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    Makita or Dewalt? + pads etc

    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...
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    Detailing weekend done! Overall Success

    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...
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    what the $%^ is a pass? :P

    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
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    After M205 on a White pad?

    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?
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    Test spot complete, what a color...Meh ZPC ++M205

    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...
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    Clay, QD vs Soapy water

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

    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.
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    So, I drew a line on the BP of my PCXP..

    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...
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    Pewter Metallic - where is the marring???

    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...
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    why 2 buckets instead of...?

    Why not just hose off the mit after each use on the car, before dunking back into the wash bucket?
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    Picking the right pad and polish combo

    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...
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    water etching, more cut or repaint?

    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...
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    Soon I can start...

    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...
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    First 7424 backing = toast, what did I do wrong?

    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...
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