PC'ing What is it?

[Marcus---]

Ive been on here for a while now and always see people saying ive Pc'd my car etc and i still dont know what it actually means/stands for!?

I know it involves an electric polisher thing that takes out swirls? and taping everything up but apart from that i have no clue.

Could someone please explain..

Thanks

 

[Brand86]

PC = Porter Cable random-orbital polisher. New and similar products is the Megs G220 polisher, but some people still call it "PCing" for some reason...like when you are going to vacuum your carpet you say you are Hoovering I guess...

 

[Ali]

A pain in the ass. lol

 

[SBV116]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=288945

Have a look in there, as ali said it is a bit shall we say boring!.......But it does give cracking results!!!

 

[Ali]

sac doing it as a day job, i do mine once a yr, takes near on 20hrs and looks spot on for the yr! I've got to do mine next weekend, luckily half the car is resprayed! Woop woop!

 

[Brand86]

Get some photos up Scottish...


...Some of your car would be nice too

 

[Ali]

Not yet! It's doorless, bumperless and bonnetless at the mo! Looks a state! COme FCS it will look good tho! You going?

 

[Paul.]

Not yet! It's doorless, bumperless and bonnetless at the mo! Looks a state! COme FCS it will look good tho! You going?

whats happend to it?????????

 

[Ali]

Getting resprayed for FCS.

 

[SBV116]

sac doing it as a day job, i do mine once a yr, takes near on 20hrs and looks spot on for the yr! I've got to do mine next weekend, luckily half the car is resprayed! Woop woop!

It is a bit time consuming aint it?! the ones we do for friends & family we try and turn around in a day! thats 2 of us both with pc's, i reckon you could spend forever though!!!

 

[BioHzrd]

Not yet! It's doorless, bumperless and bonnetless at the mo! Looks a state! COme FCS it will look good tho! You going?

What bout all the stone chips on the way down lol ?

 

[Ali]

Not yet! It's doorless, bumperless and bonnetless at the mo! Looks a state! COme FCS it will look good tho! You going?

What bout all the stone chips on the way down lol ?

Meh! 60mph all the way done job done.

 

[Gaz_]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=288945

Have a look in there, as ali said it is a bit shall we say boring!.......But it does give cracking results!!!

That was a blast from the past lol. The BG looks better than i remember lol!!!! Hmmmmm!!

 

[Marcus---]

That is ridiculously clean!

What does it require doing then? do you polish it using normal car polish then go over with the machine to take swirls out of the paint? any demos of swirls vs no swirls?

 

[Jungle_Jim]

here you go mate have a look at this thread of when my bro PC'ed his car,
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=267499
it removes all the swirls, you uses different cutting compounds and pads. getting less and less abrassive as you go and then final polish to make it ultra shiney

 

[YorkshireDaz]

I thought it stood for Paint Correction...:S lol

 

[Michael172]

A pain in the ass. lol

your telling me. 12- 8 ive just spent on my car today.

 

[kyle_sxi]

pc= porter cable are used for paint correction i have a porter cable but im after a rotary next like a mikita due to the time taken can be halfed with the rotary using the porter cable is bloody hard work lol

 

[Michael172]

buy a rotary.

Lots of effort needed with a DA.

 

[Gaz_]

..... true, but you can damage paint in the wrong hands, v quickly!!!

 

[jay s]

That is ridiculously clean!

What does it require doing then? do you polish it using normal car polish then go over with the machine to take swirls out of the paint? any demos of swirls vs no swirls?

these were from when i did a friends old bmw few weeks back, this was my 4th time using the pc ( meg g220 ) so still learning, as said tho it is a really boring task but so worth the effort

before:

after: