105/205 orange/white help

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8mpg

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Newbie to the whole paint correction thing. I have done a months worth of reading here trying to really learn what the heck Im doing and I thought I had a grasp until I put it to practice :D



Anyways, Im using a PC 7424xp with 105/205 combo on a Dodge Ram silver truck. The paint is pretty soft. The previous owner had run it through plenty of automated car washes and you can tell. There are tons of light scratches all over the truck. They are not RIDS, all clearcoat scratches.



I cant seem to get these things out. Im afraid I might have to wetsand a bit.



So here are some crappy pics, but you can see the scratches if you look.



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can you feel them with your finger nail? who makes your pads? how long are you working a section? what size is your section your working on? what speed are you using? how big is the pad itself? we need to know this stuff to give you a good answer.
 
thanks for the quick reply...



4" lake country pads.

cant feel the scratches with the finger nail

working each section with 5-6 passes, horizontal, then vertical, etc

working on a 1-2' x 2'. The last section I tried was the area behind the back door window, from the crease (bottom window) to the roof

Using speed 6 with firm pressure. I marked the backing pad to make sure its still spinning
 
Thanks for the reply.. I am fully priming it like the KBM way. I really rub it in with my fingers to get an even spread.
 
8mpg- How many section passes (each "section pass" = buffing until the M105 is almost dry and then buffing off the residue) are you doing? It can take quite a few to get the job done, so don't give up after just two or three tries.



You might oughta aim for "better" and not shoot for "perfect". I'd much rather have marred, but thick, original paint than have to get a panel repainted, and if you thin the clear too much that's where you'll be headed (it might take a little while for the UV exposure to kill the paint, but thin the clear enough and it'll happen).



Along those same lines, I really don't think you oughta wetsand it. I'd recommend you do that on a few panels/vehicles you don't care about rather than risk an "oops!" with your truck.



Note that it's not even *remotely* a matter of cutting through the clear; you don't want to thin it too much.



Off the top of my head, if six section passes with M105/4" orange don't completely correct the marring, that oughta at least make it a whole lot better. I'd stop with the serious correction at that point and switch to the M205.



Don't fall victim to any of the "Curses of Autopia"...among them the notion that any vehicle can be corrected to like-new condition and that only perfection is good enough, and/or the thought that you oughta be able to work miracles because hey, look at all the wonderful jobs featured in Click & Brag.



Do *your* best, on *your* vehicle, with the products, tools, and abilities that *you* have to work with. Then be satisfied with your accomplishment. Seriously, it's gonna look *VERY* good, and that oughta be good enough for a used vehicle that'd suffered tunnel washes.



Just get the job done and concentrate on not marring it up again when you do your by-hand washes, which is harder than most people would ever imagine ;)
 
Thanks for the help guys.. Im doing better now. Out in the sunlight, I can see better.



Doing better with a little less pressure, less product (105), and making sure it dries well and a couple more passes after that.



Definitely not going to be perfect, but so far it looks much better. Only did the back half of the truck...darn thing is HUGE
 
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