I need a pad/speed help

[Xracer110]

I'm having trouble remembering what pads and speeds to use for general cutting and polishing and waxing. Every time i do my cars I come and search the web, what I'm looking for is a printable or buy able poster that I can frame in the garage and refer to quickly! Does this exist? What tips do you have for remembering all this info? I use a porter cable with meg products maybe someone can suggest pad with speed and product combos and I ll make my own poster.

[Jarhead0754]

U will have to make ur own cuz there is no set standard as the product and pads used vary from car up car. However, if ur using the soft buff pads then yellow pad is for cutting and polishing. And the black is for polishing and waxing. There is a sticky on this in the da section. Speed all depends what's. being accomplished. Cutting is a 4-5 and polishing is from 3-5 depending on the polish, and waxing is a 2-3.

[Tim909]

Here's a general starting point for your test spot. For defect removal M105, on megs yellow foam polishing pad, at speed 5, with a slow-medium arm speed, using moderate downward pressure and 4-5 passes.
For polishing M205, on megs black finishing pad, speed 3, slow-medium arm speed, light downward pressure 3-4 passes.

[Xracer110]

Re: I need a pad/speed help

Here's what came in my kit, blue,white,orange,black and red pads, and I have the porter cable da. The only products I currently use are Meg's clay kit, Meg's swirl x, Meg's 205,Meg's wax 26. My paint is in great shape so I only spot with the swirl x but I need to do it faster to cut with my orange. Pad? Then 205 slow with blue? Followed with wax 26 slow on black? Is this correct? Also be specific on what I may need to do more or if I need different materials. I don't understand when people just say sealers etc. please be specific so I can improve my steps, thank you

[The Guz]

Re: I need a pad/speed help

U will have to make ur own cuz there is no set standard as the product and pads used vary from car up car. Speed all depends what's. being accomplished. Cutting is a 4-5 and polishing is from 3-5 depending on the polish, and waxing is a 2-3.

This is accurate with one caveat. Waxing at speeds 3-4 is where I use a DA.


Do you have a link to the package you bought?

First of all M205 and swirlx are closely related products. With M205 being a finishing polish and swirlx being a cleaner/polish. You can see here how close they really are. If you need something more aggressive for those deeper defects than I would pick up some Ultimate Compound. With M205 and UC you won't need swirlx. That gets me to my next point.

http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums...t-surprise-you!

M205 is such a versatile product that it can do amazing things with various pad combinations. I'm going to make an assumption that these are lake country pads. This is why the info for your package would be of much help.

For my recommendation I would use the white pad with M205 at speed 5 as a test spot. If it does a good job then proceed to use it all around the car. Then follow up with M26 on a black, red or blue pad. Then you are done. If the paint is in good condition as you say this will be all you need to do.

If you need something more aggressive then this is where I would recommend ultimate compound over siwrlx and use that with an orange pad. Then M205 (white) and M26(black, red or blue).

You could also try M205 on an orange pad at speed 5. It can offer some good correction.

Sealers means a sealant/synthetic wax.

[Xracer110]

Re: I need a pad/speed help

I bought my kit from autogeek, I think it was there starter kit but I think they gave a bonus red pads if I remember correctly. Anyway that's the kit I just don't remember how I got red pads also

[drumdan]

I came across a thread on Autogeek on this topic. Mike Phillips gave a reply. Here are his recommendations.

Compounding/Correction - 6
Polishing - 5 or 6
Waxing - 4

Now, this is for the Porter Cable. Other machines probably differ.

Pads.

Orange - 105
White - 205
Black - wax

That is a very general starting point.

For instance I did some light swirl clean up today with Ultimate Polish (205 derivative) on a blue Lake Country CCS pad, and it worked great. Normally I wax with the blue, polish with the green and compound with the pink or yellow.

[Eldorado2k]

I did a little work earlier today with M205 on a 5.5" White LC flat foam pad. Speed 5. Here's my 50/50 shot.



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Then I took that same pad & 205 to this oxidized headlight..



Worked well.

[drumdan]

That turned out great!

[BLK-SILVERADO-CHEVY]

That's a big difference on that Toyota looks like it's about to roll out the dealer .