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Mike, this truck belongs to my best friend. In fact, we served a couple tours overseas together in the Marines. He's definitely not a customer, haha! I just wanted to make that clear. Also, I have tried to educate him. In fact, a year or two ago, he bought about $150 in product from here...

Just reread that page in your book Mike. IDK, maybe you're right. I really need to see it in person again.

I do Mike, I've read it in its entirety, as well as having read most of your articles here at least once. The paint looks great, even in the sun really, but if you put it under the flex light, WOW, it's really swirly. The side I polished really cleared up a lot, with the exception of those...

Orangish, same color as truck. That's why I thought it was single stage. Now I'm not so sure. Flex. First I've heard of anyone burning through with a white pad and 205. Burning through really didn't cross my mind with that combo, especially since it was my understanding that resprays are...

Yikes. Why the uniformity? I've polished a few cars over the years as well as my own a handful of times. I've never burned through with a polisher, so I don't really know what it looks like when it's just starting, especially with single stage paint. My wife's car has a terrible cc failure...

Only looking at the pic, you might think they're water spots, but you can't see them on the unpolished side (sorry no pics).

My best bud recently acquired a late 70's Ford pickup truck. I ONR'ed it and put on a coat of Powerlock, but before I did, I polished one area with a white CCS pad and M205. It cleaned up the paint a lot, but it seemed that I was left with these fairly pattern-like white spots. Honestly, it...

If you don't have one, DO NOT GET A FLEX LIGHT! You will go bonkers.

I can't tell anyone how to live their life, but man, don't drive yourself crazy over this stuff. If it's not fun, what's the point? (Took me quite awhile to get to that point and I'm still probably not all the way there!)

Also, I have no scientific evidence of this, but I think wash bones or some type of mitt are better than towels for washing. Maybe it's because towels have much place for dirt to go? I have no idea. I giggle every time I see someone say they drag a towel over their paint by the finger tips...

What color are your cars? So much of this is subjective, i.e, when you talk about fine scratches, we don't know exactly what you mean, because that phrase can mean different things to different people. I am of the belief, that a black car with soft paint will swirl over time regardless of what...

Hmm. I have an '04 350z that I have daily driven for what will be 10 years in September. In the Midwest, no less. Years ago I started getting a little rust where the roof meets the windshield (which was replaced in 2007). It wasn't actually rust that you could see, but it started bubbling a...

Just wanted to update my own thread for future searchers: I have found that using Mother's WHEEL brush works much better than their TIRE brush. So far, the tires I've cleaned with the wheel brush come clean the first time, maybe a touch more cleaning going on the second time I hit it. For the...

Last I checked, grass (and other plants) need sunlight to live, lol! Just teasing!

I feel like I've noticed this too.

I would do one panel start to finish if it were me, though I don't think it makes that big of a deal. Every time you want to polish though, you're obviously going to have to wash and dry thoroughly. Wash it and clay it on one day. The next time you work on it, do a panel start to finish...

Honestly, this could be its own thread, (and I think I heard this from someone else recently, like Larry Kosilla--possibly), but I'm tempted to think that almost any wax, even the "finishing" waxes help cover up swirls. I was out of town visiting family about a month ago. I brought all of my...

Yeah the Bubba tool comment is just, well, ugh. I mean, tell Mike Phillips the Flex is for "Bubbas"--give me a break. Anyways, I bought a Flex almost six years ago. It's the only polisher I have experience with. If you're concerned about being able to finish perfect, you absolutely can with...

Just wanted to update for future searchers. I currently still use only ONR to wash. However, when I try, I use a fair amount of OID to dry and it makes things really slick. Now, during this process, lots of streaks are left(but they're super light, not sure you can see them in the sun...

I know this is a really old thread, but I happened to come across it as it's very similar to an issue I had a year or two ago (I had made a thread; I'll try to find it and edit this post with it later). Just wondering if the OP is still around and if he ever managed to "figure it out." I have...