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Blackmirror

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I'm going to test DACP on half the hood on my black Harley truck. The hood has swirls and some minor scratches. I did a search already on DACP and learned that it causes hazing if not worked on long enough. How many minutes should I be working DACP until buffing it out? Do I have to use 50/50 all the time after DACP or only when the DACP doesn't want to buff out easily? Is it ok to use a charisma towel to remove DACP?



Here's my plan of attack:

Using PC 7424

Yellow pad and DACP

White pad and DACP(should that be optional?)

AIO by hand

SG by hand



What do you think of this plan? Please suggest a different plan if you want.
 
Yellow + DACP may or may not be necessary, depending on the severity of the swirls.



I had awesome luck with a white pad and no follow-up on ... eh, light to moderate swirls.
 
I would try using what you have in mind. If you have quality mfs I would chose them over the cotton towels. It's my habit to always wipe with alcohol mix after each polishing step but that's your option.
 
I would crank up even higher, when I used it, I waited for it to dust. What I didn't do is use it again with the white pad, I switched to an entirely different polish. If I were to do it all over again, I would use DACP with both the yellow and white pads. I believe towards the end of my polishing I had it up to 6 for a while.
 
You'll want to work the product dry, basically. When you buff DACP off, there should be only a trace of the actual polish, and you should never have a hard time getting it off the paint.
 
You guys are recommending cranking the PC speed up to 6. I noticed that when applying 1Z polishes with a PC speed of anything higher than 5 it started to cake up really bad on me, and also reduced the working time of the product drastically. Would this happen with DACP? I would assume that the only remedie for this would be to use more product?
 
Using DACP you will find that the it takes a lot of power and patience to break it down. As such 5-6 is a must in my opinion.
 
Where I am confused is to whether I should use DACP/white pad or SFP/yellow pad, and which one is more agressive. What do you guys think??



BTW, getting SFP/DACP to breakdown is no small chore for me.
 
Deep_Freeze said:
Where I am confused is to whether I should use DACP/white pad or SFP/yellow pad, and which one is more agressive. What do you guys think??



BTW, getting SFP/DACP to breakdown is no small chore for me.
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I usually use DACP with a yellow pad and step down to SFP with a white pad. DACP is more agressive.
 
Scottwax said:
Like the others said, work it until nearly dry and crank the PC up to 5 or 6.
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So when are you saying that we should crank up the PC to 5 or 6?? What speed do you like the whole time??



BTW, nice pic of you polishing the Z in your avator, Scott. :D
 
andriver said:
I usually use DACP with a yellow pad and step down to SFP with a white pad. DACP is more agressive.
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yeah, I know which is more agressive, but DACP/white pad and SFP/yellow pad can be quite similar, and could give a happy medium with the results that it would give. Just wondering if anyone had experience with using this combo.



Guess I am just lazy, and don't want to do 2 steps, DACP/yellow pad and SFP/white pad. Seems like using DACP/white pad or SFP/yellow pad would be a good 1 step solution. What do you guys think??
 
I tested the DACP for the first time yesterday on my girlfriend's corolla. This car was really neglected and never polished or waxed:eek: . I think it even had permanent stains on the paint that the DACP could not get out. It left the finish shiny but I can still see the permanent stains on the paint. I repeated the application of DACP on half the hood three times and the stains still remained. Should I have gone to the lambs wool and DACP to remove them?
 
~One man’s opinion / observations ~



#83 Dual Action Cleaner Polish, W-8006 pad, speed #5-6, work product until it becomes a fine dust



You can use the higher speed settings for the dual action polisher but remember that Meguiar’s foam pads and the backing plates are not really intended for use over the 5.0 setting, (and even this is pushing it). So use at your own risk, higher settings create a lot of heat between the backing plate and the foam pad and you may experience pad failure.



~Hope this helps~



Experience unshared; is knowledge wasted…/ Jon

justadumbarchitect *so I question everything*
 
Blackmirror said:
It left the finish shiny but I can still see the permanent stains on the paint. I repeated the application of DACP on half the hood three times and the stains still remained. Should I have gone to the lambs wool and DACP to remove them?
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I recently tried DACP and UP with a woolpad in effort to eliminate or drastically reduce some blemishes the other ( yellow LC, maroon Meg's) pads couldn't remove, still got same result, shiny paint but with blemishes. I think situations like that call for a rotary.
 
I got a chance to test the pc and DACP on the hood of my black Harley. I decided to go with the white pad first since the swirls were not that severe...just minor. So I had the pc to #5 and worked half the hood until it was a fine dust. Used IPA mix and wiped residues then buffed off real easy. Man i've never seen the paint shine on the hood like that! Followed up with AIO and then SG. Didn't take pics as I'd rather take pics with the whole truck done. Only thing I was not satisfied with was that I can still see very minor hairline scratches that I couldn't feel with my fingernail. Should I have started with the yellow pad first to get those scratches out? Above all, the shine came out very well!:bounce
 
I'd say go for the yellow pad on the really bad surfaces, and white pad on the not so bad surfaces. Regardless, you will need to go over the whole truck again with a less aggressive polish, like 1Z MP or something else along those lines to achieve the results you are looking for.
 
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