3D HD products...

I like HD Total as a paint safe APC. I find it's the best product I've used for spot cleaning cloth seats and carpets. It also works great as a "waterless" cleaner for underhood spray and wipe cleaning.
 
malin819 said:
I have used the following

HD Speed: Best AIO and let me tell you it cuts more then you think. This product with an orange pad can work wonders. Easy to wipe off
HD Adapt: Small learning curve but great cut and the finish is great
HD cut and polish...played with them a little bit BUT doing a black Z4 this weekend and will use this combo
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Currently researching Adapt and Polish. Appreciate if you can you step all over that Learning Curve with Adapt for me? :xyxthumbs:

Your thoughts on Polish will be most appreciated also after this weekend.

Thanks in advance.
 
Recon 4th 502nd said:
Currently researching Adapt and Polish. Appreciate if you can you step all over that Learning Curve with Adapt for me? :xyxthumbs:

Your thoughts on Polish will be most appreciated also after this weekend.

Thanks in advance.
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My $0.02

I find HD Adapt to be a great compound/polish. I know it's marketed to be "adapt"able to many different pads and cutting levels, overall I'd put it in a medium cut. It doesn't cut as much as a product like Menzerna FG400 but it performs and finishes just as good. It is very versatile but as with any HD product not priming the pad with a technique such as the Kevin Brown method works better. Sticking with 4-5 drops initially, then 3-4 after. HD Polish works the same way. Overall HD Adapt is a great versatile polish but if you're working on paint that's really hammered or hard you may find you need more cut but for most cases it works great and easily used as a 1-step.

As for HD Polish I'd put it right around the best polishes out there. Better than SF4000 and right near CarPro Reflect. Same thing with it, start out with 4-5 drops to "prime" and work from there. It finishes great and my favorite part about it is how few oils it leaves behind
 
malin819 said:
I got my wife pregnant with HD Speed...thats how good it is
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LOL.. You know, between HD Speed and Megs D114, I'm not sure you really need anything else in your product line-up. Both do EVERYTHING, (as we say in Boston), wicked awesome!

But in all seriousness, I've used HD Speed on 4 cars now and the results are just incredible.
On one car, it had some serious scratches, I used 7424xp/LC orange thin 5.5" with FG400 & white LC 5.5 w/ 4500. Still had scratches.

Then went over the same area (using clean, but same type of pads) with HD Speed... scratches darn near went away. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was 3 times the charm on the same area, so I decided to do the rest of the car with speed and took out about 85% of the scratches, or level of scratches.

Another thing I noticed about speed, it lives up to it's name "speed". I'm used to doing 6 section passes with Pinnacle Swirl/Scratch Remover, or FG400... With Speed, I notice a HUGE difference after the 2nd section pass. Most swirls are gone in the first pass.

As far as water beading, one car was done nearly 2 months ago with just speed, still has same bead pattern as another car that was a 3 step, including Collinite 476 as the LSP.

Don't know what magic they're cooking up at 3D, but it's some good stuff! :xyxthumbs:
 
af90 said:
My $0.02

I find HD Adapt to be a great compound/polish. I know it's marketed to be "adapt"able to many different pads and cutting levels, overall I'd put it in a medium cut. It doesn't cut as much as a product like Menzerna FG400 but it performs and finishes just as good. It is very versatile but as with any HD product not priming the pad with a technique such as the Kevin Brown method works better. Sticking with 4-5 drops initially, then 3-4 after. HD Polish works the same way. Overall HD Adapt is a great versatile polish but if you're working on paint that's really hammered or hard you may find you need more cut but for most cases it works great and easily used as a 1-step.

As for HD Polish I'd put it right around the best polishes out there. Better than SF4000 and right near CarPro Reflect. Same thing with it, start out with 4-5 drops to "prime" and work from there. It finishes great and my favorite part about it is how few oils it leaves behind
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Thanks.

Yes, noted the "Priming The Pad" nuances and easy cleanup with the HD Line and have heard Legendary Stories about Polish.

Any Pad recs for jeweling with HD Polish?...looking @ the Crimson Hydro-Techs. Would like to stay with a single line of Pads so my daughter can still attend Community College (Since getting into Detailing, Harvard is MOST ASSUREDLY out of the picture lol)
Waiting for Buff and Shine to release their "New Pads" before I jump in :props:

Appreciate your take.
 
