Welcome to AF
Im in Kyle and work by rhe airport in austin
Pm me and we can exchange info.
I have a gallon Pinnacle liquid gloss rinseless wash id be happy to give you a few oz of it to try out. You`ll love it. I also have tons of other polishes etc I will never use.

Id be happy to fill a travel bottle with whatever as well.

I have a problem with buying too many things.

[Oldfordisbetter]

[mjlinane]

Welcome to Autopia!