Recent content by bast525

I polished my car yesterday using a PC and some Meg's Ultimate Compound, wiped the whole car down afterwards, and THOUGHT I got all the dust off..... Came out today and saw dried on compound dust on the doors. I tried to wipe it off with a microfiber and some quick detail spray, but the stuff...

Ok... so here I am almost three weeks since buying my Porter Cable, and I haven't done ANY correction on my car yet as I still have not been able to figure out what pads I need!! So a week ago I ordered some Meguiar's 7" Soft Buff Yellow pads to go with the 6" backing plate that came with the...

So, I'm still trying to figure out the best approach to correcting the finish on my car on a budget (in other words, without having to purchase 10 different products). I returned the Meguiar's 7" pads as everyone here agreed they were just too big for use with the Porter Cable, and I am now...

I've been reading almost non stop since buying a Porter cable yesterday. I've determined (I think) that I need a light cutting pad, and possibly a polishing pad for a final shine after using the cutting pad (though if anyone can recommend a good pad that can remove swirls AND get a decent shine...

Bought a Porter Cable 7346 from Lowe's yesterday. It came with a white foam polishing pad, and I'm wondering if this thing is any good. It doesn't look or feel particularly cheap or abrasive. I want to do some light polishing on my '07 Mazda, get rid of some light swirl and water spotting. I'm...

Hello all, long time lurker, just about ready to get my feet wet with my first PC and try to get the swirl marks out of my paint. The car is an '07 Mazda 3, bright red in color. The paint is in very good shape, lots of light swirl marks and water spots, that's about it. I want to get these out...

Hey all. I posted about this a while ago... my car's rear bumper got hit about a month ago in a parking lot. My insurance isn't covering it, and a full repair would require replacing the bumper and several hundred dollars that I can't spare right now (baby on the way). So in the meantime, I...

Hey all... hoping someone can give me some advice here. My car got hit in a parking lot the other day, scraped along the rear bumper. At some point I will be replacing the whole bumper, but in the meantime I'm hoping I can make it look a little better than it currently does. The black...

Just wondering. I've been seeing ads for Meg's Ultimate lately... sounds an awful lot like DG AW to me, possibly with the added benefit of actually having some cleaning ability to it. Just wondering if I'm correct in this assumption or if the two have more difference than this. I've been...

Looking for something I can buy locally. A good polish or swirl remover that works great by hand... any recommendations? I'm pretty gunshy about polishes since whatever I've used in the past always seemed to end up putting more swirls in the paint than it ever took out! There is one area on...

I'm am so ticked off right now it's not even funny. I JUST waxed my car a few weeks ago. Washed and then one layer of carnauba, then repeated a week later, then washed a week later and hit it with Duragloss Aquawax, twice. You'd think it'd be pretty well protected right? Well, I got nailed...

Just wondering... I know some of these newer products work for glass as well as paint/clearcoat. I would like the idea of a protective layer on my glass to keep it from getting water spotted. I just recently figured out that Meg's QD spray works GREAT as a glass cleaner as well, leaving NO...

Hey all, as mentioned elsewhere, I was at Carquest today to pick up some DG AW, and was also looking for DG 105. I didn't see any 105, but they did have DG 101, which, from my understanding of the label, seems to be an all-in-one product similiar to Klasse or Zaino. It claims to clean and...

I just bought and tried DG AW today after washing my car... and I can say my first impression is this is great stuff. I'm glad I found this forum and so many people recommeding this product. Of course... I'll have to wait and see for myself as far as durability but the initial ease of use and...

Hey all. I'm looking for a detailer in the Chesapeake/Hampton Roads area. I simply don't have the time/patience/know-how/garage to do this kind of work in, and think I'd just be better off paying someone else to do it. I have two cars I want to get taken care of, on a regular basis. Someone...