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I finally recieved my backing plate to my g100, and was off to the races. My jeep's paint is 6 years old, but has been kept up with pretty well, but never detailed, so I'm removing 6 years of swirls, but they are not that bad, it was almost never washed by hand, but by touchless and powerwashers.
Anyway, I started with #80, I made an X on my 8006 bonnet about 8 cm x 8cm, QD's the paint (it had been washed the day prior), and started. I was sucessful in removing some swirls, but some small swirls still remained. I was using a little more pressure that the weight of the machine, if that makes any sence. I was a little hesistant about using more pressure, and a faster speed because I wanted to be as minimally invasive as possible. I then tried using my DA on speed 4, with a little more pressure, still using #80, and still not much improvement.
So waited until today and then stepped up to #83. I'm only using a little more pressure than the machine gives on setting 4, and I get a somewhat better cut, but its not removing the small swirl-scratches. I'm taking about 3 seconds to move two feet, if that makes any sense about my speed, and I'm going in a checkerboard patten. I'm buffing until I go from a murky buff to a light haze.
I'm absouletly perplexed as to what I need to do next. I dont see the need to compound my finish, as it was not too swirled to begin with, I've compared my finish to some that are displayed in Extreme Makeovers, and its nothing like the swirls I see there.
I'm thinking my paint is extremly hard. I've removed about 50% of the swirls, but some really small, scratches remain, I cannot feel them with my finger tips, but I can see them under Xenon light. Unforutnley I am not able to use my digital camera at the moment, the batteries always die at the worst times.
I'm wondering do I need to be using more pressure? Should I be using more product? My hood has never been re-painted or had any work ever done to it, what should be my next step?
Anyway, I started with #80, I made an X on my 8006 bonnet about 8 cm x 8cm, QD's the paint (it had been washed the day prior), and started. I was sucessful in removing some swirls, but some small swirls still remained. I was using a little more pressure that the weight of the machine, if that makes any sence. I was a little hesistant about using more pressure, and a faster speed because I wanted to be as minimally invasive as possible. I then tried using my DA on speed 4, with a little more pressure, still using #80, and still not much improvement.
So waited until today and then stepped up to #83. I'm only using a little more pressure than the machine gives on setting 4, and I get a somewhat better cut, but its not removing the small swirl-scratches. I'm taking about 3 seconds to move two feet, if that makes any sense about my speed, and I'm going in a checkerboard patten. I'm buffing until I go from a murky buff to a light haze.
I'm absouletly perplexed as to what I need to do next. I dont see the need to compound my finish, as it was not too swirled to begin with, I've compared my finish to some that are displayed in Extreme Makeovers, and its nothing like the swirls I see there.
I'm thinking my paint is extremly hard. I've removed about 50% of the swirls, but some really small, scratches remain, I cannot feel them with my finger tips, but I can see them under Xenon light. Unforutnley I am not able to use my digital camera at the moment, the batteries always die at the worst times.
I'm wondering do I need to be using more pressure? Should I be using more product? My hood has never been re-painted or had any work ever done to it, what should be my next step?
but tomorrow ill turn it to 5 (for the first time) to apply colourX 
hope nothing goes wrong!
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