can someone help me plz!!

[zehcnaskcin08]

ok so i want to wet sand my car. but i cant find out where to get the foam pads or what chemicals to use so if someone could plz help me i would appreciate it

[Murr1525]

Re: can someone help me plz!!

Why do you want to?

What are you working on?

Whats the goal?

[Andy M.]

Re: can someone help me plz!!

Since this is your first post on MOL, Welcome.

As Murr said, what are your goals, what are you working on? More importantly how much wet sanding experience do you have? Do you have a rotary buffer and do you know how to properly use it to remove your wet sanding marks? Can you post some pictures of what you are working on so we can get a better idea of which direction to lead you in?

Andy M.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: can someone help me plz!!

You need to find a PBE store in your hometown...

Hang on...

[Mike Phillips]

Re: can someone help me plz!!

On the homepage of this forum if you look in the center column you'll see this,

Have Questions? Looking for Answers?
So much good, practical and helpful information in the "Information Station" like these two forum groups and the List 'O Links thread.
Hot Topics
How To Articles
List 'O Links 2.0


I point this out because in the above links you'll find a ton of information. For example if I click on the "How To Articles" link I find this thread,

How to locate Meguiar's Professional and Detailer products in your hometown

There you go!

[Mike Phillips]

Re: can someone help me plz!!

For the future on any forum...

How to write a great subject for your message!

Including words that have to do with what you seek information out helps attract people with good answers.



As for sanding and buffing your car, first question...

Have you ever done this before?
Is this a new paint job? Or is this factory paint?
Do you own a rotary buffer?


In the last few years there's been so much bad information on other detailing discussion forums that I've seen a lot of people come to this forum to learn how to wet-sand and buff their car's paint and the first thing we have to do is set the record straight.

If you've never sanded and buffed an ENTIRE car before then it's usually not a good idea to learn on something that's important to you.

It's usually a bad idea to try to sand down and buff-out a factory baked-on paint finish. What you don't ever read on other forums is that about 95% of all wet-sanding is done on freshly painted cars painted at local body shops. The reason for this is the paint is thicker and soft enough to buff sanding marks out of. (It's always easy to sand paint, that's putting sanding marks in the paint, the tricky part is getting the sanding marks out of the paint)

On other forums you'll have people posting under nicknames telling you that you can use a DA Polisher to remove ALL the sanding marks out of a car you've completely sanded down and while this may be possible for the most talented detailer in the world it's a really bad idea and will take you about a decade unless you're working on single stage, black lacquer.

You must use a rotary buffer.

Hope that helps...