Whats your "Go To" Polish?

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I currently have a Griots 6" DA with a 5 inch backing plate. I'm looking for a polish that I can use for the following.

1. Swirl Removal and minor defect.
2. Gloss Enhancement
3. Easy to remove
4. One step, no additional polishing needed
5. Finishes great with Orange light cutting pad

I have been using HD adapt and although it was a pain to remove, its being discontinued so I need something else. This will be used primaily on "daily drivers" that was to clean up the paint a bit and increase gloss.
 
I have HD speed but don't like the longevity of it. I'd like to find a polish with a bit more cut than speed and then I would add some wolfgang deep gloss paint sealant over it to get the longevity I want.
 
Optimum Hyper Polish or good old M205 have been fantastic one-step products with a white or orange lake country pad for us over the years..... though lately we have been using Griot's Correcting Cream a lot :) It is not as easy to remove as the other two, but has great cutting power for a polish and finishes nicely.
 
Meguiars M205

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Re: Whats your "Go To" Polish?

Ultimate Polish, M205, and M86 so1o from Meguiar's. SF4000 (or SF3500 as it's now known), and PF2500 from Menzerna.

Usually using these with Blue Buff and Shine pads, or Tangerine LC Hydros.
 
I don't really have a single go-to polish. For softer paints, or unknown paints, I start with Meguiars Ultimate Polish. Harder paint gets Blackfire SRC Finishing Polish. In order to cover all bases, I also have the compounding "partner" to each of those products.

Going forward as I try to simplify my detailing product shelves, I'll probably collapse everything down to the Blackfire polish/compound or possibly Menzerna. The Blackfire polishes are really easy to work with and yield amazing results. I'm pretty confident I could use them on just about any paint I come across.
 
IME Megs M205 has earned so many cool points that's it's going to be tough to ever be knocked off the pedestal.

Lately I've been giving both Essence and Griots Boss Perfecting Cream every chance in the world to earn some cool points or have that great revealing moment of greatness where I finally see the light and experience the a little piece of the "hype" [for lack of a better word] but that has yet to happen, and I've pretty much given up all hope that it ever will. [that's mostly aimed towards Essence]

And the Perfecting Cream has yet to darken any paint, provide any significant extra gloss, or anything of note other than smell great.

If there was a detailing Hall of Fame, M205 would be a 1st ballot HOF product that all others would be judged against. Other than not smelling as good as Ultimate Polish, it's perfect.:)
 
I've come to really love Optimum Hyper Polish,versatile,easy to use,long working time and finishes well. M205 is great also, been meaning to try the Griots
 
wn1998 said:
I currently have a Griots 6" DA with a 5 inch backing plate. I'm looking for a polish that I can use for the following.

1. Swirl Removal and minor defect.
2. Gloss Enhancement
3. Easy to remove
4. One step, no additional polishing needed
5. Finishes great with Orange light cutting pad

I have been using HD adapt and although it was a pain to remove, its being discontinued so I need something else. This will be used primaily on "daily drivers" that was to clean up the paint a bit and increase gloss.
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For Polish I really like HDAdapt with an orange pad. I also love and use Meg's Ultimate Polish. For German Paints it just seems Menzerna SF4000 is awesome. Not sure I have any "one" that I use on everything. I usually test or note in my book what works well on cars as I go through doing them. Any areas of polish that are more difficult to remove, I just use a MF Towel and a small bucket of Uber Rinseless and wipe it off. Zero issues.

I would suggest that if you have areas that are difficult to remove to verify you've actually removed all the contaminants. I will say that on cars where I've clay/nanoskinned AND Chemically decontaminated the paint, I have no issues removing Adapt when used in right amounts. Swap Pads after two panels and do the above and I would be surprised if you have trouble.

AIO Wise, hands down HDSpeed. I only do this work on the side so 1 car per week, sometimes 2 and 90% of what I target is HDSpeed AIO applications.
 
