Megs 105 and SIP Not Working

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jw

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I started working on our 07 Mercedes GL450 this afternoon and I'm having some problems. It has quite a few scratches(you can't feel them with your fingernails) and these products don't seem to be doing anything. I started with my PC with SIP on Orange 4 inch pad, this didn't touch the scratches. It improved the gloss but did nothing on the scratches. I spread the product with pc at speed 2 and then polished and 5 or 6 until the polish broke down. I then went to Megs 105 on a yellow pad, this may have made them a little better but not much. Same speed setting as before. We're not talking horrible scratches here, what gives? Am I wasting my time? I don't want to spend 6 hours polishing this thing for it not to look better? What am I doing wrong? Is this clear just too hard and I need to purchase a rotary?



thanks guys.
 
I know it has the ceramic clearcoat, but does that mean these products with a pc just won't work or what? Do I need to go to a Rotary or should I just give and up and put a coat of wax over it for protection?
 
jw said:
Is this clear just too hard and I need to purchase a rotary?



thanks guys.
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After listing the products you've already tried and if they haven't removed the scratches, then yes, you may need to use a rotary to get the job done......
 
Are these a few random scratches or a ton of scratches. If they are a few random sractches I'd just live with them. SIP should remove micromarring and light swirls.
 
jw said:
I know it has the ceramic clearcoat, but does that mean these products with a pc just won't work or what? Do I need to go to a Rotary or should I just give and up and put a coat of wax over it for protection?
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Yep, sorry. Sounds like thats the case. I would probably put some wax on their for now.
 
imho as a last resort before going rotary I'd try m105 and a 3.5" PFW pad via a UDM/g110 if that dont work then yes you will need a rotary, however the RIDS/scratches may be to deep in the CC to get out safely w/o premature CC failure... just my .02cents



G110 and UDM = better than a PC....IMHO....



rotary = faster than all.... ;)



just my .02 cents
 
Often times using a PC on really hard clears will result in very visible micromarring/haze that is then *impossible* to remove with a PC; you'd have to get a rotary to get it out. So be careful with how jiggy you get with a PC on ceramiclear.



If the 105 isn't leaving the above mentioned micro marring, it's your best bet to effect any real correction on that clear. It'll take a bunch of applications (as you've discovered) to do it, though. 3.5" PFW pads will give you more bite. I would really *not* use yellow LC cutting foam. That pad is notorious for leaving the above mentioned difficult-to-remove micromarring/haze when used with a PC.
 
The 105 didn't appear to leave any micromarring. but it really didn't get rid of anything. I think maybe I'll go for the Makita rotary.
 
Before going over the whole car you should just do the worst section first.



Keeping trying with M105 and see if it improves. Atleast this way ull work out how many passes you require to correct the paint. May very well need half a dozen applications of M105.
 
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