Recent content by markw78

Always been a huge Dewalt fan, my friends a general contractor and has all Dewalt, good stuff... The Makita has a pretty different handle then the Dewalt which has the stype like my PC XP. The Makita was like $25 more then the dewalt which suprised me. Also there are 2 Dewalts with...

Started Friday night with a wash... then my dumb @#$ pulled the car in the garage, and used a leaf blower to blow the cracks /drips out (a 2nd time) after pulling it in... and I stirred up all kinds of dust. Saturday morning I pulled the car back out and hit the whole thing with water, then...

Going over a section one full time using 50% overlapping lines, is that 1 pass? If I don't stop the buffer, and go over the section a 2nd time using the same method, is that a 2nd pass or am I still on my first pass since I haven't added more product? confusing

Is that a finishing polish? M205 on a LC white pad? I hit it with M205 on a gray LC pad after, not sure if that was needed or not. What do you do after your M205+White? Stop there or jewel with something further?

The color is Pacific Slate Metallic, and wow it is weird... The camera won't pick things up on this color well at all. When looking at the car, I was able to see the halogen bulbs in the work lights, like in most pics...very detailed. For some reason the camera won't pick it up on this...

Thoughts? I have been using a my wash soak in a spray bottle with water since QD is so expensive in comparison. Any downside?

How could I get my OEM car color in a spray can that could be used on my brake calipers and withstand the heat? That even possible? Wanted to match them to the car.

Not impressed!! At speed 5 (the most commonly recommended) it stops a LOT. Any off center pressure at all and it stops spinning, this makes it really touch to get the edges, though I guess thats thin area you shouldn't be doing by machine?? Anyways wow, amazed at home sensitive it is to...

I was just looking at my 2002 Pewter trans am under the HID's in the garage... I can see like no swirls or marring at all, even around the lights or right on the reflections, nothing... a little halogramming, and some bad orange peel on the hood, but no swirls or scratches (other then the...

Why not just hose off the mit after each use on the car, before dunking back into the wash bucket?

I have yellow, orange, white, black pads, and some Z-PC, with M205 and M105 coming this week. I know yellow > orange > white > black and M105 > M205 > Z-PC but what about when they work together? Which is the best to start with? Would think I would try M205+white first, but if that...

I worked this with the #3 victory wax (thier most aggressive of a 3 stage polish) by hand with a mf towell and a good deal or pressure. These are all over the car, I think I'm SOL without going to maybe some M105 and a 4" yellow cutter on my PC, but I may be at the rotary/wool/repaint stage...

I got a new G8 GT, I love the color.. Pacific Slate Metallic, but it shows things. The car sat on a dealer lots for at least 6 months, and was at 2 dealers (one Pontiac dealer went down). The paint is in bad shape (to my eyes) theres a lot of micro marring that looks like it was probably...

I'm assuming this is why you never really see videos or hear of people using speed 6... Was polishing the trunk lid and started getting yellow foam all over, I assumed it was the pad falling apart (yellow lake country pad), but it looked ok. Shortly after I found that the part where the...