pad/compound help

[edgeydt50]

just wondering if somebody on here can give me a bit of advice.
I have the sonus sfx kit which came with my DA. I gave my car a quick try with the medium pad and medium cutting compound which has bought up the finish really well but there is still come light swirling. I know the nissan paint is soft so i didnt want to use a hard pad and hard compound. Would i be best off using a hard pad with a medium compound of a medium pad with a hard compound. I have heard some people have had great result using prime lime on a DA so would that be worth a try or just stick with the sonus and then finish with prime lime?

Cheers in advance,
Chris

 

[JD]

Might be purely down to time taken Chris, in all honesty. More likely that, than wrong cutting compound.

Try the same compound again, on the same pad and just work it in for longer.

Have you done this before?

 

[edgeydt50]

JD,
yeah i have done a few cars now but i have heard that the nissan paint was so soft i was being cautions, especially on my own car!

I have just washed and dried the car so im going to go tape it up and then ill give it a couple of passes with the original pad/compound combo.
Cheers for the advice though.

Chris

 

[JD]

Yeah, just try and stick with the least cut you can mate. Don't want to be taking off too many microns.

 

[RussZS]

The paint is soft, not thin, so you don't have to be toooo cautious with it, and it's a bit of a sweeping statement that 'all Jap cars' are soft, it's simply not always the case.

If you are experienced, and it's not correcting, then try the next pad up with the same compound and see how you get on. The issue with soft paint is that if the combo you use is too aggressive, it will create it's own marks, so often need refining further.

 

[JD]

I don't think the pad will really make that much difference Russ. I would be more inclined to suggest another pass with the same polish and pad combo and see how that comes out. If not, move upwards on the grit scale but by as smaller step as possible.