cardaddy
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Congrats on the new rides!:dblthumb2: Your salesman should be sending you birthday, anniversary and holiday cards for LIFE! :laughing:
While not perhaps being terribly thick, Mazda paint does tend to be towards the hard side of neutral. I'd say if 1 is softest, 5 dead middle and 9 hardest that the ones I've seen are at least a 7.
As for Menzerna FG400, I'm not totally sold you'll need it going in. Just depends on the pads you use more than anything. I can say that I've worked Mazda paint with the Meguiar's "microfiber cutting pads" with D300 and it came out great. Wasn't LSP ready, but it WAS corrected, swirls, RIDS and all.
Move the D300 to a lesser pad and it still corrected just fine, (and was MUCH closer to LSP ready).
What you might want to consider is SI-1500. It'll correct like crazy with an orange pad (CCS, flat, doesn't matter), and just by switching to a white or blue (already lightly primed) pad and just an ever so slight 'mist' of distilled water it'll even finish down pretty darned good, if not excellent (yes... LSP ready).:xyxthumbs: Of course for that extra 'pop' you can go for SF-4000. I like 4000 over 4500 because it cuts better but actually finishes just as good (at least according to Menzerna) on anything but the absolutely softest black paint you'll run across.
While not perhaps being terribly thick, Mazda paint does tend to be towards the hard side of neutral. I'd say if 1 is softest, 5 dead middle and 9 hardest that the ones I've seen are at least a 7.
As for Menzerna FG400, I'm not totally sold you'll need it going in. Just depends on the pads you use more than anything. I can say that I've worked Mazda paint with the Meguiar's "microfiber cutting pads" with D300 and it came out great. Wasn't LSP ready, but it WAS corrected, swirls, RIDS and all.
Move the D300 to a lesser pad and it still corrected just fine, (and was MUCH closer to LSP ready).What you might want to consider is SI-1500. It'll correct like crazy with an orange pad (CCS, flat, doesn't matter), and just by switching to a white or blue (already lightly primed) pad and just an ever so slight 'mist' of distilled water it'll even finish down pretty darned good, if not excellent (yes... LSP ready).:xyxthumbs: Of course for that extra 'pop' you can go for SF-4000. I like 4000 over 4500 because it cuts better but actually finishes just as good (at least according to Menzerna) on anything but the absolutely softest black paint you'll run across.
