First attempt with the PC

AUdakota

AUdakota

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This weekend I had some time to really test out the PC. My hood and roof had pretty bad oxidation and many people told me the only way to correct it was to get the whole truck resprayed. Instead I put some XMT2 on a green Edge2k pad and let the PC work its magic. Can you tell which side I did??? I finished it with some XMT glaze and topped it with natty's blue. Ill try and get some whole truck pics tomorrow, but for a first attempt at a true detail Im pretty happy.

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Top side right? :D

Try the OC on it...it should be there tomorrow.
 
I just got it I guess yesterday I was outta town this weekend but Im gonna give the OC a try this weekend and see if I can get even more shine out of it and get the rest of the swirls out of the roof.


Basically I was driving home today and was shocked to actually see reflections on my hood rather than just an oxidized hazy crap pile. The only way I had been able to fix (hide) the oxidizing had been the red turtle wax because it just covered up the paint, I would use a ton of it to get a little result hahaha.
 
AUdakota said:
I just got it I guess yesterday I was outta town this weekend but Im gonna give the OC a try this weekend and see if I can get even more shine out of it and get the rest of the swirls out of the roof.


Basically I was driving home today and was shocked to actually see reflections on my hood rather than just an oxidized hazy crap pile. The only way I had been able to fix (hide) the oxidizing had been the red turtle wax because it just covered up the paint, I would use a ton of it to get a little result hahaha.
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That is a good shock...I used to do the same thing with an older red Lincoln I had.
 
you definitely want to hit at it again...still looks like you paint has a lot more potential...slowly work you way down to less aggressive pads/polishes after you go at it one more time with an agressive polish/pad...
 
Yeah I was gonna try some XMT2 on the orange pad and than go back over with the glaze on maybe the blue finishing pad and than top it off with natty's again.
 
I have XMT 1,2,Glaze and A little bit of Opt. Compound and Opt. Polish.
 
OC will work great and if that wont get it all after 2 passes find someone with a rotary that will do wonders too
 
Im gonna give the OC a try today after class what do you guys think orange pad and let the compound do the work?
 
AUdakota said:
Im gonna give the OC a try today after class what do you guys think orange pad and let the compound do the work?
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sounds like a good choice...have a yellow pad by any chance? looks like severe oxidation so a heavy cutting pad will work things quicker...just keep a bottle of 50/50 h20/ipa around to spritz off the polish to get a good look at how much you have worked the paint...
 
Ive got all the edge pads, so go with the heaviest cutting pad and OC and see what happens.
 
Hit it with OC and yellow pad. Follow that with XMT 2 and orange pad. And if you really want after that, hit it again with XMT1 and maybe a blue pad or the other side of the orange pad (shouldn't be necessary though). Feel free to use the XMT Glaze after this but it shouldn't help with any correcting, it would only help amplify the shine before a carnauba.
 
after all the heavy polishing i would follow it up with the glaze...not sure if it really matters but after heavily cutting paint i seem to get better results using a glaze...kinda feel like i am lotioning up the paint after abusing the hell out of it :)
 
orngez said:
after all the heavy polishing i would follow it up with the glaze...not sure if it really matters but after heavily cutting paint i seem to get better results using a glaze...kinda feel like i am lotioning up the paint after abusing the hell out of it :)
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:iagree: I really like the glaze, orngez took the words right out of my mouth abou the lotion part.
 
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