Help me correct my paint!

[otruba_843]

Last week I went to correct my car and ended up quitting. A year and half ago I did a paint correction on my car after I got the car. I used the Wolfgang twins and got about 90% correction. Fast forward to now, I used Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover on my test spot with a LC orange flat pad on a PC at speed 6. I did 6 section passes overlapping and a very slow arm speed. I got about 50% correction this time. It wasn't even taking out some of the big water spots that got etched in. Only half of the swirls were removed. The paint is BMW Monaco Blue Metallic. Does this paint have a hard clear coat? I remember reading somewhere where they said it was soft, but it seemed like it was really hard to correct it. I was thinking about stepping it up and getting some microfiber pads. Either the buff & shine orange cutting microfiber pads or the Meguiar's microfiber cutting discs. Will the 5 inch Meguiar's pads work on a 5 inch backing plate or not? Now onto compound polish. Because the TSR wasn't really doing much, I was thinking about moving up to a compound. I was thinking Menz FG 400 with a microfiber cutting pad on speed 6 then follow up with Menz SF 4500 with a LC flat black pad on speed 5. Is this too aggressive? I don't have any of these products yet, but im trying to get an idea on what will work before wasting money on something thats not going to give me much better results than WG TSR.

 

[rmagnus]

Well sounds like you understand the basics of polishing so if the swril remover didn't work with a LC orange pad I'd say you need to step up the agressivness to a polish. I prefer the Meguiars line. M205 will treat water spots, swirls, light scratches etc and finish down nicely. try a white poilsh pad or use the orange pad if in fact your CC is hard. Finish with a coat of wax.

Run the PC around speed 5 is fine. Speed 6 is just uncomfortable for me. I wax using speed 3-4.

Megs mf pads should be combined with their backing plate to reduce heat buildup which is the killer for the mf system.

 

[Evan.J]

Well sounds like you understand the basics of polishing so if the swril remover didn't work with a LC orange pad I'd say you need to step up the agressivness to a polish. I prefer the Meguiars line. M205 will treat water spots, swirls, light scratches etc and finish down nicely. try a white poilsh pad or use the orange pad if in fact your CC is hard. Finish with a coat of wax.

Run the PC around speed 5 is fine. Speed 6 is just uncomfortable for me. I wax using speed 3-4.

Megs mf pads should be combined with their backing plate to reduce heat buildup which is the killer for the mf system.

:iagree:
and to add use compressed air to blow out the fibers after every section. This is a must!

 

[otruba_843]

Forgot to add the pictures I had.

Before TSR:

After TSR:

Here is the stubborn water spot (pool) that wont come out for some reason. You can see the outline of it.

 

[rmagnus]

Guess it comes down to expectations. I thought the after picture was a huge improvement. One more pass and I think you may have fixed it. You know for a daily driver with dark paint once you do a full correction you'll be chasing these imperfections for the rest of your life. I still say a bottle of M205 will fix your problems.

As for the water spot I really couldn't make out that picture. Big flash in spot in the middle hard to see anything else. Havn't seen a water spot that M205 couldn't handle but then that;s why they make compound as well.