Ultimate Polish

[gypsy]

Re: Ultimate Polish

Thanks Davey

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Ultimate Polish

Mike
Which is a better finishing polish? M205 UP or white wax? M205
Which one would be a better jeweling polish?

Honestly, I'd rather not hear the term "jeweling" again as long as I live. Here's the problem with the whole concept: Prolonged, light duty polishing of the paint can actually cause the quality of the finish to decline rather than improve. The softer the paint, the greater the risk of this happening. Why? Residue management. If your process of slowly and continually buffing the paint is removing any paint at all (and it does, we all know that) then that paint residue is getting mixed in with the polish on the pad and giving an uncontrolled, non uniform abrasive to the mix. Further, if you're using a diminishing abrasive product as a finishing polish it must be worked completely to the point that the abrasives have fully broken down (diminished). But if you're using a non-diminishing abrasive finishing polish you don't want to polish for very long at all as this sort of polish will more quickly remove that fine bit of paint. Now, regardless which type of abrasive is in your polish, which pad do you use? Most will tell you the softest pad you have, or the one with the highest PPI spec. But even that is not always the case. Heck, the PPI spec all by itself is actually horribly misleading and seriously misunderstood on detailing forums. We can give you a specific pad with an 80PPI spec that will out finish another specific pad with a 100PPI spec, because all the other specs that comprise that pad conspire against it. But because it has a higher PPI spec, many will think it's a great finishing pad. We've actually seen situations on very soft paint where the best finish is actually achieved with a foam cutting pad (our new thin foam cutting disc can be a total rock star in this scenario!!) with just a small amount of M205 and a lot of water. Again, it's all about residue management. We've even done this at a Thursday Night Open Garage in front of a group and it was pretty amazing to see. So the term "jeweling" actually encompasses a variety of potential processes rather than just describing a "finishing polish" scenario whereby you maximize gloss and clarity of the paint. And how you accomplish that task depends entirely on the paint; how it responds to input, how soft or hard it is, and which pad it prefers.

[faridhasni]

Hi

Can i use ultimate wash and wax prior to ultimate polish?

[ffboy]

Re: Ultimate Polish

Hi

Can i use ultimate wash and wax prior to ultimate polish?

Ultimate wash and wax lays down a small amount of wax which is meant to boost wax protection in between real waxing. Using Ultimate Polish after would remove the wax layer left by Ultimate Wash and Wax.

[davey g-force]

Re: Ultimate Polish

... but you can still use it if you want. It won't hurt anything.