New Menzerna polishes

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Curious if anyone has tried the new labeled polishes from Menzerna? If so which ones thanks.
 
Are you looking to work on your MBZ?
 
No,I actually used Scholl S3 and Perfect Finish on it awhile back,I've used Fg400,Power Finish,and Sf 4000.None of the new updated stuff though.
 
took some scratches out with 400 and finished down with 3500 on my vette. Still a work in progress since I have other things on my plate
 
Tried the intense polish,love the working time and how one drop on a da will one half of hood,but it's the dusting I don't like.I have many products on board that can match the performance of menzerna with out the dusting to much clean up time.I bought it to try out nice product but the dusting is a promblem.anyone have there own remedy to delete that promblem?
 
Also bought the jescar powerlock,nice product leaves a very nice slickness and ease of removal.left a coating on it last night to cure on a 53 olds convertible .a little,dab goes along way as well.
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
This was brought up last year when I attended the course. It is part of their relabeling in a step process.

Step process
https://www.menzerna.com/automotive/polishing-programme/
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Wow, that's a great graphic to illustrate how what used to be a 3-step process (compound, medium polish, fine polish) with the "Standard Products" is now a 2- or possibly 1-step process when you use a "Special Product" like FG400.

Mike, do you know anything about that Heavy Cut 1100 product and how it relates to 1000 (Power Gloss)?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Wow, that's a great graphic to illustrate how what used to be a 3-step process (compound, medium polish, fine polish) with the "Standard Products" is now a 2- or possibly 1-step process when you use a "Special Product" like FG400.

Mike, do you know anything about that Heavy Cut 1100 product and how it relates to 1000 (Power Gloss)?
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I do not know anything about either of those two products.

When I got on the Menzerna bandwagon, FG400 was just released. Later on I heard the stories about how PG1000 was not very user friendly and how it could dust. After hearing that I never looked into it.
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
I do not know anything about either of those two products.

When I got on the Menzerna bandwagon, FG400 was just released. Later on I heard the stories about how PG1000 was not very user friendly and how it could dust. After hearing that I never looked into it.
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Thanks, I was just wondering what the 1100 was, since it's not sold here in the US. As came up in another thread, I don't really know why they still sell PG, except that it's half the price of FG400...but whatever money you save using that you lose in extra time. I guess there are some applications where it must make sense.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Thanks, I was just wondering what the 1100 was, since it's not sold here in the US. As came up in another thread, I don't really know why they still sell PG, except that it's half the price of FG400...but whatever money you save using that you lose in extra time. I guess there are some applications where it must make sense.
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It took me almost an year to figure it out when to use the PG1000; hard clearcoat, rotary with wool or hard foam.
The 1000, 2000 and 3000 seem to be tailored for rotary use.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Thanks, I was just wondering what the 1100 was, since it's not sold here in the US. As came up in another thread, I don't really know why they still sell PG, except that it's half the price of FG400...but whatever money you save using that you lose in extra time. I guess there are some applications where it must make sense.
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Honestly I do not know why they sell it either. Especially now with SC300 and FG400. There is no reason to bother with PG1000.

That's exactly right. You save up front but lose on the back end.

RPM_BR said:
It took me almost an year to figure it out when to use the PG1000; hard clearcoat, rotary with wool or hard foam.
The 1000, 2000 and 3000 seem to be tailored for rotary use.
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Even then, FG400 and SC300 will outperform PG1000.

I know I haven't used PG1000 but I don't see anywhere that PG1000 would be used over the other two compounds.
 
Mike@DedicatedPerfection said:
I know I haven't used PG1000 but I don't see anywhere that PG1000 would be used over the other two compounds.
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I'm sure we could speculate endlessly on this, but maybe PG is a good fit where you aren't trying to get a "show car shine", maybe on a large area like a boat, so factor a lot of product and low expectations and a compound which costs half as much may be the ticket.
 
I used to use PG1000 and now FG400 and SC300. FG400 is alot easier to work with and it seems like a more re-fined product. At least based on the way i use it, FG400 produces a better finish. One interesting observation is a bottle of PG1000 is actually 10-20% heavier than FG400 and I always wonder why is it so since both market as similar level of cut. I really like FG400, but not so for their finishing polish. I seriously hope their finishing polish can have a shorter work time and less dusting.
 
dschia said:
. One interesting observation is a bottle of PG1000 is actually 10-20% heavier than FG400 and I always wonder why is it so since both market as similar level of cut.
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It's funny you mention that, many years ago when I first bought Menzerna, I got bottles of PG, IP, and FPII and it was startling how much heavier the bottle of PG was. But the simple answer why PG and FG400 are different densities are because they use different abrasives.
 
PG1000 was designed for the refinishing industry, panel shops, not the detailer. It's designed for rotary use and heavy sanding mark removal.
 
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