Polishing a car with Essence for a second time

[dpk20x]

Anyone have experience polishing a car that has previously been polished with Essence? Do you find that the paint responds any differently?

I had great success using Essence for the first time last November on my Avalanche. I one-stepped most areas with an orange flat pad on my GG6. Took out most of my light swirls and left behind an incredible gloss.








Now I'm trying to clean up some light damage from last winter. I'd say the defects and swirls I'm trying to remove are about the same as last year. Nothing too heavy. Paint just seems harder now. I've had to step my pad up to a Meguiar's microfiber cutting disc. I almost never use microfiber pads on my truck because I always felt my paint was on the softer side and they always leave behind some haze.

Today I'm getting absolutely no haze with the cutting disc and essence. Only thing I can think of is the fillers are still there from last year and doing their thing. Or maybe I'm losing my mind? Thoughts?

 

[dpk20x]

So no one here has any experience with it getting any harder ...

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[Joe@NextLevelDetail]

So no one here has any experience with it getting any harder ...

Im the MANIm the MAN

No, Essence does not make your paint harder to polish.

It does have some Quartz and Sio2 but that does not make your clearcoat any harder to polish.

It might just be in your head, or lighting was playing tricks on you the first time around, depending if you was outside or inside you might of thought your paint wasnt that bad of you were correcting more then you actually were.

 

[dpk20x]

Thanks. Just to clarify I wasn't expecting the paint to be any harder. Just surprised that I ended up needing the microfiber cutting pad this time around. Paint certainly seemed to respond differently this polishing session.

 

[dpk20x]

Here's the final results.

Essence on a microfiber cutting pad using my Boss G15. All of this done on relatively soft jet black paint. No micro-marring that I can detect although I don't have any fancy indoor light set up. All my polishing is done outdoors.

 

[Rsurfer]

Here's the final results.

Essence on a microfiber cutting pad using my Boss G15. All of this done on relatively soft jet black paint. No micro-marring that I can detect although I don't have any fancy indoor light set up. All my polishing is done outdoors.

If you can't detect marring in direct sunlight, you probably have no marring.

 

[MattPersman]

Looks good did you use cQuartz over it as your lsp or just straight essence ?


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[dpk20x]

Nope I have a bunch of PBL surface coating I'm still trying to use up before I make the jump to cquartz. So PBL then I topped that with reload

 

[RaskyR1]

If you can't detect marring in direct sunlight, you probably have no marring.

Actually, I'd be more inclined to say that the Essence would be filling in any light DA haze/marring from the MF pad. IMO it's rare that a MF pad will finish down perfectly, regardless of polish choice, even more so on solid black GM paint.