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Well I finally got around to compounding my GF's new car today. Compound a new car you ask!?! Well yes! It's a 2008 Subaru Impreza. We bought it 4 months ago with 11k miles....as the sun was going down...stupid! We owned the car for less than 12 hours when I had it in the garage to buff it out. I noticed lots of buffer induced swirls and halos. It also had the deepest wash brush marks I have ever seen. It also was COVERED in white overspray. It's a charcoal metallic so the tiny over spray spots where not easily noticed even in direct sunlight. I was time limited and knew that I had hours of work ahead of me to remove the over spray. So instead I just gave it a quick clay with blue mild to make the surface smooth and followed that with 83/rotary/7006 and 80/DA/8006. Topped it with some 21 and called it a day.
Fast forward to last week and I finally have time to remove the over spray. It took about 6 hours with red aggressive to remove all of it. Looking over the results of my last buff session on it I knew I was going to need something a lot stronger than 83 to get the job done. I did test spots with SOLO on various pads first and then moved on to 105. 105 at 1000rpms/7006pad did the trick in one pass. That followed with 80/8006/DA left a finish free of any swirls, halo's, or the earlier mentioned wash scratches.
Just for fun I did some test spots with 105 and a few different pads on my DA. Here is what I found:
DA/8006 pad/105/speed 5
This did a fair amount of defect removal and left a nice, yet slightly hazy finish that cleaned up with 80/8006/DA. Work time was similar to what I see with 83. This would be a great first step for somebody not quite comfortable with a rotary yet but still needs more cut than 83/8006/DA. I only tried it on this paint though, so YMMV and proceed with caution as this is not an approved method of use by Meguiar's.
DA/Cutting pad 2.0/105/Speed 5
This combo proved too aggressive for the DA. With moderate pressure the machine would bog so I had to use light pressure. The finish left was more hazy than with the polishing pad and less correction was done. I assume this is due to the light pressure dragging the abrasives over the paint rather than being worked into the paint and having a chance to cut. Feel free to correct me though as it's just a guess. Again, this was on one particular paint. It may work better on others and I wouldn't be scared to try it again. #80/8006/DA was NOT able to remove the haze in one pass. So I tried 83 on a 2.0 cutting pad at speed 5 and that did the trick. The wash scratches where however deeper than on the section that just had 105/8006/DA. So it wouldn't be worth the extra step IMO. Maybe a G110 with it's more powerful motor might do a better job with this combo? Maybe I should pony up and buy one to see!
DA/Cutting pad 2.0/83/DA
Not much to say here. The cutting pad worked great and left no haze. No where near the correction of 105 on an 8006 pad though. I'm sure this combo has it's place somewhere on some paint in some detail though! I won't hesitate to try it again in the future.
I know some pics would be nice but I didn't take any
sorry!
I will post up some pics of the full detail though in the coming days.
Questions? Comments?
Fast forward to last week and I finally have time to remove the over spray. It took about 6 hours with red aggressive to remove all of it. Looking over the results of my last buff session on it I knew I was going to need something a lot stronger than 83 to get the job done. I did test spots with SOLO on various pads first and then moved on to 105. 105 at 1000rpms/7006pad did the trick in one pass. That followed with 80/8006/DA left a finish free of any swirls, halo's, or the earlier mentioned wash scratches.
Just for fun I did some test spots with 105 and a few different pads on my DA. Here is what I found:
DA/8006 pad/105/speed 5
This did a fair amount of defect removal and left a nice, yet slightly hazy finish that cleaned up with 80/8006/DA. Work time was similar to what I see with 83. This would be a great first step for somebody not quite comfortable with a rotary yet but still needs more cut than 83/8006/DA. I only tried it on this paint though, so YMMV and proceed with caution as this is not an approved method of use by Meguiar's.
DA/Cutting pad 2.0/105/Speed 5
This combo proved too aggressive for the DA. With moderate pressure the machine would bog so I had to use light pressure. The finish left was more hazy than with the polishing pad and less correction was done. I assume this is due to the light pressure dragging the abrasives over the paint rather than being worked into the paint and having a chance to cut. Feel free to correct me though as it's just a guess. Again, this was on one particular paint. It may work better on others and I wouldn't be scared to try it again. #80/8006/DA was NOT able to remove the haze in one pass. So I tried 83 on a 2.0 cutting pad at speed 5 and that did the trick. The wash scratches where however deeper than on the section that just had 105/8006/DA. So it wouldn't be worth the extra step IMO. Maybe a G110 with it's more powerful motor might do a better job with this combo? Maybe I should pony up and buy one to see!
DA/Cutting pad 2.0/83/DA
Not much to say here. The cutting pad worked great and left no haze. No where near the correction of 105 on an 8006 pad though. I'm sure this combo has it's place somewhere on some paint in some detail though! I won't hesitate to try it again in the future.
I know some pics would be nice but I didn't take any
sorry!I will post up some pics of the full detail though in the coming days.
Questions? Comments?
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