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Haven't posted a before/after in a while.

This is my neighbor's car. He had some body work done on the driver's side and they did a number on the finish. It looked like they took a Brillo pad to the paint. I had to run the Hitachi at about 2,200 RPM using PG to get rid of the damage. 3 passes in the worst parts.

Sorry, not the best pics. I finished at night plus silver's difficult for me to photograph.


PG w/foamed wool
PO106ff w/polish pad
CMW

An example of the damage...

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And after two passes of PG w/foamed wool...

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Again...

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After...

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The whole car...

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How does the PG finish?
Did you find it necessary follow the PG with the PO106ff?
 
Great job, it came out nice! CMW is Clearkote moose wax, I assume...?
Z06-Goose said:
How does the PG finish?
Did you find it necessary follow the PG with the PO106ff?
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PG is pretty abrassive, and will need to be followed up by PO106FF, which will literally jewel the surface.
 
Z06-Goose said:
How does the PG finish?
Did you find it necessary follow the PG with the PO106ff?
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For a pretty strong compound PG finishes down nicely. On darker colors I notice more hazing/holograms than on this silver. But regardless, I always follow PG with a finer polish.

And yes about CMW, Supercharged. :)
 
That finish looked bad :p. Glad to see it's back the way it should be!
 
Looks good Sevenrd. It's just missing the daytime reflection shot of your fence.
 
I've heard nice things about PG as well. Did dust or gum up any with the wool?

Nice correction.
 
WOW!...that finish looks like my wetsanding operations. Great recovery Sir!

Toto
 
Thanks everyone.

The PG works great. There is some dust but the performance of the polish outweighs an negative feelings about dusting. I wouldn't say it gums up the foam wool, but it will build up. I keep a brush handy and brush it out after a few panels.

Thanks, Toto. It was hard to capture how bad the driver's side was. It looked as if someone dry-buffed it with a wool pad or something. Just awful.
 
do you think pg would replace ssr3? hehe im getting the feeling im leaving all my pb products for menzerna

how does it compare to some of the megs stuff...my buddy from bmw says thast what BMW dealerships use and that if i ever needed a product jus let him know and he can get it...

great job!
 
THENIZZZEIL said:
do you think pg would replace ssr3? hehe im getting the feeling im leaving all my pb products for menzerna

how does it compare to some of the megs stuff...my buddy from bmw says thast what BMW dealerships use and that if i ever needed a product jus let him know and he can get it...

great job!
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Yes, PG would be a good replacement for SSR3. I have both and prefer the PG. For me at least I find it cuts very well,is easier to work with and finishes down better than SSR3.

I don't use Meg's much. I like 83 for the PC, but not for the rotary. Perhaps it was my technique but I found it very gummy with the rotary. Not so with the Menzerna lineup, which work great.
 
Well done there Sevenrd, the before and after look great. Alwas enjoy your posts my friend, thank you for sharing. Got to love Menzerna :righton:
 
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