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I plan to use the PC I bought for the first time in the next week or two and need some help with pad selection. I have some very light swirls and plan to plan and wax my 2010 Chevy Silverado.

What CCS pads would you use for the following products?

  • Meguiars Ultimate Polish
  • Meguiars NXT WAX
Also, what size pads are recommended for the PC? I have a few 5.5" but I am considering buying some 6.5". Would I need a larger backing plate?


Thanks for any help.
 
Stick with the 5.5's the PC likes them better. Also You might want to try some flat pads, more correcting surface area.
 
5.5" pads are best for the PC. I wouldnt even bother with 6.5" pads. The PC doesnt handle them very well.

Ultimate Polish probably isnt going to remove much of anything unfortunately. If you want to remove light swirls I recommend picking up some SwirlX.

SwirlX - Orange or white pad (depends how hard your clear is)
NXT wax - Blue pad


Buy a few orange and a few white, and a couple blue pads.
 
I would stick with the 5.5 as well. Keep ultimate polish, but add some ultimate compound if you want to stay with megs products. Ultimate compound with Orange will work well for safely removing swirls. Ultimate polish with a white or gray pad will finish really well. I use red pads for application of a sealant like NXT. Those are are a fine trio of products to start with.
 
I recommend SwirlX as well if your using the Meguiars line. I only use swirlx by hand but if used by machine it should be an orange or white LC pad. Stick with 5.5 inch pads as well, anything bigger and your DA will not be happy. You can use ultimate polish with a white orange as well.

FYI do yourself a favor and ditch the NXT wax, its durability is downright horrible. Sure it look great but within a week its back to square one.
 
also note the CCS pads offer less cut due to less surface area and if using a product with diminishing abrasives the finish wont come out as good as it should. however most of the above is great recomendations, i personally use orange,white and red pads the most, unless paint is soft black pad you might not need. can get 2 orange 2 white 1 black 1 red of the 5.5" flat pads. work great on my 7346
 
RhetoricMixes said:
I recommend SwirlX as well if your using the Meguiars line. I only use swirlx by hand but if used by machine it should be an orange or white LC pad. Stick with 5.5 inch pads as well, anything bigger and your DA will not be happy. You can use ultimate polish with a white orange as well.

FYI do yourself a favor and ditch the NXT wax, its durability is downright horrible. Sure it look great but within a week its back to square one.
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I've been using nxt for about a year now, and the durability last much longer than a week (paste wax, not liquid). I only do one layer and it still protects and beads water very well. Albeit my car does get washed usually once a week, sometimes i might skip a week due to the weather and is garaged when not driven but still. Could also be bc i use a "wax as you dry" product but im sure it lasts longer than a week.

Switching over to CG blacklight for my next detail, but my brother's cars still see nxt and my "wax as you dry".
 
I question how so many bag on the durability of NXT but conveniently ignore that quality with Pinnacle Souveran? Now, in all fairness I haven't tried Souveran and it's been 1.5-2 years since I've used NXT, but my information tells me that 1. Neither last. 2. Pinnacle is expensive, NXT is cheap. 3. Pinnacle looks superb. NXT? Well it doesn't look like ass now does it? I would be surprised if Pinnacle doesn't look noticeably better side by side but for for 8X the price it should. If it lasts a week or two longer than NXT, then for 8X the price it should. If it goes on and comes off twice as easy, yeah, for 8X the price it should. If it smells 3X as good, you guessed what I'm going to say next, for 8X the price it should. Now I don't recall NXT being hard to use, I don't recall it smelling like ass and I don't recall it looking like ass. I can take a few guesses at the answers I'm going to get, but I'd like to hear them nonetheless. How come one is judged so harshly, when the other is forgiven of the same shortcomings, has another shortcoming altogether, and is only seen for its virtues? I guess the Pinnacle is the high maintenance girlfriend who rates at 9.5 in looks, beauty trumps all. And the NXT is the high maintenance girlfriend, with less expensive tastes, who rates a 7 to 7.5 in looks, whose similar flaws are never overlooked.

Sorry for the thread hijack, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
 
Il give you one reason NXT gets a bad rap.

Collinite 845. Cheaper, looks better, lasts waaaaay longer.

Just sayin...
 
I'm not giving nxt any bad reps for sure. It looks great it's just that I've never had it last more than 1-2 weeks on a daily driver. The worst part is when exposed to a lot of heat like down here in Texas it seems to get full within a few days and you have to use a spray wax to get the shine back. I ditched nxt a while back and use menzerna power lock as my preferred sealant.
 
Forgot to mention rix that I've never used souveran and prolly never will. Not because it's not a great product but because I don't need nor want to spend big bucks on a wax.
 
tw33k2514 said:
Il give you one reason NXT gets a bad rap.

Collinite 845. Cheaper, looks better, lasts waaaaay longer.

Just sayin...
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It's got Souveran beat 2 out of 3 as well.
Collinite 845 is definitely a rational answer to NXT, and a very good answer at that.
I guess once a certain price point is reached, the more rational concerns are free to leave the equation when it's convenient for them to do so.

Sorry for the :hijacked: txdox21
 
RhetoricMixes said:
I recommend SwirlX as well if your using the Meguiars line. I only use swirlx by hand but if used by machine it should be an orange or white LC pad. Stick with 5.5 inch pads as well, anything bigger and your DA will not be happy. You can use ultimate polish with a white orange as well.

FYI do yourself a favor and ditch the NXT wax, its durability is downright horrible. Sure it look great but within a week its back to square one.
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What kind of pad do you use to hand apply the swirlX, and why only by hand?
 
txdox21 said:
What kind of pad do you use to hand apply the swirlX, and why only by hand?
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Sorry i read my earlier post and i meant to say scratchX i apply by hand and not swirlx. I havent use swirlx so i cant say much about it, but if i did use it it would be with a orange or white LC pad.
 
About pads.....do you use a pad once and throw it away or can they be used more than one?
Thanks,
Newbie
 
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