Looking for a otc product to hide swirls

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I am looking for a otc product that can fill/hide swirls. I'm currently using NXT 2.0. I also have M21 2.0 . What options would you guys recommend?
 
Pep Boys has Autoglym Super Resin polish which supposedly has some filling ability. Megs ColorX and NXT fill but the fillers just wash away.
 
Accumulator said:
Heh heh, yeah...I was just gonna suggest the #9 also. Wish SRP was OTC in my area!
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I have used both and find SRP to be better at hiding than #9. I was very surprised at how well it hides defects. Not just on paint either. I used it on a marked up clear bra and it really made a noticeable difference in the appearance of swirls and marring it had. Washing the area brought them right back but that's expected from filling and not removing defects.
 
Anthony A said:
I have used both and find SRP to be better at hiding than #9..
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Oh yeah, agree completely. I retired my #9 a long time ago, though I do still prefer it on certain older single stage paints. Perhaps the best thing about it is that you can find it anywhere.



I just wish that SRP were more commonly available in more areas; it's still not OTC in my area, and it wasn't all that long ago that I seemed like the only guy in the US who used it!
 
Generally, the cheap crap waxes will do the best job at filling. The Dupont Teflon brand wax was amazing at hiding swirls. I've also gotten some good hiding with TW Platinum. NXT for me was always so-so, great at really light swirls but no magic on brush induced scratching.
 
As far as paint correction is concerned, you need something better than OTC products. You can achieve reducing the swirl marks some, but you need to step it up. I would just suggest a good AIO product if it's OTC. I use Mothers Cleaner Wax, it works well but maybe hides 50% of swirls if that. I think Mothers is about the best you can get OTC in my opinion.
 
FinishLineAuto said:
As far as paint correction is concerned, you need something better than OTC products. You can achieve reducing the swirl marks some
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I don't agree. Megs UC is aggressive stuff and with the right pad will do some serious correction. You can also get some of the pro Megs stuff OTC in auto body supply shops.
 
I have heard good things about Autoglym Super Resin polish .Which as stated is now available OTC at PepBoys
 
rwisejr said:
I have heard good things about Autoglym Super Resin polish ...
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And it's not just a "use it to fill" product either. While it doesn't correct as much as ZAIO, nor chemically clean a well as KAIO, it's still one of my favorite AIO products ever and probably the one I reach for most often.
 
Anthony A said:
I don't agree. Megs UC is aggressive stuff and with the right pad will do some serious correction. You can also get some of the pro Megs stuff OTC in auto body supply shops.
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Well, let me put it this way. Majority of professional line products are not OTC and usually OTC to means like something of a retail store (ie: fred meyers, O'reilly's, Pep Boys etc) not an auto body supply shop. If you are lucky to find a more professional product OTC somewhere awesome that doesn't really happen much. Just because I see WalMart carrying Auto-Glym doesn't make Auto-Glym OTC now. It's really not a big deal but I do have to agree that with the right pad you can get some good results with OTC products, but there is a vast of other products not OTC that are much superior.
 
FWIW: I've used Mother's sealer and glaze and autoglym super resin polish.



Of the 2, mother's did the most filling but I prefer SRP cuz it fills and protects so reduces my steps.



From DB, I learned and confirmed that you should put something on top of SRP cuz the fillers would go away. The protection is still there though. So after about a weak, some swirls re-appeared when I did not top it off. However its way easier to use for application and removal.



For mothers, I applied 476s on top and it did a decent job of hiding swirls for a few weeks (I did not wash it). Or maybe it was due to the 476s...
 
corrswitch said:
From DB, I learned and confirmed that you should put something on top of SRP cuz the fillers would go away. The protection is still there though. So after about a weak, some swirls re-appeared when I did not top it off....
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Huh, I never noticed that the few times I left SRP untopped, but then it's been forever since I skipped that. Better safe than sorry anyhow, huh? Might as well throw some kind of (true) LSP on there...
 
Another vote here for Megs Ultimate Compound. I've had really good results on my black '99 Dodge Dakota, not so good of luck on a '99 XJ Jag that I did, as the clear seemed to be pretty hard on it. Plus I'm in need of some new pads.
 
Accumulator said:
Huh, I never noticed that the few times I left SRP untopped, but then it's been forever since I skipped that. Better safe than sorry anyhow, huh? Might as well throw some kind of (true) LSP on there...
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As I mentioned in my previous post I found SRP to be very good at hiding swirls but the defects did reappear after I washed the area. I didn't top it with anything so I can't say how much longer it would have hid the swirls if I had topped it.
 
Anthony A said:
.. I didn't top [SRP] with anything so I can't say how much longer it would have hid the swirls if I had topped it.
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Topped with something durable, it'll continue to conceal for a good long time. Thus I suspect that the "fillers" aren't just oils/etc., which often dissipate (causing flaws to reapper) even while the LSP topper is still OK.



I usually top with something like Collinite 476S, the SRP/476S combo was my fave for family/friends details back when I did those.
 
Thank you to everyone for their input! I know that filling is not the way to go. I knew that people would look down on me for asking about filling products. I just wanted to make the car look better until i have time to try and correct it.
 
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