2000 Neon that was in ROUGH shape. Worst car I've seen so far.

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Re: 2000 Neon that was in ROUGH shape. Worst car I've seen so far.

Awesome how you documented your work! I always learn something from well documented postings.

You mentioned the owner of the Neon wanted a "single-pass" polish detail.

What's involved in a "multi-pass" polish detail job?

That's a good question.

A "multi-pass" polish detail job typically means that you will perform multiple stages of scratch/swirl reduction. You would starting from the most aggressive (as needed) followed by less aggressive passes.

ie. Start with M-105 and a polishing pad, follow up with M-205 and a polishing pad, perhaps once again followed up with M-205 and a finishing pad.

Rather than changing pads and products, you might change the amount of speed and pressure you are working at.

Like I say, it's a good question, because, I think you may get different interpretations to the meaning.

How Bill described it is exactly what I meant. When I say "single pass/stage polish" I mean exactly that. I went around the vehicle 1 time switching between M105 and Menzerna SIP (depending on which panel...105 was used on the hood, roof and trunk and SIP was used on all of the side panels). I spent right at 3 hours making 1 complete pass around the car and used 2 orange pads (I would've used three, but unfortunately my others were on route to me, ha ha...I had just ordered 6 more but they were delayed 1 day so I had to do a lot of on the fly cleaning on them)

I basically offer two "complete" detail packages. One is a "Single Stage" polish package and the other is a "Multi-Stage" polish package which GENERALLY is 2 complete passes starting with an agressive polish on orange and dropping to a finishing polish on white, but occasionally you get a car that needs 3 or more passes for total refinement. USUALLY it's higher end cars that really want a perfect finish that would opt to pay for 12+ hour details that are required for that kind of labor. I generally tell people that a "single stage" polish will finish off 65%-75% of the defects in the paint with multiple passes cleaning up 90+%

Had I done multiple passes I would've done 3 for this car starting with M105 on a yellow pad (occasionally using the wool/foam hybrid Kompressor pad in spots) followed by SIP on an orange pad and then 205 or Chemical Guys P40 Pro Polish on a white pad to finish it down. But that would've taken at least 7 hours for polishing alone and been quite a bit more money, lol.

BTW, I strictly work with a PC DA polisher right now and it NEVER goes less than speed 6 for polishing (it's not even the new fancy XP model, ha ha). My next purchase around Christmas will probably be a Flex DA to speed up correction.

I also want to stress that no amount of polishing would've finished this car down completely. There was no denying that it needed to be wet-sanded on every panel.