Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

[threatcon13]

I have a 06 g35 coupe, which is about 10 months old. About two weeks ago, I washed, clay'd, and waxed the car. I noticed there are some light swirl marks on the vertical surfaces...hard to see unless youre real close to the car. This weekend, I was planning on washing, using the deep crystal paint cleaner, and waxing. Would the deep crystal be adequate to remove the light swirls? Or do you recommend I use a polish after the deep crystal? Thanks in advance! I'm very new to this hobby, but I have fell in love with it!

[radiocontrolhead]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

Are you gogin to use DA?

either way, DC 1 is non abrasive and it will nto do anything as far as removing swirls. if the swirls are real light, u shoudl try #80 and see if that will remove those swirls, applied w/ a DA of course./

[Murr1525]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

Deep Crystal Polish is a pure polish, and wont remove any swirls.

For siwrls, you will want ScratchX.

Read this:

How To Remove Swirls By Hand

How to remove a defect by hand with ScratchX

[sneek]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

G35's have tricky paint! some people use #66 on G35's because it is so sensitive to scratches.

[Chex]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

....and what about M82(swirl free polish) or #9(swirl remover)?

could that get the job done with the light swirls?

I've used M82 w/a rotary and removed light swirls pretty good. what do you think?

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

....and what about M82(swirl free polish) or #9(swirl remover)?

could that get the job done with the light swirls?

I've used M82 w/a rotary and removed light swirls pretty good. what do you think?

Both M82 and M09 are for removing light or shallow swirls and best results come when applied using a rotary buffer.

[threatcon13]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

I'm not going to be using a DA, just doing it by hand. I just tried swirl removal on a tiny section of the car...using the deep crystal paint cleaner, and deep crystal polish. Swirls are gone now! Now its time to do the rest of the car. So should I wash, clay, polish, wax? Or wash, clay, deep crystal paint clean, polish, and wax? Thanks again!

[radiocontrolhead]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

I'm not going to be using a DA, just doing it by hand. I just tried swirl removal on a tiny section of the car...using the deep crystal paint cleaner, and deep crystal polish. Swirls are gone now! Now its time to do the rest of the car. So should I wash, clay, polish, wax? Or wash, clay, deep crystal paint clean, polish, and wax? Thanks again!

i dont exactly know what porperties are in those but what you may have doen was just filled them up. after a few weeks when the wax starts to remove, those swirls will reappear. to remove swirls means to remove paint as deep at your fine scratch(swirls). all u did was fill up those scratches.

[threatcon13]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

Doesn't polish remove wax in addition to a microscopic layer of clearcoat? I thought polishing was used to remove a layer of clearcoat hence eliminating any light surface scratches/swirls?

i dont exactly know what porperties are in those but what you may have doen was just filled them up. after a few weeks when the wax starts to remove, those swirls will reappear. to remove swirls means to remove paint as deep at your fine scratch(swirls). all u did was fill up those scratches.

[TH0001]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

DC2 Pure Polish is nonabbrasive and will not remove any paint. It is an oil based glaze that with darken and deepen the reflection of the paint and also help to mask swirls.

DC1 Paint Cleaner is a very mildly abrasive paint cleaner, which features very very faint abrasives. However, the paint of the G35 is famously soft, and the DC1 could very well have removed the swirls.

[pcfxer]

Re: Polishing necessary for light swirl removal?

DC1 does remove paint by hand and I know the newest edition is supposed to have diminishing abrasives. Though, it will only remove very fine scratches even when worked in really well.

If you insist on working by hand you can try working scratchX in an small 1'x1' area. After you've applied the product, remembering to work it until it's almost 100% clear, remove the residue with a clean towel. You will now test how your work actually removed the swirls. Using a 50/50 alcohol/water mix spray it onto the area and wipe away with, obviously, a different towel. This should remove any fillers and give you an idea of the work accomplished with one application of scratchX by hand.

Repeat those steps another four or five times and you should no longer see those swirls even with the removal of fillers. After that, you'd be able to use DC2, DC3 and NXT as your LSP.