Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
I got one for Christmas and have used it with great success on my own car for applying wax and on a friends car to refresh the poor paint on his.
They are easy to use but a bit scary to start with. Make sure you mask up all plastic trim to protect it and stop polish slater on it.
Wash, clay and clean the car before you start, start on one panel and go in a grid type pattern, up and down across the panel then left and right across the panel if that makes sense, some good videos on youtube.
Cannot remeber what polish I use off hand as am at work, but use the Sonus pads and have found them very good, finished off with Autoglym wax and jet seal 109 and very impressed with the results, especially on friends car which was in a very poor state. In actual fact my lad did most of that and he had no issues with the polisher.MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
29th Aug 2015 9:09 am
tayaste
Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
Posts: 7633
Which brand of polisher Russell?
29th Aug 2015 10:00 am
Iceman08
Member Since: 22 Sep 2014
Location: Hereford
Posts: 2284
As others have said, spend some time reading on detailing world but try not to take everything too seriously, a lot of those people are doing it for paying customers! When I bought my R32 I got into it in a big way and spent over £1000 in 8 months buying equipment/products, I took everything to heart and tried to do it all by the book and the result was 3 days later I still hadn't finished a Golf!
It's not by any means a quick process but I over did everything!!
Basically you'll want to strip the car of any existing wax/sealants with an APC(all purpose cleaner) or fairy washing up liquid, remove any tar with a dedicated tar remover, clay bar it to remove bonded contaminants, then start your paint correction stages with your choice of DA, pads and polish. Shinning a light onto your car then looking into it will help show up the defects as in my first picture earlier.
Then Its on to protecting your paint work with whatever you choose, it could be wax or a sealant or sometimes both. Some glazes/polishes contain filling agents so they help to mask some of the defects for you, but in my opinion thats cutting corners! Personally I use Zaino sealants, they are my favourite and are extremely easy to use with great results.
If your old car doesn't have clear coat on the paint then you will need to check the products you buy are suitable for this. Also a PTG(paint thickness gauge) is a good idea so you know how much material your safe to take off, or that your not polishing a panel that hardly has any paint on!
Then theres your trim restorers, tyre glaze, glass cleaners and the likes but they are all down to your personal choice! Thats not the ins and outs of it but it gives you bit of an idea
29th Aug 2015 11:47 am
tayaste
Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
Posts: 7633
Great tips, thanks iceman
29th Aug 2015 12:02 pm
Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
tayaste wrote:
Which brand of polisher Russell?
I have the DAS6 from clean your cars with Sonus SFX pads with Menzerna polishes.
Some of the results
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MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
29th Aug 2015 12:25 pm
Discogaz
Member Since: 17 Mar 2014
Location: Bracknell
Posts: 1399
I tried one of the clay bar mits which is a bit like a washing glove but covered in a kind of rubber. keep it wet and wipe the whole car down and despite it just being thoroughly washed, you can feel the crap being wiped off.
Is a very good alternative to traditional clay barinmg.
29th Aug 2015 1:01 pm
Iceman08
Member Since: 22 Sep 2014
Location: Hereford
Posts: 2284
I've also got the clay mit and I'm impressed! If you go over an area with the clay bar after you do get more contaminants off but the mit gets 95% off in my opinion, and is so much faster!
29th Aug 2015 1:31 pm
tayaste
Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
Posts: 7633
Have you been to the cleanyourcar.co.uk website, I have found it very usedfull, plus Ive had great service from them.
I have a DAS6 polisher and I have decided to stick to the Maguires product range and Im using the two pack system, specific pads for compounds and polishes.
Im no expert , but Im starting to teach myself how to clean, buff etc using snowfoam, waffle cloths, buffing and sealants etc etc.
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