Yellow pads

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Whether its a 6.5" or 7.5 VC pad can yellow pads be used on paint thats like 1 year old such as my truck's paint or should they only be used on paint thats like 3 years or older? I have a yellow 6.5" pad that I haven't used on my 1 year old paint and am afraid to use it with DACP on the truck because of fear that it might cut into the clear. So I used an orange pad with DACP to remove heavy swirls(thanks to the Ford dealer!).
 
Regardless of the age of the vehicle, you need to apply what is going to get the job done, if that means yellow (whatever brand, make, model) If its a light cutting pad, and you surface needs light cutting, then by all means use it !!
 
Yeah, you just have to use whatever's right for the job. And remember that "removing swirls" *is* "cutting into the clear". Any time you remove marring through abrasion you take off some clear, just the nature of the process.



But if the orange pad did the job then you didn't need the yellow, so :xyxthumbs for using the least aggressive measure that still got the job done.



The time to use the yellow is when the orange doesn't get the marring out. Note that the DACP/yellow combo will almost certainly leave micromarring that will require followup with a milder product/pad combo.
 
Accumulator said:
Note that the DACP/yellow combo will almost certainly leave micromarring that will require followup with a milder product/pad combo.
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Like following up with a white pad and Menzerna FP(what I have).
 
If its the CMA yellow pad i personally wouldnt use it. I used it w/ the meguiars 84 and it hazed the finish. IMHO that pads to coarse i dont even know what you'd use it for. But each pad has its purpose i guess.
 
6']['9 said:
If its the CMA yellow pad i personally wouldnt use it. I used it w/ the meguiars 84 and it hazed the finish. IMHO that pads to coarse i dont even know what you'd use it for.
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From CMA's description of their yellow pad: "Use this pad with caution. Compounding can dull the surface (called compounding haze) which will require additional finish polishing to remove."
 
Setec Astronomy said:
From CMA's description of their yellow pad: "Use this pad with caution. Compounding can dull the surface (called compounding haze) which will require additional finish polishing to remove."
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Thanks! ive never read that. :xyxthumbs
 
Once you haze the paint over, all you need to do is use a white pad with something like Menzerna's Final Polish II and it'll bring it back to a nice shine.



The rougher yellow pad will help remove oxidization and deeper scratches.
 
Jay, another thing to consider is that #84 is only suggested for rotary use. Megs recommends #83 as being the most aggressive to use with a PC, and even that can leave unrecoverable dulling with a too aggressive pad.



Lore, myself and some on this board (warned me *after* it happened to me) discovered that if you use #83 with a too aggressive pad, the finish dulls down and you can't bring it back. Even Mike Phillips cautions on this.



Avoid Megs maroon pad and some yellow pads. From my experience an orange pad is as aggressive as I'll go with #83.
 
Alfisti said:
Jay, another thing to consider is that #84 is only suggested for rotary use. Megs recommends #83 as being the most aggressive to use with a PC, and even that can leave unrecoverable dulling with a too aggressive pad.
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i used it w/ a rotory.
 
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