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Re: I-Quit sale
But surely this is unfair, Hunter, to suggest that you have been misled by the members of this forum. When you joined MOL less than a month ago (5/23), you stated, "I just want to wax my car." At that point it surely would have been crassly commercial to tell you that you needed to purchase a G110. Most people who are just starting out prefer to do their detailing work by hand. They are not interested in machine polishing.
On 5/28 you bought yourself a clay kit and some NXT (and other basic stuff). On 6/2 you showed us pics of your Caddy (the freshly waxed car looked great) and told us that that the paint was defect-free. Two days later your shared that you wanted your car to look shinier. At this point folks started to discuss with you a detailing process that would include hand polishing with SwirlX and Ultimate Compound. On 6/5 RZ Autodetailing prophetically warned: "you will probably not get the results your looking for without a machine or your hands falling off ..."
On 6/14 you showed us pics of your car alongside two others and expressed disappointment that your car, which you had recently washed, clayed, and waxed, did not look as shiny as they did. On 6/15 I explicitly suggested to you that you should consider investing in a dual action polisher, and my suggestion was seconded by Andy.
On 6/17 you informed us that SwirlX did not remove any swirls. You were advised to get Ultimate Compound and to try that, and if that did not effect the correction that you desired, then you would have to get the car machine-polished. CieraSL shared that he too had had not seen any improvement on his hard GM paint and had found that he had to invest in a G110 polisher, and suggested that you too "might have to do the same." You acknowledged this possibility.
Finally on 6/19 you announced your decision to quit and to sell your supplies.
What more could anyone have done? We tried to advise you within the parameters of your announced objectives, while respecting your expressed desire to keep detailing expenses to a minimum. None of us knew, could know, how effective hand polishing would be on your car's particular paint system. There was only one way for you, and us, to find out--by you doing it. And now we know.
Hunter, you need to look at this as a learning process. There are somethings one can only learn by doing. You have learned how to wash , clay, and wax your car. You have learned how to polish your car by hand. And you have learned that if you want to remove swirls in your hard Cadillac paint, you will either need to retain the services of a professional detailer or invest in a dual action polisher and appropriate pads.
As Mike Phillips likes to say, we are here to see you through to success. But success does not come overnight nor without investment of time, energy, toil, and resources. Be patient. Determine your priorities and objectives. Plan ahead.
Cheers,
Al
Originally posted by agp423
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On 5/28 you bought yourself a clay kit and some NXT (and other basic stuff). On 6/2 you showed us pics of your Caddy (the freshly waxed car looked great) and told us that that the paint was defect-free. Two days later your shared that you wanted your car to look shinier. At this point folks started to discuss with you a detailing process that would include hand polishing with SwirlX and Ultimate Compound. On 6/5 RZ Autodetailing prophetically warned: "you will probably not get the results your looking for without a machine or your hands falling off ..."
On 6/14 you showed us pics of your car alongside two others and expressed disappointment that your car, which you had recently washed, clayed, and waxed, did not look as shiny as they did. On 6/15 I explicitly suggested to you that you should consider investing in a dual action polisher, and my suggestion was seconded by Andy.
On 6/17 you informed us that SwirlX did not remove any swirls. You were advised to get Ultimate Compound and to try that, and if that did not effect the correction that you desired, then you would have to get the car machine-polished. CieraSL shared that he too had had not seen any improvement on his hard GM paint and had found that he had to invest in a G110 polisher, and suggested that you too "might have to do the same." You acknowledged this possibility.
Finally on 6/19 you announced your decision to quit and to sell your supplies.
What more could anyone have done? We tried to advise you within the parameters of your announced objectives, while respecting your expressed desire to keep detailing expenses to a minimum. None of us knew, could know, how effective hand polishing would be on your car's particular paint system. There was only one way for you, and us, to find out--by you doing it. And now we know.
Hunter, you need to look at this as a learning process. There are somethings one can only learn by doing. You have learned how to wash , clay, and wax your car. You have learned how to polish your car by hand. And you have learned that if you want to remove swirls in your hard Cadillac paint, you will either need to retain the services of a professional detailer or invest in a dual action polisher and appropriate pads.
As Mike Phillips likes to say, we are here to see you through to success. But success does not come overnight nor without investment of time, energy, toil, and resources. Be patient. Determine your priorities and objectives. Plan ahead.
Cheers,
Al
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