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OK, one more time! Have patience with a newcomer.
Before finding Meguiar's products and website I had no idea the common man with some effort, knowledge, and the right products could make a car look so good. So, I buy my new MX-5 in September, wash it the day I get it home the way I always wash the car (at the local coin-op, drying it with an old towel), then discover all of my car paint sins a few days later when I stumbled across the Meguiar's website.
So now I have a few light swirl marks on the car that can only be seen in bright sun or under very bright lights (like at the gas station), nothing serious as in some of the photos I've seen on this site, but of course I want to get rid of them and have the most beautiful, shiny finish possible. I bought a DA and several Meguiar's consumer line products (Ultimate Compound, Scratch-X, Swirl-X, Deep Crystal Polish, NXT Generation Wax) but it's been way too cold to do any detailing. So most of my time that would have been spent on actually working on the new car's finish has been spent researching detailing topics and products on the Internet. Before the cold weather and my purchase of the DA I did try Swirl-X by hand on the new car, and it worked just "OK" but frankly, I think it was because I applied by hand it as though I was applying wax--without much muscle or time behind it.
After buying the DA I was able to work on the trunk lid of my daily driver (which has a lot of swirls and marring) with the DA, an orange Lake Country pad, and Scratch-X, with very satisfactory and surprising results, but again, my practice on the daily driver has given way to sitting in front of the fire trying to stay warm.
The question is, what approach do I take with my new car and getting rid of the few, light swirls? I'm thinking of using the DA with a Lake Country white pad (not much cutting power, I think) with Swirl-X. But then I get worried thinking that that may even be too much and so I should perhaps use only the Deep Crystal Polish with a less agressive pad (still using the DA), followed up by the NXT Generation Wax.
The bottom line: is Deep Crystal Polish and a DA effective on light swirls or should I go with something more aggresive?
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Before finding Meguiar's products and website I had no idea the common man with some effort, knowledge, and the right products could make a car look so good. So, I buy my new MX-5 in September, wash it the day I get it home the way I always wash the car (at the local coin-op, drying it with an old towel), then discover all of my car paint sins a few days later when I stumbled across the Meguiar's website.
So now I have a few light swirl marks on the car that can only be seen in bright sun or under very bright lights (like at the gas station), nothing serious as in some of the photos I've seen on this site, but of course I want to get rid of them and have the most beautiful, shiny finish possible. I bought a DA and several Meguiar's consumer line products (Ultimate Compound, Scratch-X, Swirl-X, Deep Crystal Polish, NXT Generation Wax) but it's been way too cold to do any detailing. So most of my time that would have been spent on actually working on the new car's finish has been spent researching detailing topics and products on the Internet. Before the cold weather and my purchase of the DA I did try Swirl-X by hand on the new car, and it worked just "OK" but frankly, I think it was because I applied by hand it as though I was applying wax--without much muscle or time behind it.
After buying the DA I was able to work on the trunk lid of my daily driver (which has a lot of swirls and marring) with the DA, an orange Lake Country pad, and Scratch-X, with very satisfactory and surprising results, but again, my practice on the daily driver has given way to sitting in front of the fire trying to stay warm.
The question is, what approach do I take with my new car and getting rid of the few, light swirls? I'm thinking of using the DA with a Lake Country white pad (not much cutting power, I think) with Swirl-X. But then I get worried thinking that that may even be too much and so I should perhaps use only the Deep Crystal Polish with a less agressive pad (still using the DA), followed up by the NXT Generation Wax.
The bottom line: is Deep Crystal Polish and a DA effective on light swirls or should I go with something more aggresive?
Any suggestions will be welcome.
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