Good news, and my contribution to Autopia...

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breakneckvtec

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Good news first. I went down the highway by my school between classes today to see what DIY wash bays I could find. I went down the highway in the direction I never went before. Sure enough, about 3 miles down I found a really nice one, which seemed to be a quiet one to. Its near 70 today and so nice and only one person was there. I then began to circle the building and found 4 power outlets that could power my PC. The lights are flourescent as well. I now have a location while at school to fix the swirl marks on my car with my PC, if I can make it look good under those lights it will look good in the sun!



Better news, right next door, as in a stones throw, as in I could toss a pebble and hit the wall, was a Harley dealership. Lucky me. I strolled in and sure enough I saw some S100, liquid and paste versions. The packaging is very similar to that of P21S. S100 was cheaper too. So I bought some, paste version to match the paste version of P21S I have coming.



My contribution to autopia. I hear alot of talk about S100 and P21S being the same. I decided I am going to do the swirl removal on my car, and then on half the hood put P21S and S100 on the other half. I will then take pics and post them up. Lets see if there is a noticeable difference, or any difference. If its been done already....oh well I am doing it anyway :bigups
 
Sweet! Good find on that car wash. Sounds like it will work well for ya. I'm going to do the P21S/S100 side by side test this weekend as well. I'll be doing it on a lighter colored car so our tests will be different enough that I'm still going to do it. I predict that the differences are going to be such that a photograph isn't going to show them. I would imagine that they will be in application and feel and not so much opticly. We'll see, eh? :bigups
 
Yeah, we will see, I will go out on a limb and say that with my car being darker, and my camera being very good, we will notice a difference, neither better just different.
 
Congratulations on that great find.



Like I told you last night, I will be glad to help you figure out the steps you should take when you decide to tackle the project. Gimmie a PM or email when you are ready. :up



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^ Thanks Tony!
 
Volvoguy- Thanks, while I am at it, for swirl removal I will be doing:

FI II, yellow CMA pad

3M SMR, white CMA pad



What are your thoughts?
 
I don't see a purpose for using the SMR with the white pad. I'd clean off the yellow one and use that again. That's just me though. It depends on if your swirls are gone after the FI II as well. The white pad doesn't do much for me I guess. Maybe I've just ignored its usefulness.
 
Maybe I will go to the yellow with the SMR then step down if needed to the white. Of course as I have said my biggest fear is not being able to rid myself of these swirls. The wait for my products is just killing me.:(
 
The white pad doesn't do much for me I guess.
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I don't think I have used my white pad from CMA yet. And I've used the PC and various products on a regular basis. I just haven't felt the need for using the white pad yet. I'm sure the occasion will arise that I will eventually need to use it though.
 
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