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I took the opportunity to try out the new thin foam pads today. This is the first time I have used them. I have an aftermarket hood on my car so the factory hood has been sitting in the garage for a couple years collecting dust. It made a good candidate to test the pads on. I used the 5" pads with a PC7424XP.
This is what the hood looked like. It had swirls all over it.
Here's a closer view.
First thing I did was do a rinseless wash with D114 and then clay. I don't know when or how long it's been since this thing was clayed. This is the kind of gunk I was pulling out on the clay bar. I used M34 and a clay magic clay bar. It picked up more surface contamination versus the fine grade nanoskin sponge.
There have been lots of questions regarding whether these pads fit the W67DA backing plate. Well I am happy to say that they do with no issues.
I used D300 with the DFC5 burgundy cutting disc and M205 on the DFP5 yellow polishing disc. Here is a 50/50 after using the cutting disc. I made 4 passes with D300.
Here's a final shot after following up with M205 on a yellow polishing disc. This hood had no gloss what so ever to it as seen in the first photo. I'll let the photo speak for itself.
My final thoughts on using these. I was impressed with them. I noticed that the combo with D300 finished LSP ready. Of course the hood is a light color so it's harder to see DA haze. But the correction was fantastic. Pretty close to the correction offered by the microfiber cutting discs. There are some deeper rids that the microfiber cutting disc could probably remove easily. But the thin foam cutting disc corrects very well. I was also using it with a PC7424XP and although it's not the most powerful of the DA's it sure did give great results. The polishing disc worked really well with M205. I do recommend that the pads are cleaned a little more often than a typical foam pad since these can load up quicker. It took me a little time to adjust to the thinner pad but it's not a big learning curve. I typically use Lake Country foam pads (flat pads and the thinner hydrotech pads) which work really well and are my favorite pads. The Meguiar's pads are right up there in terms of performance to the Lake Country pads. I do prefer a thinner pad to take advantage of the tools power. Overall these foam discs worked very well and should be considered by anyone when looking for pads.
This is what the hood looked like. It had swirls all over it.
Here's a closer view.
First thing I did was do a rinseless wash with D114 and then clay. I don't know when or how long it's been since this thing was clayed. This is the kind of gunk I was pulling out on the clay bar. I used M34 and a clay magic clay bar. It picked up more surface contamination versus the fine grade nanoskin sponge.
There have been lots of questions regarding whether these pads fit the W67DA backing plate. Well I am happy to say that they do with no issues.
I used D300 with the DFC5 burgundy cutting disc and M205 on the DFP5 yellow polishing disc. Here is a 50/50 after using the cutting disc. I made 4 passes with D300.
Here's a final shot after following up with M205 on a yellow polishing disc. This hood had no gloss what so ever to it as seen in the first photo. I'll let the photo speak for itself.
My final thoughts on using these. I was impressed with them. I noticed that the combo with D300 finished LSP ready. Of course the hood is a light color so it's harder to see DA haze. But the correction was fantastic. Pretty close to the correction offered by the microfiber cutting discs. There are some deeper rids that the microfiber cutting disc could probably remove easily. But the thin foam cutting disc corrects very well. I was also using it with a PC7424XP and although it's not the most powerful of the DA's it sure did give great results. The polishing disc worked really well with M205. I do recommend that the pads are cleaned a little more often than a typical foam pad since these can load up quicker. It took me a little time to adjust to the thinner pad but it's not a big learning curve. I typically use Lake Country foam pads (flat pads and the thinner hydrotech pads) which work really well and are my favorite pads. The Meguiar's pads are right up there in terms of performance to the Lake Country pads. I do prefer a thinner pad to take advantage of the tools power. Overall these foam discs worked very well and should be considered by anyone when looking for pads.
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