Today I tried to address some horrible scratches on black Supra. They were on the driver side all going in same direction resembling kind of swirls one would get from either a rotating wash or brush with wire edges exposed.
I have started by trying to use totary (Metabo PE12-175) at 1500rpm, Danase 5" heavy polishing (green) pad and some SIP 3.01. That didn't do anything. Then I raised that to SIP 3.01 with Meguiar's 6" cutting pad (W7006) and LC 6.5" CCS cutting pad (yellow) from CMA. Still nothing. Then I tried Power Gloss with same pads. Still next to nothing. Then I tried M84 with same pads. Some improvement but scratches still mainly intact. I was reaching a point where I was thinking I will have to live with them.
At that point in time I started thinking is there anything else left to try. I had some HiTec samples with me but decided to leave it for later. I had in front of me Cyclo 4" yellow scrubbing pads (I forgot my Cyclo wool pads at home) but that thing looked vicious. Still I was seriously tempted by them. However, I couldn't bring myself to do it. At that point in time I, for some reason, reached for Cyclo's yellow cutting pads and slapped them on my Cyclo even though everybody keeps saying rotary is stronger, so if you can't take them out with rotary you shouldn't be able to take it out with Cyclo.
Still I put some M84 on them and went to town with it and guess what? That thing was knocking down those scratches like nothing and after third pass majority of them was gone!
Now explain this to me, how is that possible? I thought it shouldn't have been. Yet it happened.
Unless my Metabo was not working at full strength (it didn't occur to me to try same pads and chemicals with different rotary) how Cyclo could have ended up more efficient?
I have started by trying to use totary (Metabo PE12-175) at 1500rpm, Danase 5" heavy polishing (green) pad and some SIP 3.01. That didn't do anything. Then I raised that to SIP 3.01 with Meguiar's 6" cutting pad (W7006) and LC 6.5" CCS cutting pad (yellow) from CMA. Still nothing. Then I tried Power Gloss with same pads. Still next to nothing. Then I tried M84 with same pads. Some improvement but scratches still mainly intact. I was reaching a point where I was thinking I will have to live with them.
At that point in time I started thinking is there anything else left to try. I had some HiTec samples with me but decided to leave it for later. I had in front of me Cyclo 4" yellow scrubbing pads (I forgot my Cyclo wool pads at home) but that thing looked vicious. Still I was seriously tempted by them. However, I couldn't bring myself to do it. At that point in time I, for some reason, reached for Cyclo's yellow cutting pads and slapped them on my Cyclo even though everybody keeps saying rotary is stronger, so if you can't take them out with rotary you shouldn't be able to take it out with Cyclo.
Still I put some M84 on them and went to town with it and guess what? That thing was knocking down those scratches like nothing and after third pass majority of them was gone!
Now explain this to me, how is that possible? I thought it shouldn't have been. Yet it happened.
Unless my Metabo was not working at full strength (it didn't occur to me to try same pads and chemicals with different rotary) how Cyclo could have ended up more efficient?
