Does Meg's 105 Finish Buffer Trail Free with Foamed Wool??

[JohnKleven]

The answer is: Type / Characteristic of the clearcoat.

Different clearcoats respond differently to different compounds.





If you use 105+wool on a super hard Audi or Bentley clearcoat, you can easily go from 105 to Menz85. It'll look great. On certain colours on hard cc, incredibly, you can even 2 step the 105...(1. Wool 2. Polishing pad) and still get great results. See pic below.It all depends on your familiarity with that specific clearcoat, and the proper "tactics to skin that cat" :bounce

I wouldn't exactly call Bentley clearcoat Hard. More like one of the softest clearcoats known to man.

 

[gigondaz]

I wouldn't exactly call Bentley clearcoat Hard. More like one of the softest clearcoats known to man.

Did 3 Conti GTs, and the clearcoat happened to be the very hard type (with no visible Orange Peel). Mmmm.....this is interesting.

It could be because some of these cars are re-conditioned (not brand new), and could have been professionally re-finished with a very hard clearcoat.



Some Porsches I did had quite hard CCs. But, MOST Porsches are crappily soft. Do you share the same observation on Porsches?

 

[David Fermani]

Out of the 10+ Bentley/Rolls I've done, I've found them all to have extremely soft clears where Porsche paint is *almost identical* to them. I've never seen either one with factory paint that had remotely hard paint. Pleasure to work with actually.

 

[Accumulator]

My b/c Porsches always had fairly hard clear, but those were older, IIRC my most recent one was a '95.

 

[SuperBee364]

I wouldn't exactly call Bentley clearcoat Hard. More like one of the softest clearcoats known to man.

As Greg Nichols said after we did a black Bentley, "It's like polishing butter."

 

[gigondaz]

As Greg Nichols said after we did a black Bentley, "It's like polishing butter."

Groan! I hate soft clearcoats.

There was this so-called limited edition Porsche that I did (911 Millenium) that came with a special Violet Chromaflair paintwork. Changes from medium black to dark green with violet hues. It was definitely factory paint, and it was butter-soft!!!:bawling:



Some clears are so soft that when I wipe off the thin Menz 106FF residue, it scratches!

Dang!!!