To all the lightly experienced, including myself...

CEE DOG said:
Yes

Yes it can if their is any wax but their won't be because you just polished and have not yet waxed or sealed.


Different animal
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Thanks. I did a Collinite 845 job on my car last month and realized I want to polish the hood again (water etchings). Was looking at the best way to strip before the Ultimate Compound.
Dawn and clay?
 
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trencher7 said:
Thanks. I did a Collinite 845 job on my car last month and realized I want to polish the hood again (water etchings). Was looking at the best way to strip before the Ultimate Compound.
Dawn and clay?
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You don't have to strip as UC will strip the wax.
 
I have been using 91% IPA straight... (I feel that it will remove every thing and not be as susceptible to streaking). Please correct me if this is wrong Ron or Danna?
 
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trichard said:
I have been using 91% IPA straight... (I feel that it will remove every thing and not be as susceptible to streaking). Please correct me if this is wrong Ron or Danna?
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If you don't want to wipe over and over..get mineral sprits for a clean wipe down.
 
I have used Mineral Spirits Straight, 91% & 70% IPA Straight, 91% & 70% IPA at 50/50 Cut.
For certain polishes, in my experience, the mineral spirits are hands down the best to remove and not streak. For others (105 in particular) I prefer 91% IPA Straight. The mineral spirits didn't strip the 105 as easily as the IPA.

Regarding streaking however - as long as you know you got all the polish off, then it isn't a huge deal when you are about to go over it with another step. The key thing is you don't want to RUB the paint while trying to remove polishing oils/fillers. This is just going to cause more marring.

I suggest a person experiments and find out what works best for them in their climate. The Mineral Spirits are about all I used when it's warm outside here (humid). But the IPA seems to work better for me when it is cold. YMMV.

DLB
 
trencher7 said:
Thanks. I did a Collinite 845 job on my car last month and realized I want to polish the hood again (water etchings). Was looking at the best way to strip before the Ultimate Compound.
Dawn and clay?
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As Rsurfer said the UC will remove the wax anyway. Some people do like to use Dawn before doing a full polish job. I would just say wash the car good with your auto shampoo. If your car is parked outside a lot then I would clay the horizontal panels. It's only been 1 month so that should go fast and I think you can skip the vertical panels (assuming you clayed a month ago)
 
I was working on the hood of my black car last week and after the polish it looked flawless...........until I did an IPA wipe down. The wipe down revealed circular tick marks left behind by the polishing. You can't see them at all when there's wax on the car, even just a spray wax. But boy does that IPA really bring out the flaws. Now if I could only get rid of those tick marks.
 
mcpp66 said:
I was working on the hood of my black car last week and after the polish it looked flawless...........until I did an IPA wipe down. The wipe down revealed circular tick marks left behind by the polishing. You can't see them at all when there's wax on the car, even just a spray wax. But boy does that IPA really bring out the flaws. Now if I could only get rid of those tick marks.
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That's exactly why I started this thread. :xyxthumbs:

Those circular tick marks are from pad/polish induced marring(I'm sure you know that). It's not really hard to get rid of defects(swirls, etc..). What's harder is removing the marring left behind from the defect removal step. Were you able to remove the marring? I have a lot of trouble on soft paints. Much better luck with harder paints, which makes sense.
 
No, not completely, but after spraying UQD and following that with UQW I couldn't see any of those marks. It's like putting make-up on the car to cover the blemishes........but it looks much better now without the swirls and RIDS so I'll accept this. Perhaps some paints are just impossible to get perfect results with, especially with a noob like me holding the polisher.
 
mcpp66 said:
No, not completely, but after spraying UQD and following that with UQW I couldn't see any of those marks. It's like putting make-up on the car to cover the blemishes........but it looks much better now without the swirls and RIDS so I'll accept this. Perhaps some paints are just impossible to get perfect results with, especially with a noob like me holding the polisher.
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VERY well said. I'm in the same boat. I couldn't agree more. :dblthumb2:
 
Yeah, sometimes you have to take your lumps and move on........what I wonder though is what does a detailer tell his/her customer when they can't get rid of polish-induced tick marks? I was thinking about starting a side project where I would wash cars and do some minor paint correction with a DA.........this is sort of scaring me away from doing that now.
 
mcpp66 said:
Yeah, sometimes you have to take your lumps and move on........what I wonder though is what does a detailer tell his/her customer when they can't get rid of polish-induced tick marks? I was thinking about starting a side project where I would wash cars and do some minor paint correction with a DA.........this is sort of scaring me away from doing that now.
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Honestly, I doubt the clients are around to even see this. If the marring can be covered up by wax, I'm sure that's what they do. There's obviously some detailers that don't have this problem, but I'm sure there's a lot that do, just like us.
 
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