M105 & m205

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I recently purchased an 04 Tahoe. It's in need of paint correction. There's a fair bit of spiderweb swirls and some small scratches. I plan to use M105 & M205 with my PC 7424 with orange and white pads respectively. My real question is, what should I finish with after the M205? TIA

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Are you asking for another polish, or a wax suggestion?

You'll likely not need to follow M205 with another polish as its a pretty good finishing polish. As for waxes, it's all depending on what you want and your budget is.
 
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You don't need another polish if that's what you are asking. Assuming you did a thorough job with m105 and used the right technique, m205 should finish it.

Mike has some tutorials on jeweling, but m205 works as a final step polish.
 
OK, so what I was thinking has been confirmed. So the next step would be wax. I have some pinnacle liquid souveran I'll use. I'll then finish with a sealer. Thanks guys
 
If you have not purchased M105 try ultimate compound. It has a longer working time compared to M105. Actually M100, M101 or D300 would be my recommendation.
 
The Guz said:
If you have not purchased M105 try ultimate compound. It has a longer working time compared to M105. Actually M100, M101 or D300 would be my recommendation.
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I will always like UC and UP. I've used the M105/M205, and the awesome Menzerna FG4000/PF2500/SF4000, and while each of these products have their own unique user experience, it's nice to take my old green light cutting, and blue polishing pads, slap them on the PC and get to work with UC/UP.

These days, I've replaced M105 with M100, and have been very happy with that change. I even sold my last bottle of M105. While I use M100 a lot on microfiber, it also works really well with my green hex pads - REALLY well.
 
Thanks guys. I have not yet ordered any products.
 
dlc95 said:
I will always like UC and UP. I've used the M105/M205, and the awesome Menzerna FG4000/PF2500/SF4000, and while each of these products have their own unique user experience, it's nice to take my old green light cutting, and blue polishing pads, slap them on the PC and get to work with UC/UP.

These days, I've replaced M105 with M100, and have been very happy with that change. I even sold my last bottle of M105. While I use M100 a lot on microfiber, it also works really well with my green hex pads - REALLY well.
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Same here. I no longer own M105.

M100 on the new Meguiar's burgundy thin foam cutting pad works very well.
 
The Guz said:
Same here. I no longer own M105.

M100 on the new Meguiar's burgundy thin foam cutting pad works very well.
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I had a brand new bottle of m101, and sold that with the m105. Probably shouldn't have done that, but I got sick of having all this different products around...

The M100 also does great on LC Cyan Hydrotech pads.
 
I've also switched from M105 and started using M95 which just seems to be working better, longer working time without drying up and dusts less. I dont have access to M100 or M101 this side of the world but the M95 seemed to have been able to remove defects FG400 couldn't. I'm trying to get my hands on M100 and M101.
 
crazycrew said:
OK, so what I was thinking has been confirmed. So the next step would be wax. I have some pinnacle liquid souveran I'll use. I'll then finish with a sealer. Thanks guys
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Like Kevin said, you'll want to put your sealant down first and then the liquid sovereign. BTW, which sealant will you be using?
 
If you're going to go through all the effort of correcting the paint you should apply a paint coating that will give you better protection and longer durability than a wax or sealant. Plus most of them are easier to apply than waxes/sealants. Just remember to do an IPA wipedown after polishing to remove any oils that could interfere with the bonding.
 
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Ok guys thanks again for all the suggestions. . I did a little de-badging just now. . I want to take care of the spots that I removed the badges from. . I also looked through my supplies and realized I had some of the UC. So I went to autozone and purchase the UP. . I used the UC with an orange pad, the UP with a black pad, then finished with the liquid souveran on a blue pad. . WOW is all I can say. . Tremendous results with little effort. Like stated before, I only took care of the sections where I removed badges, cause the weather here is not the best right now. I plan to do a full detail here soon. Here's the plan, please feel free to correct me if any of my steps are out of line and guve suggestions on products. .

1. Wash
2. clay
3. UC with orange pad
4. UP with black pad
5. IPA wiped down
6. Sealant (thinking carbon collective oracle)
7. Liquid Souveran with blue pad

Thanks again folks. Oh and by the way, I'm using a PC 7424

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UC with orange straight to UP with a black pad is a big leap.

I didn't see what color your vehicle is, are you working under sun light or artificial lighting?

I'm not sure you could get away with that big of a leap on a dark colored vehicle unless you're one of the lucky guys with natural finesse with a machine.
 
Yes. . Orange to black. Should I have used a white pad in between? . I'm working on a white vehicle in natural light under a carport

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I use orange for UC, white for UP, and black for ULW (wax). This is for the Lake country flat line.
 
Ok thanks. . When I do the full detail, I'll use the white pad for UP and black for wax.

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crazycrew said:
Yes. . Orange to black. Should I have used a white pad in between? . I'm working on a white vehicle in natural light under a carport

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The green LC, and blue Buff and Shine also work really well with UP on the PC. Second day in a row of one step polishing done with UP on a blue hex logic pad, followed by sealant on a red. (Hex is made by Buff and Shine). One of my favorite combinations of all time. When I need more cut, I'll use UP on a green Hex, or pink LC. If that isn't working I go to UC on those pads. I never use yellow, or orange, and I'm beginning to hate microfiber pads....
 
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