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I was curious, if anyone read my 2001 Excursion in the show off.
I had tremendous problems with my G100 while doing this beast. I used it before on my Neon and had similar problems, just not at the scale or size of the Excursion. I used the recommended pressures, centered the pad, pressed on a towel inbetween adding product to soak up residual. I laid a bead in a circle about an inch inboard from the pad (6" pads) and very little pressure, the pad would stop rotating. I figured operator error, but the more I tried to make sure I was centered, no build up of product, tried different products on different pads (80-8006/9-8006/83-8006) with no different results. At one point the pad spun, but I wasn't doing any good as just the center of the pad was touching the paint. I had originaly suspected my 80 was bad. I got a gallon of 80 with my gift certificate and made sure to mix it up until I got a nose bleed and poured into a 8oz squeeze bottle. It's really liquidy and almost immediately soaks into the pad. Not like 83 or 9 does.
It's just frustrating. I did spin the G100 with just a pad and didn't take much to stop it. When I did stop using the G100, I had better results using ScratchX by hand. I tried my rotary with 80 but it really slung, it was raining 80 on me but hardly any touched the car. I thought 80 wasn't that liquidy.
Anyways......
I was curious if there was anything else I should try.....I don't use the side handle, I hold at the head with my left hand (I'm a lefty) and hold the body of the maching with my right. I used my right hand to steady the machine and use my left to make sure it's centered and flat. I spent more time doing that than seeing if my product was being spread right. I've seen video's where the pad is pressured and distorts the pad. I try that, it stops for sure...
I thought of mailing my G100 to you guys and see if it's me or the machine. I am the type to not cause complications until I weed out the problem. Such as if you get it, works fine for you then it's me and send it back. I've read a ton, looked a ton of video's of others using the PC/G100/7424 etc and they push down to distort the pad slightly and it still spins. I did one pass of ScratchX by hand on the beast, took me 1 1/2 hours for that and fought the G100 for 2 hours. I just had enough sunlight and warmth that the 26 went on and gummed up a second before spreading. It was cold. LOL. Looks good though
Your customer service is excellent and will follow any instructions I can. Just wanted your input before calling customer support.
Signed....
Frustrated.
Aaron
NOTE: I am leaving to watch my Niners play the Bengals at the 'Stick so I won't be home this afternoon thru Sunday.
I had tremendous problems with my G100 while doing this beast. I used it before on my Neon and had similar problems, just not at the scale or size of the Excursion. I used the recommended pressures, centered the pad, pressed on a towel inbetween adding product to soak up residual. I laid a bead in a circle about an inch inboard from the pad (6" pads) and very little pressure, the pad would stop rotating. I figured operator error, but the more I tried to make sure I was centered, no build up of product, tried different products on different pads (80-8006/9-8006/83-8006) with no different results. At one point the pad spun, but I wasn't doing any good as just the center of the pad was touching the paint. I had originaly suspected my 80 was bad. I got a gallon of 80 with my gift certificate and made sure to mix it up until I got a nose bleed and poured into a 8oz squeeze bottle. It's really liquidy and almost immediately soaks into the pad. Not like 83 or 9 does.
It's just frustrating. I did spin the G100 with just a pad and didn't take much to stop it. When I did stop using the G100, I had better results using ScratchX by hand. I tried my rotary with 80 but it really slung, it was raining 80 on me but hardly any touched the car. I thought 80 wasn't that liquidy.
Anyways......
I was curious if there was anything else I should try.....I don't use the side handle, I hold at the head with my left hand (I'm a lefty) and hold the body of the maching with my right. I used my right hand to steady the machine and use my left to make sure it's centered and flat. I spent more time doing that than seeing if my product was being spread right. I've seen video's where the pad is pressured and distorts the pad. I try that, it stops for sure...
I thought of mailing my G100 to you guys and see if it's me or the machine. I am the type to not cause complications until I weed out the problem. Such as if you get it, works fine for you then it's me and send it back. I've read a ton, looked a ton of video's of others using the PC/G100/7424 etc and they push down to distort the pad slightly and it still spins. I did one pass of ScratchX by hand on the beast, took me 1 1/2 hours for that and fought the G100 for 2 hours. I just had enough sunlight and warmth that the 26 went on and gummed up a second before spreading. It was cold. LOL. Looks good though
Your customer service is excellent and will follow any instructions I can. Just wanted your input before calling customer support.
Signed....
Frustrated.
Aaron
NOTE: I am leaving to watch my Niners play the Bengals at the 'Stick so I won't be home this afternoon thru Sunday.
80's pretty thick stuff. If I put it on a 8006 pad, you can see it puddle on the pad before getting squished onto the surface.
, I just don't want to send back a good machine if it's operator error.
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