My from my research i chose 3D HD adapt and carpro Reflect
once they run out ill try the NEW 3D AAT stuff along with either Polish Angel Master cut or DetailKing Extreme cut as they combines DAT and SMAT
 
Recon 4th 502nd said:
Waiting for Buff and Shine to release their "New Pads" before I jump in :props:
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As far as I know the new B&S pads to be released later this summer are designed for large throw polishers. That being said their flat 5.5" pads are excellent and very durable-their blue and black pads are great jeweling pads.
 
Tried this last time I detailed my wife's black VW Golf-- not allot of swirls, but the paint is hard as nails so polished with a B&S orange pad and HD Polish. Then rather than going directly to POXY, I went over the entire car with Speed with a B&S black pad (just a couple of passes), then POXY, then HD Express spray gloss enhancer the next morning. Knocked my socks of!!!! Give it a try -- especially on black and red.
 
ski2 said:
As far as I know the new B&S pads to be released later this summer are designed for large throw polishers.
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Ahhh, So I'm waiting on a mirage? Won't be the first time lol.

That being said their flat 5.5" pads are excellent and very durable-their blue and black pads are great jeweling pads.
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That's what I thought...probably test both on different paints against the Crimson Hydro-Tech.

Appreciate it!
 
It's so interesting to read this... I looked up reviews of 3D HD Speed and Polish and while they did get nice results, everyone said the durability wasn't that great.

Complete opposite opinion with everyone in this thread!
 
SlvrDragon50 said:
It's so interesting to read this... I looked up reviews of 3D HD Speed and Polish and while they did get nice results, everyone said the durability wasn't that great.

Complete opposite opinion with everyone in this thread!
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Durability and HD Polish? I have no experience with speed.
 
SlvrDragon50 said:
It's so interesting to read this... I looked up reviews of 3D HD Speed and Polish and while they did get nice results, everyone said the durability wasn't that great.

Complete opposite opinion with everyone in this thread!
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I have posted two details I did with Speed and Poxy with excellent results. Just posted a follow up on durability, imho it is an excellent combination and very durable. Florida is an excellent testing ground for durability with the hot tropical sun and hard summer rains.
 
ski2 said:
HD Express and HD Wash were a real surprise to me--Wash actually ends up being almost the same cost as DG because you only need an once in 3 gallons of water--- was amazed at the increase in gloss with HD Express on top of Poxy.

HD Cut, Polish, Adapt, Express etc, etc are from the HD line, but keep in mind there are allot of products from the 3D line (there is a 3D website that has all the products and a HD website that has just the HD line) that have impressed me with thier price and performance: Pink Car Soap if you're looking for a soap that leaves nothing behind, Orange Degreaser, Towel Kleen are all great products.
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the car wash says to use 1oz/gallon. I just did my first wash with it and will be reviewing.
 
tenblade2001 said:
the car wash says to use 1oz/gallon. I just did my first wash with it and will be reviewing.
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The 3D Pink Car Soap and Wash & Wax is one oz per gallon. HD WASH is not--From the 3D Website "Mix 1 ounce of HD Wash to 3 gallon of water."
 
Looks like HD is latest favorite :D
An the price is right.
Any suggestion what to get from start? polish, speed, poxy?
Did I miss anything?

Thanks
 
ski2 said:
The 3D Pink Car Soap and Wash & Wax is one oz per gallon. HD WASH is not--From the 3D Website "Mix 1 ounce of HD Wash to 3 gallon of water."
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Sorry about that...my mistake. I just used the pink soap and am in the process of writing review/compare vs. CG wash and gloss, Mr. Pink, Glossworks.
 
tenblade2001 said:
Sorry about that...my mistake. I just used the pink soap and am in the process of writing review/compare vs. CG wash and gloss, Mr. Pink, Glossworks.
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Do you realize the 3D Pink Car Soap leaves nothing behind--no gloss agents etc so it doesn't seem like a fair comparison with CG Wash & Gloss and Glossworks--I assuming these leave behind gloss agents from the names. A fair comparison would be HD Wash which has gloss agents.
 
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