Some of you may have remembered me mentioning getting lazy on Monday and taking my car to a tunnel car wash-and of course, when drying it, they left some marring in the paint. I normally don't do that but after two days of mud rain and washing my car the day before, I took a chance. Never again.
On the bright side, the marring, along with some minor halo swirls and some marring I caused by cleaning a ton of bugs off the front end of my car after a road trip, it seemed like a good test for Optimum's new Hyper Compound. I had picked up a quart from our local Dallas area Optimum distributor.
My understanding is the Hyper Compound is quite aggressive, so instead of using a burgandy Meguiars cutting pad, I decided to use the green lite cut Propel pad instead. My car seems to have pretty soft paint so I didn't want to go overboard.
I started off with the speed on 5, working across each section in overlapping strokes, moving the PC about 3-4 inches per second under moderate pressure. I then bumped the speed to 6, again using overlapping strokes for 3 passes moving the PC about an inch per second for the first two passes and 2 inches per second for the final pass. I wiped off the excess and noticed while I had lost the depth of the layer of CMW and 2 of OCW, the paint looked pretty clear and reflective. In a couple areas, I had some minimal marring where I must not have worked it in long enough, otherwise, even on my black paint under hazy late afternoon sun, the paint looked pretty clear for using a compound. I tried to focus on areas the sun was hitting as it peaked through the haze and it appeared all the marring from the car wash clowns and from me removing the bugs was gone, plus I couldn't find any halo swirls anymore. I do have a couple areas that have some deep scratches that will never come out completely, but you have to get the angle exactly right to even see them.
I followed with Optimum Polish, again using a green Propel pad. I then took this picture with my camera phone:
I only had one shot left on my 35 mm camera and was hoping against hope I could finish my car completely before dark, take a pic and finish the roll. Didn't happen.
Anyway, I followed with JW's Prime and a blue Propel finishing pad and Carnauba Jett by hand. Too dark to take any pics at that point.
I took my car by the local coin-op since their lighting is excellent and looked over my whole car. No marring and no halo swirls that I could see. I'll take a quick pic in the morning and finish that roll and get pics up tomorrow (Monday night).
BTW, I also detailed an '04 Porsche 911 this morning. As you can see, at 10 am on a Sunday, I am not at my best. Didn't help that it was 80 Saturday afternoon and 40 this morning when I started. At least I had a garage to work in.
The 911 got Prime and Acrylic Jett, took a few pics plus one with my camera phone. Turned out pretty decent, I guess.
On the bright side, the marring, along with some minor halo swirls and some marring I caused by cleaning a ton of bugs off the front end of my car after a road trip, it seemed like a good test for Optimum's new Hyper Compound. I had picked up a quart from our local Dallas area Optimum distributor.
My understanding is the Hyper Compound is quite aggressive, so instead of using a burgandy Meguiars cutting pad, I decided to use the green lite cut Propel pad instead. My car seems to have pretty soft paint so I didn't want to go overboard.
I started off with the speed on 5, working across each section in overlapping strokes, moving the PC about 3-4 inches per second under moderate pressure. I then bumped the speed to 6, again using overlapping strokes for 3 passes moving the PC about an inch per second for the first two passes and 2 inches per second for the final pass. I wiped off the excess and noticed while I had lost the depth of the layer of CMW and 2 of OCW, the paint looked pretty clear and reflective. In a couple areas, I had some minimal marring where I must not have worked it in long enough, otherwise, even on my black paint under hazy late afternoon sun, the paint looked pretty clear for using a compound. I tried to focus on areas the sun was hitting as it peaked through the haze and it appeared all the marring from the car wash clowns and from me removing the bugs was gone, plus I couldn't find any halo swirls anymore. I do have a couple areas that have some deep scratches that will never come out completely, but you have to get the angle exactly right to even see them.
I followed with Optimum Polish, again using a green Propel pad. I then took this picture with my camera phone:
I only had one shot left on my 35 mm camera and was hoping against hope I could finish my car completely before dark, take a pic and finish the roll. Didn't happen.
Anyway, I followed with JW's Prime and a blue Propel finishing pad and Carnauba Jett by hand. Too dark to take any pics at that point.
I took my car by the local coin-op since their lighting is excellent and looked over my whole car. No marring and no halo swirls that I could see. I'll take a quick pic in the morning and finish that roll and get pics up tomorrow (Monday night).
BTW, I also detailed an '04 Porsche 911 this morning. As you can see, at 10 am on a Sunday, I am not at my best. Didn't help that it was 80 Saturday afternoon and 40 this morning when I started. At least I had a garage to work in.
The 911 got Prime and Acrylic Jett, took a few pics plus one with my camera phone. Turned out pretty decent, I guess.
