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can someone help me please! I somehow changed a setting on my computer and now I always have to scroll left and right when I come here. anyone have an idea of what to do to fix it?:nixweiss

no its not nxt in a new bottle. I started out with a new pontiac with 20 miles on it and about 1000 miles worth of swirls. I washed with megs gold class, and clayed with the detailer line. than 80 with the rotery followed by #21. I find that #21 is much more like #26 than nxt.to me nxt...

here is a photo of my rim. can someone tell me what caused this? I believe it was caused by someone with acid wash. can someone say I'm right or wrong? is there any way to fix it without saying "is mounting and balancing extra" :nixweiss

I kept getting a light compound haze with #9 so I tryed #82, same thing. I decided to try megs polishing pad thinking my polishing pad was to aggressive, same thing. speed up or slow down the rotery.......same thing. follow up with#81 on the pc, still there. for kicks and giggles I got the #82...

I have a black and decker rotery which still works great after all these years. this model is now the dewalt 849, however the dewalt starts at 1000 rpms and the black and decker starts at 1500 rpms. how accurate is the dials? are they really the same speed with different dials or did they give...

went though my black truck with sfp and #81 and it looked awsome in the garage, no swirls under fol. lights or a 500 watt painters lights. when I pulled it out it still looked great than I started to walk around and to my surprize I saw swirls! they were very light and you had to "look" for...

has anyone tried to get mild scratches out of chrome plated plastic. I thought of trying plastix from megs put I decide its better to ask first. thanks for any help. :confused:

does any one prefer flat pads? I saw a pole on autopia that almost all perfer bi pads. I was going to try a flat pad because I have a hard time getting close to edges and thought the flat pad would be more like the old wool pads that I'm use to. anyone have feed back on this? Thanks all!:confused:

I did my black truck with a rotery and #9 and loved what I was seeing. moved on to #3 and ended up with small light swirls, they were hard to see but they weren't there before #3. any Ideas? when I did #7 with a pc I did seem to have that problem. is it my technique? or is it the product? or am...

has anyone done a side by side comparasion between #26 paste and liquid? I'm using paste now, but being as I have a pc now I'm toying with the idea of liquid. I've seen reviews on but but not side by side.

I've used rotery buffer for a couple of years now, mainly doing my own and family vehicles. it seems most of you perfer pc over rotery. It also seems most quality polishes can't be applyed with rotery anyway. should I switch to pc?