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Yea, I am realizing that it's a process and sometimes you can't just say use product x/y/z and have it come out perfect the first time. I get the car outside in sunlight today and checked it out real quick. The stripes/trails are gone in the hood, roof, and trunk. There are still a couple...

Well, I started off with the orange pad. But as I said in my last post, I am now using the white. I actually believe that I may be not aggressive enough. I think that the striping I saw was still oxidation in the paint. I am thinking that a heaver compound would be better suited to this...

I worked on the car some more today after work. By the time I started, I only had ~1 hour of usable natural light before the sun was behind all the tall trees at our house (I live off the road quite a bit with tons of tall trees everywhere) I re-did the entire hood with tsr and a white flat...

Ok, I will work it in some more. Also, it seems like most people on here use "section pass". That was the way I was keeping track of it as I was polishing, I was only doing 4 section passes (sorry I know you said you don't like that term) because it looked to me like the product was...

A video that I recently watched on youtube suggested to use a bathroom scale to gauge how much pressure you are putting on the polisher. I used a 5lb weight to simulate the polisher and then I pressed down on it trying to simulate how hard I was pressing on the polisher. I appear to be using...

[/IMG] [/IMG] First two pictures show the "tiger striping". I could not capture all of it but that is some of it. The last one shows a spot of wg tsr 3.0 that I can't wipe off w/ a microfiber. Please disregard how terrible it looks directly around the taped off hood pin area. I'm going to...

Yes, Glaze first was to feed oils to the paint. My paint is NON metallic, I was just quoting Mikes article about tiger striping. I actually did get some pics of what I was talking about! I guess what the viewfinder on the camera shows and what they actually look like when you put them on...

Some of you may have read my other thread where I was asking some questions about an order I was about to place, thread is here --> http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/69377-placing-order-soon-have-some-last-minute-questions-about-using-megs-nxt2-0-wax.html Today I began...

I made the order just now. Got everything posted above excpet swapped out onr for onrww and only got one grit guard. Can't wait to get started!

Here is what I have in the cart so far. 6pk green super soft deluxe microfiber towels (already have 6 blue ones) Optimum no rinse 32oz Optimum car wash concentrate 32oz Nanoskin Autoscrub speedy prep sponge fine Wolfgang total swirl remover 3.0 8oz Wolfgang finish glaze 3.0 8oz Stoner...

It is a 1989 Ford Mustang so it is 24 years old. I don't know if its original paint or re-spray either. I have an entire bottle of nxt so I am going to try it first. If it doesn't look good, then I will definitely look into that blackfire. At that point, I could go pre-wax cleaner ----->...

AC in OC that Porsche looks awesome! I hope I can get mine to turn out that well. I will admit I haven't read the article in depth yet so you may have mentioned this, but how much 7 did you use? I have about a bottle and a half in my possession and I am unsure if that is enough.

According to the two articles underneath your post (which are the main motivation/inspiration to do this particular car btw) that is how its done. I would have thought that I would do all the swirl removal first, then final polish, then glaze, and finally wax. However after reading as many of...

I hope to order my first DA and accessories either today or tomorrow, I have some last minute questions about the wax that I plan to use, which is Meguiar's nxt 2.0 tech wax (liquid) One of the cars that I am applying this wax to is painted with single stage paint that is very heavily...

Man, all of these different styles of pads are really confusing me lol. I think what I am going to do now that I have thought about it is use the pads that Mike used on the Benz w/ single stage paint. He used white, black and blue flat LC pads. I will also purchase some orange pads just in...

I am absolutely certain that the mustang is single stage, I actually did that test with some fine cut cleaner I had laying around a while back and it comes off pink/red onto the cloth. I have not checked out the paint code to see if it came from the factory that way but I'm fairly sure it did...

I think my first post is kind of laid out poorly, making it difficult to read and follow. I would edit it but it appears that I cannot, so let me try to re-write it and hopefully be more concise and clear. I will be working on 3 different cars: 1989 Mustang with red single stage paint 2003...