2013 black Lexus ES with only minor swirls Fromm car washing

[Todd@RUPES]

Sounds good to me. The less work the better. I`ll start with my LC black pad with menzerna 4500 and see how it looks.

Do you have a white pad? If so I would start there.

Even though Menzerna uses a very fine diminshing oxide abrasive, it is still very hard. It seems to like friction in order to brake it down.

Using a pad with little-to-no mechanical action (cut) in conjunction with the hard abrasive and a dual-action polisher is going to, at best, greatly increase the amount of time you have to spend polishing each section and make your true results hard to gauge.

This is because SF4500 and SF4000, although not designed to "fill", use a thick oil that can mask or temporarily hide defects. If you find that you are getting a flawless finish, quickly, I would be very leery of the actual result. By using too soft of a pad you could be creating a glazing effect.

Instead, use something like a Lake Country white pad. This will provide enough friction to break down the abrasive and burnish your finish to a high-gloss, true swirl-free finish. It is one of those weird circumstances were using a more abrasive pad will yield a higher-quality, truer finish.

[mathematics]

Makes a lot of sense. I do have a white LC pad. I`ll go with that. Thanks for the info!

[mathematics]

Went with the LC yellow pad with only FG400. Scrubbed with nanoskin on the DA, then polished, followed by dr. Beasley formula 1201 sealant followed by colinite 845 wax

[parttimer]

Isn`t yellow the most cut off all the pads? Looks great but odd you went with the most cut pad when other suggest a pretty much low/no cut pad.

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[mathematics]

Tried the white pad and wasn`t happy with the results. The yellow pad had the best result.