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I finally took the plunge and ordered the 7424XP Menz kit a few weeks ago. I was so excited when it came that I couldn't wait to use it. I work in CA during the week and have a trailer that I stay in while there. That is where I had the kit sent. I was leaving the next day and did not have time to do a complete detail but wanted to get some protection on my explorer after work. I did a rinseless wash and then broke out the PC and applied Natty's blue with a blue pad. I thought everything went great. It was a little dark by the time I buffed everything off so I didn't see the tiny blue spots on my trim and windows. I don't know if that is normal or if I used too much nattys on the pad. I left the next day and just returned last night. The explorer sat in a parking lot for a week. I just did another wash tonight and found the darn spots on about half of my trim and windows. I tried to buff them off, scrubbed with a bug sponge but no luck. How do I get those things off and are they normal?

BTW, the rest of the explorer looks great. Can't wait to use the menz this next week on my severely neglected '02 Camry (I should be shot for how I have treated that car)!! I'll post pictures from that session.
 
No sir...It isn't normally. Post some pic some we can get a better idea of what you are working with.

Tip: apply natty's blue by hand and not with the XP ;)
 
I've had a similar situation with natty's blue recently after putting a second layer on.

A few days later white marks which appeared to initially look like scuff marks started appearing in random areas of the car. I'm not sure if these were as a result of areas I'd missed when buffing the natty's blue off, or whether it had re-cured on the car.

No amount of buffing would remove them. The only way I could get rid of them was via clay.

Therefore, all I can suggest is trying to remove them with some clay.
 
I dont know how you could possibly get sling on a paste wax. I think it might have been via the Menzerna.
 
It has to be the natty since that is the only thing I have used. I didn't have time to use the menz yet. The spots are blue. I am back in AZ now but will get some pics when I get back to CA a week from Monday. I am thinking about using some IPA to test an area and clay if that doesn't work.
 
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It was a little dark by the time I buffed everything off so I didn't see the tiny blue spots on my trim and windows. I don't know if that is normal or if I used too much nattys on the pad.
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The goal when machine cleaning, polishing or waxing is to throw no splatter on adjacent panels but that can be hard to do sometimes, I know and you can call me the King of Splatter, (don't look at my apron after a hard day's buffing).

That said,

Never turn the polisher on until the face of the foam pad is against the paint.
Never lift the polisher off the paint until you've turned the polisher off and the spinning pad has slowed down.
Don't over use product as it leads to splatter
After you turn the polisher on, first spread the product out over the general area you're going to work to get the product spread out and then work the product. for waxes a good rule of thumb is to cover each square inch of paint with 2-3 passes before moving on to new territory.

Another option is to use painter's tape to tape-off anything you don't want splatter on should you accidentally make a mistake. It's faster and easier to apply and then remove the tape versus remove little dots of product that seem to attach with a bond stronger that Gorilla Glue.

I've been known to get a little excessive when I tape off a car but hate removing splatter like you describe so I tape-off most cars as though they were going into a paint booth.

Taped-off and covered up
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Afterwards

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Thanks Mike for the great tips and welcome to AG! You are right about those little spots bonding. I am thinking about doing an IPA wipedown to try and melt them off. They are on there like concrete! I had not even thought of taping off just for waxing but that is exactly what I am going to do in the future.
 
It's weird how little dots of splatter can stick so tightly to all the wrong places. The most annoying is the windshield. Even if you pick the little dots of product off the glass with your fingernail it seems like if you don't get them off the glass they'll just find a new place on the glass to stick.

Ugh...

Tape is your friend.

I tend to poorboy a lot of things and use whatever's hand and laying around like newspapers and soft old blankets for convertibles. Painter's drop cloths are work great too especially if you want to cover up a convertible top that's up instead of down.

:)
 
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