Removing swirls from the daily?

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Snowdrifter

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Hey guys. I have a white 2003 Subaru forester with 100k on it. It has some very light swirl marks on it.

What would be my best bet for removing or reducing the appearance of said swirls? Polishing(if so, what polish) or using a filler glaze or similar?

I don't have any polish laying around, but I do have megs #7 and a flex 3401 with red, green, and orange lake country pads.

Quick note about the car: It is my first car and I like it alot. It is the original paint, and I plan for it to carry me through college and several years beyond, if nothing major happens. I'd like to see another 10 years or so out of the car - another 100k. So I am looking for something I can do repeatedly and not worry about going through the clear coat or making it thin as it will be parked outside.
 
Megs M105 or Ultimate Compound would make quick work of the swirls with the machine and orange pads you have. Then final polish with M205 and your green (finishing?) pads.

Keeping in mind the best practice of using the least aggressive method first I would try M205 first to see if that gets you where you want with swirl removal... If not, bump up to M105 (or UC) for defect removal and then back down to M205 for final polishing.
 
Ok, thanks! And this is something I can do yearly/biyearly?
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
If the paint only has light or "shallow" swirls M105 or UC might be overkill and just a fine cut polish with the Flex 3401 would be enough.


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Hey Mike, what polish would you suggest? I'm looking at the PDF on polishes and I'd assume I need something 2-4 - but where on that scale I don't know. I'm pretty new to this and still trying to figure out what's what lol.

Thanks!
 
If you're not looking to invest in a lot of products and yet you want to be able to handle most paint conditions short of wet sanding, you can't go wrong with the pair of M105 and M205. They aren't sexy but they always work. The two products I use now for minor swirls are M205 and Menzerna SF 4000 (previously called Super Finish).
 
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