spent a good 15 hours on the paint of the golf, I started off using the PC with 3.02 on a cut pad, this corrected about 20% of the swirls after two passes, so dropped to power gloss, again not having much luck..
I came to the conclusion that the pc just does not have the power or the ability to successfully cut hard VAG paints, my car isn’t heavily swirled, just lots of light washing marks but it would just not budge!
So I took advantage of Matts i4detailing offer for the Kestrel Rotary with free LC backing plate, two days later I attack the car again..WOW what a difference!
Process
I managed to remove all the swirls in two passes of 3.02 on a menz polishing pad,
I tided the marring and light swirls with some PO106FF on a polishing pad worked this all the way to a finish
gave it a wipe down with IPA 50:50 with distilled water to remove the oils from the menz.
Then added two coats of EGP for some extra shine
I washed all the dusting with a rinse from the hose, sprayed last touch on the body before drying using my CYC huge drying towel
then gave the car 3 costs of Swizzvax BEST OF SHOW - this really changed the look of the car, the paint has depth, gloss and brings out the metallic super well!
Cleaned the engine with APC
Wiped the interior down ready for the wet vac tomorrow!
The wheels and front bumper wern't touched as the front bumper is being re-sprayed and the wheels are getting refurbed too!
No during pics sorry, only afters, pretty impressed with the reflection and shine, its a funny colour to get that kind of depth from...so im more than happy!
beading
I came to the conclusion that the pc just does not have the power or the ability to successfully cut hard VAG paints, my car isn’t heavily swirled, just lots of light washing marks but it would just not budge!
So I took advantage of Matts i4detailing offer for the Kestrel Rotary with free LC backing plate, two days later I attack the car again..WOW what a difference!
Process
I managed to remove all the swirls in two passes of 3.02 on a menz polishing pad,
I tided the marring and light swirls with some PO106FF on a polishing pad worked this all the way to a finish
gave it a wipe down with IPA 50:50 with distilled water to remove the oils from the menz.
Then added two coats of EGP for some extra shine
I washed all the dusting with a rinse from the hose, sprayed last touch on the body before drying using my CYC huge drying towel
then gave the car 3 costs of Swizzvax BEST OF SHOW - this really changed the look of the car, the paint has depth, gloss and brings out the metallic super well!
Cleaned the engine with APC
Wiped the interior down ready for the wet vac tomorrow!
The wheels and front bumper wern't touched as the front bumper is being re-sprayed and the wheels are getting refurbed too!
No during pics sorry, only afters, pretty impressed with the reflection and shine, its a funny colour to get that kind of depth from...so im more than happy!
beading