Eldorado2k said:
IME Megs M205 has earned so many cool points that's it's going to be tough to ever be knocked off the pedestal.

Lately I've been giving both Essence and Griots Boss Perfecting Cream every chance in the world to earn some cool points or have that great revealing moment of greatness where I finally see the light and experience the a little piece of the "hype" [for lack of a better word] but that has yet to happen, and I've pretty much given up all hope that it ever will. [that's mostly aimed towards Essence]

And the Perfecting Cream has yet to darken any paint, provide any significant extra gloss, or anything of note other than smell great.

If there was a detailing Hall of Fame, M205 would be a 1st ballot HOF product that all others would be judged against. Other than not smelling as good as Ultimate Polish, it's perfect.:)
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So true.

Ultimate Polish does smell fantastic.
 
HD Polish+ is my go to polish. HD Speed is my 2nd choice but I still top it with Poxy or Nitro Seal. Over the last couple years I have really dialed in my process with HD Polish and transformed some paint in ways that you would think a two step process was used. Mike Phillips has a very famous quote that you will see very often - "Find something you like and use it often".

Now I have had a few friends recommend the new Grito's BOSS polish system so during my off season I will play around with different techniques.
 
dlc95 said:
So true.

Ultimate Polish does smell fantastic.
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I've never put my finger on what it supposed to smell like either... It's not a fruit. It's got that strange Elmers glue sort of appeal that you can't help but be curious about back in kindergarden. Lol.
Except Ultimate Polish smells better than Elmers glue.. Best way I can decribe it would maybe be flavorless gum before it gets processed. Or maybe it smells like cyan blue if cyan blue was a scent. I dunno, but it definitely smells like detailing goodness.:)
 
dlc95 said:
So true.

Ultimate Polish does smell fantastic.
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Eldorado2k said:
I've never put my finger on what it supposed to smell like either... It's not a fruit. It's got that strange Elmers glue sort of appeal that you can't help but be curious about back in kindergarden. Lol.
Except Ultimate Polish smells better than Elmers glue.. Best way I can decribe it would maybe be flavorless gum before it gets processed. Or maybe it smells like cyan blue if cyan blue was a scent. I dunno, but it definitely smells like detailing goodness.:)
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It reminds me of Meguiar's #6 which smells the same since the late 80's when I started using it. It has a Banana(y) smell
 
rwright said:
HD Polish+ is my go to polish. HD Speed is my 2nd choice but I still top it with Poxy or Nitro Seal. Over the last couple years I have really dialed in my process with HD Polish and transformed some paint in ways that you would think a two step process was used. Mike Phillips has a very famous quote that you will see very often - "Find something you like and use it often".

Now I have had a few friends recommend the new Grito's BOSS polish system so during my off season I will play around with different techniques.
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Ive been using HD polish for a while now and it is awesome. Ive found it finishes down perfect even on the softest paint known to man the "Harley Vivid Black". Only polish I have found that my bikes paint likes. Wish it had just a little more cut though
 
WaxMaster1 said:
It reminds me of Meguiar's #6 which smells the same since the late 80's when I started using it. It has a Banana(y) smell
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No no... I'll try to unsee what I just read... Don't say banana dude. Banana flavor sucks. Every single thing banana is the worst. Banana yellow 1976 Cadillac Sedan Deville? Yuck. The list of yellow banana products and scents is the worst of all things on earth. Ultimate Polish cannot be banana. It just can't. Lol.
 
I might catch some flak for this but I like using chemical guys v32 with orange pad on a pc DA. 4 passes with some light pressure and 2 or 3 more on a slower setting and I find it finishes off pretty much lsp ready. It also doesn't dust much at all and it smells nicely of oranges. I don't like the other v line of polishes but v32 is pretty great for me.
 
I am very fond of Griot's Correcting Cream (my fav) but also have lots of XMT 1- 3 that I use and like.

ScottH
 
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