Newbie - Few questions about pads and products

[gimayabexe]

Hello everyone,
I am newbie and have few questions to find the right products.

First of all, I had bought Meguiar's Paint Restoration Kit to restore my car's paint.
The car is a red Corsa D 2008.

1. What pad should I use to remove to apply the Meguiars Ultimate Compound?
2. Could I use the same one to apply the Meguiars Gold Class Carnauba Plus or could I use the Meguiars Soft Foam Applicator Pad to apply the Carnauba?
3. Does the products is enough for my car? Should I use something else?

Furthermore, how can I restore my headlights?
Photo: http://i.imgur.com/xY6NvFx.jpg
I tried with 800, 1200, 2000 water sandpaper and buff them after with Plast-X with Meguiars Soft Foam Applicator Pad but they remain a little blurry. Also this marks remains, not all of them but.. yeah.

PS: I am planning to buy a DAS6-PRO+.
I will upload photos of the paint and the headlights after the attempt to restore them.

Thank for your time!

 

[DETAILROOKIE]

I recently did a pair of headlights with plast-x and ended up with the same scratches. I'm curious what everyone recommends to remove those scratches as well.

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[AZpolisher15]

I recently did a pair of headlights with plast-x and ended up with the same scratches. I'm curious what everyone recommends to remove those scratches as well.

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What type of applicator did you use? I use foam applicators and PlastX all the time for headlight maintenance. I never instill additional scratches. PlastX won't do much for severe oxidation.

 

[gimayabexe]

I recently did a pair of headlights with plast-x and ended up with the same scratches. I'm curious what everyone recommends to remove those scratches as well.

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Please note that the image of the headlights was before the try to restore them. So mine had this scratches.
I think after, leftd a bit of swirls but it's visible only at night and with a flashlight.

 

[DETAILROOKIE]

What type of applicator did you use? I use foam applicators and PlastX all the time for headlight maintenance. I never instill additional scratches. PlastX won't do much for severe oxidation.

I used a yellow foam hand applicator. I did a quick once over to show the customer that her headlights still had hope, but I did not expect to see the little scratches. She is coming in this weekend so I planned on applying plati-x by machine and then applying HD-speed, depending on what Plasti-x does.

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[ducksfan]

My experience is the McKees AIO Headlight Polish will correct considerably better than PlastX. But since you probably can't get that for this weekend, do you have any Flitz? The stuff cleans plastic extremely well. You can probably pick some up at a hardware or automotive store. Oh, and my first choice would be a foamed wool pad on a rotary to initially get the sanding marks out.

 

[james751993]

1. I use a yellow LC cutting pad with ultimate compound as it is most effective on my finish.
2. I would not mix waxing or finishing pads with products designed to cut paint. Use specific pads for specific products. E.g have a few pads for UC and a few pads for a finishing polish like ultimate polish (you will need to follow up with finishing polish when using UC as it will haze paint usually) and have separate pads for waxing. I wax by hand, but I have observed may guys on the forum use a machine. That's just my personal preference though, waxing by machine is probably better.
3. I would recommend buying; ultimate polish to use after ultimate compound, more microfibre towels, and a few more hand applicators if thats the path you want to go down.

James

 

[gimayabexe]

Thanks for your answer, really help me a lot.

How much ml needed to polish a car? Is the 473ml bottle enough?