Here is a shot of what XMT360 can do. This was on a White LC pad. This product is the easiest to buff off. It is actually supposed to flash completely and not require any buffing but I do anyway
Chrome and B-billars were done with auto-finesse triple.
Ding dang! the paint looks liquid wet!
Mike - Maybe you could add some comments about what the proper amount of product to use is on an AIO/cleaner wax verses a dedicated polish?
I've always used the 3 pee-sized drops when polishing but you mention keeping the product/pad "wet" when using an AIO.
See post ## of this article...
How to choose a one-step cleaner/wax
You'll see the words heavy and wet and I explain what the mean in context of using a cleaner/wax or AIO.
You can prime your pad like you would when using a compound or polish or just place an X pattern, or Circle pattern on the face of the pad and get to work. After a few section passes you're pad will be primed.
- Do you clean your pads on the fly with towel technique in your other article?
Definitely
YES
You're going to be pulling a lot of gunk like road film, oxidation and paint off the paint so yes, clean your pad often.
- It seems like with a lot of product the pad is going to cake up much faster so I'm curious how often you clean on the fly with an AIO
Well if you're working on
severely neglected paint you want a
LOT of
liquid on the surface working for you, not a thin film of product.
Liquid = your choice of cleaner/wax
If you're maintaining a
daily driver in good condition then you can use a little product.
That's the nature of using a cleaner/wax.
One thing to point out is that I actually noticed a few minor imperfections APPEAR after using the cleaning wax in some cases. B/c what essentially you are doing is cleaning the surface you may uncover a few more imperfections while slightly correcting some. Let me be clear that this is not adding imperfections, but you are definitely exposing the true paint, but of course polishing it to a nice gloss. This is me me and my picky detailing eye...no customer would ever notice it.
When you buff out neglected paint, especially clearcoats, you clear up the surface and expose or reveal defects that you previously didn't notice. It's normal.
In the same way buffing out paint reveals the random isolated, deeper scratches or RIDS buffing out paint with a compound, polish or cleaner/wax will reveal all kinds of defects.
I plan to add MD151 to my arsenal next.
Interesting to read that you can AIO the windows. I never thought of that as I always used Megs dedicated glass cleaner. D112 or something like that? The grape stuff! I will have to try that next time as the last car I did had some stubborn spots on the windows that the glass cleaner couldn't take out.
Glass isn't too picky...
I like the idea of topping the AIO with a spray wax. I'll have to do some tests and see if it's really worth it. I would like to try optimum spray wax for this as I hear great things. Would you spray on paint directly or on microfiber towel to apply?
Great article once again!
How you apply a spray wax kind of depends on what you're doing but in most cases I dampen a clean, folded microfiber towel with the spray wax and then use the dampened microfiber towel to apply and spread out a thin, layer of wax.
I teach this topic as one of my classes at Mobile Tech Expo each year and also in my
Detailing Boot Camp Classes.
gone more than just a little bit OVERBOARD when it comes to what WE want versus what the CUSTOMER wants. :xyxthumbs:
