So i did my first detail today and ive goty some comments and would like some feedback.
I worked on a 99 F350 crew cab with burnt orange metallic paint, It was heavily swirled in my opinon as it has only seen the drive thru car washes.
I washed with CG citrus wash n Gloss, to strip anything and proceeded to clay,
I used The elastrofoam system and i do not like it, I used 32oz of RO water with 2oz of ONR and i was still able to marr the paint pretty good, but i wash polishing so no biggy, But i still feel it did not pull contaminents like clay and it was very grabby, i broke it in on windows first, I just prefer clay i guess after using it. Not my cup of tea
On to the polishing i used the Hydro tech tangerine pad with optimum hyper polish, While it did good in most spots some of the heavier swirl spots remained after multiple passes, Makes me feel like i should of used the cyan pad, or used the optimum spray compound with the tangerine to cut time down as i spent alot of time trying to get each panel swirl free. I dunno what to look for as to choose a compound or heavier cut pad plz give feed back.
I got half of the truck done to what i think is a very decent job at a first atempt and i used CG v7 to seal what i have done and i must say i love this stuff, The gloss is great and the Slickness is amazing, You feel it withing seconds the towel just wants to shoot out of my hand, This will be my go to detail spray from now on
Plz help me, Should i be using a compound with the tangerine pad then go back with the polish. Or use the cyan pad with the polish, I was doing 3-4 passes on some sections and by that i mean 4 seperate times of making passes with my flex3401 roughly 4-5 passes each time and i still didnt get it swirl free, Speed was at 4 1/2. most of it was swirl free but some areas just wouldnt get swirl free
While i think the hyper spray worked well, It is very messy to deal with :buffing:
I worked on a 99 F350 crew cab with burnt orange metallic paint, It was heavily swirled in my opinon as it has only seen the drive thru car washes.
I washed with CG citrus wash n Gloss, to strip anything and proceeded to clay,
I used The elastrofoam system and i do not like it, I used 32oz of RO water with 2oz of ONR and i was still able to marr the paint pretty good, but i wash polishing so no biggy, But i still feel it did not pull contaminents like clay and it was very grabby, i broke it in on windows first, I just prefer clay i guess after using it. Not my cup of tea
On to the polishing i used the Hydro tech tangerine pad with optimum hyper polish, While it did good in most spots some of the heavier swirl spots remained after multiple passes, Makes me feel like i should of used the cyan pad, or used the optimum spray compound with the tangerine to cut time down as i spent alot of time trying to get each panel swirl free. I dunno what to look for as to choose a compound or heavier cut pad plz give feed back.
I got half of the truck done to what i think is a very decent job at a first atempt and i used CG v7 to seal what i have done and i must say i love this stuff, The gloss is great and the Slickness is amazing, You feel it withing seconds the towel just wants to shoot out of my hand, This will be my go to detail spray from now on
Plz help me, Should i be using a compound with the tangerine pad then go back with the polish. Or use the cyan pad with the polish, I was doing 3-4 passes on some sections and by that i mean 4 seperate times of making passes with my flex3401 roughly 4-5 passes each time and i still didnt get it swirl free, Speed was at 4 1/2. most of it was swirl free but some areas just wouldnt get swirl free
While i think the hyper spray worked well, It is very messy to deal with :buffing: