Advice on 2010 Jeep Wrangler Paint Correction

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Getting ready to do a paint correction on a buddies 2010 BLACK Jeep Wrangler in the next week or 2. His truck sits outside and is a daily driver, he probably gets it washed every couple of weeks, so I'm assuming the worst, lol. Anyone with experience on a Wrangler that can give me some pointers and or advice? I have a HF PC with a LC backing plate and LC flat pads 6 of each color. I have M205 and a 3M rubbing compound at home, should I invest in M105 as well? Thanks in advance
 
i have done a few extremely bad black Wranglers. the first one i did i used a PC with microfiber/M105 and LC pads/M205/SF4000. it took a LONG time to get the deep scratches out.

do yourself a favor and remove all of the trim from the hood, they are only held on with a few nuts. working around them is a pain.
 
I'd use the m205 and see how it does. If you feel it doesn't do the trick, then step it up to m105 in your test spot and go from there!
 
I own a 2012 Wrangler and will second removing the the hardware from the hood. I also remove the spare tire and windshield wiper arms.
 
What color pad do you recommend, orange? Same thing here, doing one next week
 
Since you said the vehicle is black. I would go with a polishing pad, not the orange ones. (Lake Country makes orange medium cut and white for polishing I believe.)

It all depends on what level of polishing/paint correction you want to take it to IMO.

If I was going to do paint correction, I would go with a compound like M105 and a Meguiar's MF cutting pad, followed by M205 and a polishing pad.

If I was just doing a polish, I would just go with M205 and a polishing pad.

You might want to look into an AIO, to just polish and protect it at the same time. So it will depend on if you want to do a 1 step, 2 step, or 3 step.
 
Jeep Wranglers are one of the worst vehicle to polish IMO! Charge accordingly! You'll need some smaller pads for all the tight areas. Be cautions of the protruding hinges and the bolts.

 




MF cutt/M105 (took a few applications to remove all of the defects), LC White CCS pad/ Menz PF2500. this was done with a Rupes. i did one that was a little worse than this with my PC and it took a LONG time to get a good result. M205 didn't finish that great for me with the PC, i had to hit it with FF4000 to get a clean reflection.
 
RaskyR1 said:
Jeep Wranglers are one of the worst vehicle to polish IMO! Charge accordingly! You'll need some smaller pads for all the tight areas. Be cautions of the protruding hinges and the bolts.

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RaskyR1 said:
Jeep Wranglers are one of the worst vehicle to polish IMO! Charge accordingly! You'll need some smaller pads for all the tight areas. Be cautions of the protruding hinges and the bolts.

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Hate jeeps from a polishing stand point with a passion! I don't know what it is but the paint is so stubborn to work with. You need to hit it hard as they are practically bullet proof.
 
When you say hit it hard what exactly do you mean as I'm still a semi newb. Thanks everyone else for the advice and this is a freebie, besides beer and lunch and the way it sounds probably dinner as well, lol. Trying to get all the practice on friends and family cars before I start charging. I had planned on this Jeep being a major pita, and that's why I want to attack it
 
Some of the paints are hard and need more than just a light polish to correct. I do my hinges by hand. The front grill is all plastic. On mine the grill paint seems to be softer and easier to work in the headlight wells if I just remove the grill to work on it. Mine are white, tan and flame red so I don't have experience with the black
 
you need to see the Jeep to see how bad the paint is and how much time you have to invest in the job. Wranglers require a lot of patients and a lot of time for heavy correction.
 
Well I put a new front bumper on my buddies Jeep yesterday and had a chance to inspect the paint. Its pretty bad, tons of swirls, and scratches, cant feel any of the scratches with my finger nail though, more like surface scratches. So after doing some more reading on here would it be better to attack his paint with SF4000/FG400 combo, or should I stick with the M205/M105 combo? Also will the LC flat pads be sufficient or as I seen some people mention going with a MF cutting pad, would that be the Meguiars pads? Needless to say I have put this off another week or 2 in case I have to order new material.
 
Anyone??? Need to know if I should order above mentioned products.
 
Either of those two combos will work, you can use flat pads (you'll want orange or yellow for the compound), or you can use microfiber pads if you want, there are several options, Meguiar's being among them. There is really no right or wrong, just different choices.
 
I would go with the menz combo, less dusting and more forgiving
 
i would go with Menz. look into their FG300 it cuts a little better that FG400, but it does leave haze behind. in my opinion SF4000 is the best Menz polish to pair with the FG line. it will polish out the haze and leave a great gloss. it's going to take some effort to get the paint cut so take your time.
 
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