got my flex 3401 and tried it...

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asharma

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WOW...nice results and easy to use!!!!! Had done my wifes 2002 indigo blue Golf a couple weeks ago with my PCXP and 4" pads and M105/205...Results were good but took forever!!!!! THe flex is much faster to cut...Used 6" yellow pad, 1-2 passes and got rid of the swirling in the areas i had slacked off on when i was getting tired with the PCXP...Even in the areas that i thought the PCXP did a good job, the shine is much deeper with the flex because it just handles paint correction a whole lot better...Now for the RIDS...I got rid of ALL the swirls but the RIDS, the RIDS...Some I managed to greatly diminish but are still there and believe me the paint was geting HOT...So how does one totally get rid of RIDS? I don't think it is a limitation of the flex (vs. Rotary) as I took my midnight blue Boxster to a professional in April who used a rotary for 6 hrs and it still came back with RIDS as they were afraid they were going to burn the paint...Believe me, I still have a wack of them RIDS but no swirls... should I move to a PFW pad or surbuf pad? Thoughts? thanks in advance...
 
Just some food for thought from my own experiences (being a flex newbie myself)



- Highest I'd go is orange pad. Yellow can do a lot of marring (and really heats it up; accidently burned paint my first time with yellow doing stupid stuff)



- If you have RIDs left behind after oyur correction and they resist your efforts to remove them with orange, I'd bump up to a PFW + SIP. If 2 hits don't remove them (usually I can wetsand an entire panel with 2000 then remove all wetsanding scratches and haze with 2 hits), I'd just accept them - your paint will need to be corrected (polished) down the road again, so why burn through your clear now when you'll have to do it again in a year or two anyways. Even on a show car, going for 100% is a loser's game - you will get marring over time, so why not do a bit of correction and have 90%, versus a lot of correction (and clear removal) and 100%, which will turn into 90% within a year anyways.
 
thanks,but if the RIDS are not throught the clear (i can't feel them with my nail) why don't they come out? IS it a matter of just more passes? Also, I did not have a problem with the yellow LC pad, minimal marring...Were u using M105/205?
 
asharma said:
thanks,but if the RIDS are not throught the clear (i can't feel them with my nail) why don't they come out?
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because they're deep in the clear.



Sure, you can remove them by doing more passive/more aggressive method, but I'd just blend them in and move again. Polishing is a losing game you can never win - you will never be able to maintain 100% perfection over the course of, say, 12mths, and eventually you will strike through if you do it over and over and over and..........................trying to chase every RID
 
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