As you can see in the photo below the paint on this Regal was very stained. This hood has been washed, and clayed using the Hi-Tech Clay Block...and you can see the marring it left on the hood...and that was after I had cleaned the glass on 4 vehicles to break it in. Marred the paint up, or did it? Actually, I think what happened is this paint was slightly oxidized and had a heavy road film on it and the marks are where the clay block broke through this heavy film. Just my theory, and that doesn't mean I'm correct.
Another view after claying. You can see it's stained badly.
Meguiar's G110v2 with a green Lake Country polishing pad for each product used (that's two (2) pads). Each area was about 20x20 so I broke each taped section down into two section when polishing. Speed 3 to start w/no pressure, then bumped to speed 5.5 with about 15lbs. pressure. Don't recall how many passes I made. Obviously, XMT was worked until it was almost gone according to directions. Both products had easy wipe off.
Thanks Richy for the bottle of DG501/601 to try out. Thank you!!! (Photo's are a long time comin'.)
The angle of this shot isn't good, but it is overhead directly. If you look closely can still see swirls that are left on the xmt360 side. Almost too shaded on the right side to say much about Durgloss 501 having any cut with this particular photo.
A little better view. Looking much better. Appears that swirls may be some better on each side, yet still highly visible. Staining is certainly gone.
Duragloss 501 did a fantastic job cleaning the right side. I ended up cleaning the rest of the car with Duragloss 501, I think.
After using DG501 on the entire car I washed it several times throughout the year. Even Opti-sealed it once or twice (plan was to sell it).
The photo below was taken almost a year later after all traces of protection was gone. Absolutely no beading at this point, and sheeting...well let's just say that after it rained the water laid on the horizontal surfaces forever. For this photo an ISP wipedown was done. You can clearly see tape lines and swirls.
Center tape line.
Another shot of the center tape line below.
Although I did not get a real good overhead photo a year later I can tell you that both tape lines were visible on each side, but clearly the xmt had more cut.
How do I know? The xmt tape line stood out more than that of the DG501 side.
How do I know that DG501 didn't have much cut? Well, I don't really have a good answer, but any cut that I did get was from the pad itself, imo. It was real obvious that xmt360 beat DG501 in the cut department. Which concurs with some folks' comments about DG501 being only a cleaner, having no abrasives.
Other's have said DG501 has abrasives. I could not see evidence of it with my eyes or in my photo's.
Does DG501 clean well? You betcha'. Just take a look at the right half of the hood in the photo above (photo #6).
Before I sold this car I used some Optimum Poli-Seal on it that was given to me by Vegas Transplant. It did a number on the paint really bringing out the metal flake and making it really pop. Thanks Vegas!!
Big thanks to Richy for sending me DG501 to try. Thank you!! Sorry it took me so long to get these photo's up for you.
Another view after claying. You can see it's stained badly.
Meguiar's G110v2 with a green Lake Country polishing pad for each product used (that's two (2) pads). Each area was about 20x20 so I broke each taped section down into two section when polishing. Speed 3 to start w/no pressure, then bumped to speed 5.5 with about 15lbs. pressure. Don't recall how many passes I made. Obviously, XMT was worked until it was almost gone according to directions. Both products had easy wipe off.
Thanks Richy for the bottle of DG501/601 to try out. Thank you!!! (Photo's are a long time comin'.)
The angle of this shot isn't good, but it is overhead directly. If you look closely can still see swirls that are left on the xmt360 side. Almost too shaded on the right side to say much about Durgloss 501 having any cut with this particular photo.
A little better view. Looking much better. Appears that swirls may be some better on each side, yet still highly visible. Staining is certainly gone.
Duragloss 501 did a fantastic job cleaning the right side. I ended up cleaning the rest of the car with Duragloss 501, I think.
After using DG501 on the entire car I washed it several times throughout the year. Even Opti-sealed it once or twice (plan was to sell it).
The photo below was taken almost a year later after all traces of protection was gone. Absolutely no beading at this point, and sheeting...well let's just say that after it rained the water laid on the horizontal surfaces forever. For this photo an ISP wipedown was done. You can clearly see tape lines and swirls.
Center tape line.
Another shot of the center tape line below.
Although I did not get a real good overhead photo a year later I can tell you that both tape lines were visible on each side, but clearly the xmt had more cut.
How do I know? The xmt tape line stood out more than that of the DG501 side.
How do I know that DG501 didn't have much cut? Well, I don't really have a good answer, but any cut that I did get was from the pad itself, imo. It was real obvious that xmt360 beat DG501 in the cut department. Which concurs with some folks' comments about DG501 being only a cleaner, having no abrasives.
Other's have said DG501 has abrasives. I could not see evidence of it with my eyes or in my photo's.
Does DG501 clean well? You betcha'. Just take a look at the right half of the hood in the photo above (photo #6).
Before I sold this car I used some Optimum Poli-Seal on it that was given to me by Vegas Transplant. It did a number on the paint really bringing out the metal flake and making it really pop. Thanks Vegas!!
Big thanks to Richy for sending me DG501 to try. Thank you!! Sorry it took me so long to get these photo's up for you.
I worked at speed 3.5 and only the weight of the machine using my Griot's Garage ROP with no intention of correction, just deep cleaning the paint before DG 601/105 x2 for winter prep.
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