How to Apply AIOs?

racer909

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I mainly detail cars for friends and family and have been interested in using AIOs to speed up the process. Not looking for a lot of cut, or I would use a polish. Just looking for good cleaning and lasting protection. For this reason (and no shipping) I have decided to go with DG501. I tried it out last week on my 2011 white Jeep GC and I didn't notice a whole lot of cleaning. I just purchased this vehicle and have not touched the paint prior to last weekend. To me, the paint seemed to be in pretty good shape, so maybe that's why my pads weren't very dirty. Anyways, I was using a GG v3 with 5" LC white pads, speed 4 with 2-3 section passes. I used two pads for the vehicle. Should I be doing more section passes? I didn't think it was necessary to do 5-6 section passes if I wasn't trying to correct, just clean. Thanks in advance..
 
If you want it to really clean well, as in don't want to clay, you need to load the pad up with a decent amount. Probably a teaspoon for a 5" pad to start with. If you run it too dry, it polishes better but doesn't clean as well. And its easy to do that because it is so forgiving either way you use it.
 
I'll take the polishing too, I was just wondering if I wasn't doing enough section passes because my pads were still relatively clean. I probably could have used a little more product, as I was doing a thin "x" pattern per panel. I was worried about it being difficult to buff off so I went a little lean on product.
 
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