Mistakes Made LETS HEAR THEM!

[BudgetPlan1]

First or second time using DA (GG6), spinning pad lifted from panel surface, polish sprays everywhere, pad launches. Looking all around for pad, guess I shoulda looked up. It`s really quite impressive how 2 or 3 pea-sized drops of polish can create the gargantuan mess it does when ya do something like this.

 

[JustJesus]

Just Jesus
What do you think of the D300 ? I assume you are using a MF pad?
Do you think it would be easy / light enough to use on a new car with very light beauty / love marks? Or might it be a bit too aggressive??
And I am really not intending to hi-jak the thread

You can always start a new thread. I do like it, though. A LOT. Had two 16oz bottles, but decided to get a gallon during a sale. And yes, I only use it with MF cut pads. I only use it for compounding, though. I would try something else for light beauty/love marks. If you wanted to stay with the Megs stuff, Maybe their new D166, or the D301 or D302, coupled with a finishing MF pad? For light stuff, I tend to reach for Poorboy`s World Polishes. Polish with Carnauba, or w/Sealant, and sometimes Professional Polish and topped with one of their waxes.

First or second time using DA (GG6), spinning pad lifted from panel surface, polish sprays everywhere, pad launches. Looking all around for pad, guess I shoulda looked up. It`s really quite impressive how 2 or 3 pea-sized drops of polish can create the gargantuan mess it does when ya do something like this.

Budget, that story/pic always crack me up. I can just imagine, "where`d the pad go?" before you finally find it.

 

[Accumulator]

.. I`m usually overly cautious and heavy on research to help minimize the level of the mistakes.

I *really* like that approach! I study/think on this stuff for *ages* before I actually try doing something for the first time and I`m *still* spending (literal) hours analyzing my Maintenance Wash Routine hoping to find ways to improve it.

Way back in `78, before I first ran a polisher, I bet I studied the whole subject for a dozen hours at least. Hey, researching Detailing stuff took a long time back then. Paid off, as "the new kid running the Milwaukee" quickly became the only guy in New Car Prep allowed to do dark vehicles, and I credit that studious approach for my never having had an oops! with a rotary.

 

[rlmccarty2000]

First time using my new power washer I did not press the sprayer adapter into place. I turned on the PW and it shot off like a bullet and hit my house. Super lucky it was not pointed at my car or it would have dented it badly.

I’ve lifted the buffer before powering it down, spraying compound all over the car and myself. Got to pay attention to details when detailing.

 

[Ferravette]

Ok here`s my mistake. Happened around 2003. Took what I thought was the quick detailer and proceeded to do the car. It seemed strange to me that it wasn`t as smooth as usual, but I thought it was the temperature. 3/4 of the way through I decided to look at the bottle. I accidentally picked up the leather cleaner instead of the detailer. They were the same color. Any way no big deal right? except it was on this car:

In the end no harm done, but now I look at every bottle every time I pick it up.

 

[SWETM]

I`m kind of new to serious detailing that only stretch a year back. But when I had my Audi S4 -92 2.5l turbo in the beginning of 2000. I first used Sonax hand polish and wax and did not get any longevity out of it. Got my hands on a spray sealant that I don`t remember the name of. But it was a good one and the behavior was like the Sonax BSD. The friends that used it got a couple of months out of it but not me. After the first wash it was almost done and after the second totaly failed. For a couple of years ago I got what was the problem. I always washed with Turtle Wax Super Wash. The thing with that is you take the car soap in the sponge and then wash and a rinse bucket and a new squirt of car soap in the sponge. It`s have a good amount of naptha in the car soap to help with tar sap and so on. That crap is not for maintance washes but for decon wash lol. It left a little wax on the car to the first rain. I had a clean car but not protection lol. And the hours of making the prep for lsp was gone after the first wash. Now I can laugh about it but man what I and my friends thought about why my car was not holding the lsp LOL

 

[Accumulator]

.. now I look at every bottle every time I pick it up.

Hey, that`s a good lesson!

To render things more Accumulator-proof, I have my various spray bottles/buckets/brushes/whatever differentiated in ways that`re obvious to me. Not sure if those diffs would register to anybody else, but that`s OK.

 

[Accumulator]

SWETM- Heh heh, another reason for me to dislike that Super Wash! At least no harm done

Oh, and [INSERT my usual remarks about how my wife and I loved that vintage of S4/S6. She`d still be driving hers had that [individual] not rear-ended it in a big way.]