Got my self a megs g220

[Jamesstone]

Right so the g220 arrived friday ( thanks again matt for top notch service & rapid deliverey from i4detail.co.uk )


So now the time has come to de-swirl my parents black lexus rx300, up till a couple of months ago it looked great, washed with 2 bucket, grit gaurd, 2 wash mitts etc & for the year of ownership it looked great.. until.. it got a service wash at lexus ... basically its come back covered in swirls like you couldn't belive :dead: , i cant belive you could do so much damage in one wash but worst of all they didn't even do the whole car, you could see patches they missed

So told the parents the only solution & here i am, now i've had a few reads but cant find any guides that focus on the g220 & the pads & polishes so just need abit of advice, basically i got the megs package from i4detailing which included the 3 diffrent types of megs pads & the 80 polish glaze & the 83 polish compound, so what do you guys reckon i should start with pad, polish speed wise? or may have a play on my 1.2 first, may be a little cheaper than the lexus to fix

Thanks,
James

 

[Michael172]

Megs 83 if its bad first, followed by 80.

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=63859


have a read through that. Will help you loads and answer a lot of your questions.

 

[Rich]

I would not worry to much about finding a G220 specific guide, any UDM or Porter Cable guide will tell you the info you need.

 

[Rich-D]

My G220 arrived on Friday and I had a quick session on the wifes 106 GTi to try it out...

As you can see, it was swirled to death originally and the G220 got them out

Not done the whole car yet as I didn't have time, but will be doing it soon and it should look amazing, just in time for it to be sold

 

[Rich-D]

I would not worry to much about finding a G220 specific guide, any UDM or Porter Cable guide will tell you the info you need.

just read the DA Polishing guide by DaveKG on detailingworld

 

[Rich]

My G220 arrived on Friday and I had a quick session on the wifes 106 GTi to try it out...

As you can see, it was swirled to death originally and the G220 got them out

Not done the whole car yet as I didn't have time, but will be doing it soon and it should look amazing, just in time for it to be sold

What combo did you use ? I have a swirly Maritius Blue 106 GTi to collect this week and try sort for Combe on Saturday!

If all goes to plan I will be collecting on Thursday night and have Friday to machine it!!! eeek !

What age and mileage is your wifes ?

 

[Jamesstone]

Cheers guys, will have a good read up & hope for good weather this weekend!

rich-d what pad/polish combination did you use? thats the sorta swirling the lexus has got

 

[planetx]

i Had a wee look on youtube....just sift through the crap vids, there are some good ones out there.

 

[Rich-D]

What combo did you use ? I have a swirly Maritius Blue 106 GTi to collect this week and try sort for Combe on Saturday!

If all goes to plan I will be collecting on Thursday night and have Friday to machine it!!! eeek !

What age and mileage is your wifes ?

that pic shows it after a hit with Poorboy's SSR2.5 and a Sonus SFX-1 (yellow) pad

I then followed up with Autoglym SRP on a white pad, which didn't remove any more defects but brought it up to a superb deep shine, ready for wax over the top, which I'll do by hand

it's a 1999 car with 79k miles, but it's not been looked after well in the cleaning department, we've had it 3.5 years now and I never really bothered with it, but we're selling it so it's getting sorted

 

[Rich-D]

rich-d what pad/polish combination did you use? thats the sorta swirling the lexus has got

I use the Sonus SFX pads, in both 4" & 6" sizes, with the Poorboy's SSR compounds and Autoglym SRP, finishing off with Collinite 476S wax by hand

see my previous post for pad/polish combos

 

[Rich]

Nice one Rich. I am planning Menzerna Intensive Polish and Megs #80 on mine on Friday so hopefully it should do the trick.

It is a shame as it has a great gloss but is swirly as hell.

 

[JR]

Nice one Rich. I am planning Menzerna Intensive Polish and Megs #80 on mine on Friday so hopefully it should do the trick.

It is a shame as it has a great gloss but is swirly as hell.

Rich

I used Menz Ip and SSR 1 on the china blue one i sold last year.

Came up a treat.

That was a 98 plate with 78k on it.

 

[Rich]

I need the quickest combo I can get away with on what may be a day to get a whole car show ready, don't want to have to park a Clio on the PSOOC stand for the third year running.

 

[Anonymous]

IP will be fine Rich, I did one last week and it came up a treat.

 

[Rich]

Nice one - normally I would not be to bothered but my normal show prep takes a day without machine polishing so I have no time to piss about !