Mike,
Thank you, I did a lot of research prior to doing the cars, I did not want to do any damage and as it turned out both cars I did came out great.
I did my wife's CRV Touring with Griots 6" random W/ the 5" pads and the G 21,( great machines, ) using the Blackfire 1 step then the Collinite 845 wax.
Good combo. Griot's long stroke works great with BLACKFIRE One Step.
I went a step further with the 'Vette by first using the Blackfire 1 step, then I did the Blackfire paint sealant then the 845 wax.
But I still notice the 'Vette ( black ) still gets swirles very easily ( I used a California duster VERY lightly to remove some road dust and it got a few swirles on that area ( approx. 3' by 3' ) then I stopped using it .
How do I get those swirles out, do the process over ( rebuff again in that area ? )
I bought a duster and used it one time on a black Honda Pilot I used to own.
Being black paint everything is easy to see. The first time I used it to remove dust, I moved it from the driver's side of the hood to the passenger's side of the hood. I then looked and saw a pile of dust on the passenger side of the hood pushed there by the duster. So for me, what I saw was while it removed some dust it also simply pushed dust around on the car. My guess back then and today are the people that like these types of dusting tools the best own white and light colored cars so they don't see this dust-pushing-leaving-behind type of thing that I saw. Just my take.
As for scratching - I've never seen scratching from a duster but you are supposed to just waft the fibers lightly over the top of the paint not press the fibers into the paint. Not saying this is how you're doing it, just saying when used correctly it's not "supposed" to scratch paint.
But here's the deal - clearcoats are scratch-sensitive.
Clearcoats are Scratch-Sensitive
Bar
ry Meguiar coined this term as a way to share that while most clearcoats paints tend to be hard, they still scratch very easily and that can be hard for many of us to wrap our brand around.
So it could be the duster is simple working fine and the paint on your car is scratching easily. Maybe the swirls are in the wax? Some people have seen this...
To remove swirls in paint the only way to do this is to abrade the surface and thus level it. You could do this with the BLACKFIRE One Step. For cars that get light swirls as normal wear-n-tear, products like the BLACKFIRE One Step are great maintenance products. Don't do any topping with sealants or waxes as you'll just remove them when you buzz over them next time you use the BF One Step.
And this is the idea - from time to time, simply buzz over the primary panels, hood, roof and trunk area with the BF One Step. It only takes a few minutes after you've done the initial detail work, (wash, dry, clay machine polish), so now after washing or wiping clean, you normally don't need to clay, just buzz over these horizontal surfaces. Let the wax dry and as you have found out - it wipes off so E-A-S-Y. Then BOOM - you're back to flawless finish.
The only other alternative is to consider using a ceramic coating on the paint but to do this you would have to remove the BF One Step as a coating will not bond properly to waxes and sealants. To do this, simply machine polish with a dedicated polish and then chemically strip the paint and then install the coating.
Crazy stuff huh?
That's why for my own daily driver, a mundane Lexus RX350 - Just use the BF One Step. If she starts looking tatty I just hit her again with the One Step. I keep the process fast and simple so I'm more likely to do it. If I make the process long and complicated and skip it.
Don't know if the above helped but I tried.
