Compounding Haze and Buffer Swirls

[brwill2005]

My wife's cousin just had his Beretta repainted the factory white. He paid a painter $700 bucks or so to paint it on the side. It is a decent paint job with very little orange peel, but some fish eyes and other defects. The buffer swirls and compounding haze was horrible though. I told him I would buff out the swirls and haze for a good price. Anyways, I used Optimum Compound and yellow Pro Wax waffle pad via the Metabo. I made two passes on each panel. I removed all of the swirls and haze, but a few faint spider web scratches remained. Optimum Compound is not all that aggressive, however, it finishes out so nicely so who cares. Anyways here is some before and afters of the roof and the hood. The whole car as bad as the roof and trunk.



Hood Before

Hood After

Roof Before

Roof After

 

[travisdecpn]

Very nice, I'm hoping to have my Optimum stuff here by the beginning of next week.

 

[Terran]

So optimum compound can be a final polish? I would have though you would have to follow up with optimum polish.

 

[stilez]

Very nice work. That paint looks rather glassy, not too much OP .

 

[MorBid]

So optimum compound can be a final polish? I would have though you would have to follow up with optimum polish.

Nope. that's the beauty of it as it finishes out like the polish. Of course this would vary with the aggressiveness of the pad. Like if you used a wool pad you probaly would need to follow w/a less aggressive one.

 

[brwill2005]

Thanks for the comments everybody. The paint is rather smooth. It had some fish eyes and nibs, but only a very small patch of orange peel on the roof. Optimum Compound while not as aggressive as I would like, does finish out extremely nice. It can be used as the one and only compounding/polishing step if you use a foam pad. I cant wait to try the Professional Compound.