Please Help me Help someone...

[tlpegg]

So I am what you call a newbie and I have been ever more interested in detailing as a hobbie since looking over some threads. Well my hobbie has caught the attention of my neighbor as he came over to ask some advice about his later model cooper mini. as you can see in the following pictures it needs some work, i was looking at purchasing PC/G100 and I thought that this might be a good learning opportunity. I was wondering aside from the five steps can any body suggest the right kind of polish and cleaner, and explain the difference between the #80 and #83 compaired to the #1 and #2.

Also his crome bumper has some pitting issue's and I did not know what to tell him to get rid of it. I suggested mothers crome cleaner, but it did not remove the pits, is there something out there that will break the pits down?

Thanks in advance

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[the other pc]

Here’ya go on the pix:





Oh man, right hand drive, Union Jack, Minilite wheels, that’s a very classic classic Mini indeed. I love it! Great choice for a detailing project.

#1 Medium Cut Cleaner is for rotary use only. The old version of #2 Fine Cut Cleaner was also for rotary only so read the label closely if you pick up a bottle to use with the G100. #80 and #83 are excellent choices. Both are cleaner/polishes and, depending on the paint and the severity of defects, effective on swirls and scratches. The new formula #2 is also an excellent cleaner and works well with the G100. It’s fairly similar to #83 in cutting ability.

You can’t “remove” pits in chrome because there’s nothing there to remove, they’re holes. The best you can do is polish up the surrounding area to make the overall look better. Getting rid of them requires re-plating.

You don’t actually “remove” swirls and scratches from paint either, you cut away everything around them to flatten the surface. If they’re too deep you can’t but swirls and some scratches are shallow enough to polish out with minimal impact on overall paint thickness. Pits in chrome tend to be very deep, all the way through the top plating layer.


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[tlpegg]

Thanks for the advice, It was easy being a neub to assume that the #1 and #2 were okay for an ROB so I appreciate the info I will post the afters in a couple weeks!

[Mike Phillips]

for most people, for most cars, you can pick up at the M80 step in this how-to article and work-out a majority of the defects and restore show car shine.

Using the G-100 to remove swirls with the Professional Line

As to the pits in the chrome, once you have pitting the only honest fix is to re-chrome the components. Chrome is a very hard thin layer and it doesn not lend itself to being abraded with the end-result goal of having the surface look good. The below article touches on this topic.

What it Means to Remove a Scratch