While we are on the subject of detailing Mike, can I pick your brain on something?
Sorry for the delay, it's hard to keep up this time of year...
I do production detailing. My go to are Meg M300 for compounding, D166 and D151 for AIO polishing and M205 for polishing. My LSP are Menzerna PowerLock, CarPro Essence and CarPro Reload depending on the job.
Would a multi-step polishing make a big difference on the shine on a car. For example, if I was to polish with M205 on an orange pad, then again with a green or white pad to finish with a polish on a finishing pad, I think you call it jewelling in your book, would that make a dramatic improvement ? I am re-designing my packages for the next season and I have been thinking about putting a multi-step in there... just not sure it's worth it for daily drivers (which is all I do).
Here's my honest answer on your question...
On a dark colored car I do think using great abrasive technology you can create a more perfect finish doing a multiple-step process.
That said, here's something else I say and I'll write a new article for it, (if I don't have one already?)
Wax is the great equalizer
By the above statement, I mean no matter how much you polish, by the time you apply a coat or layer of a product from one of these three categories,
- Car wax
- Synthetic paint sealant
- Ceramic or whatever paint coating
You have just created a uniform appearance via the product you applied. You may have made the finish more perfect or possibly less perfect from the protection product and even the application process but the
BIG PICTURE is the entire finish has now been equalized.
So from that point of view, it wouldn't matter if you did a jeweling step or not - at least from an appearance point of view because you shmooed the finish over with "something".
Also, since you try pretty much every product on the market, do you see a big difference from one product to the next in terms on result?
I have not tried many polishes or compounds. I think Meguiar's products are pretty good, well... I hate M105 because of the dusting, but it does work well otherwise, and I keep reading about other products and I ask myself, can they really be that much better when this product already does a very good job?
What are your thoughts on all this?
Yes.
I see big differences.
The two topics I talk/write about the most are,
1: Abrasive technology
2: Touching the paint
You no doubtedly have read enough of my writing to know I talk about these two topics a LOT.
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