Cross Country Clean-up - 2003 Honda Pilot Edition

joyriide1113 said:
Ok. As we all know, light colored vehicles like the one you just detailed here don't show swirls as bad as dark colors. But have you noticed because they're light colored, you don't need to do much heavy cutting to get it to look good?

Reason I ask is because for the majority of your details that I have been tracking, the dark colors are the ones you do 2 step cutting/polishing and your light colored vehicles get more of a final polish type product...

Which again leads me to ask my main question. Do you get the same high gloss from a final polish after you've done some cutting before than you do from a vehicle which has swirling but you decided to just hit it with just a final polish? Obviously on a dark vehicle, swirling would still be present and result in a bad look, but on a light vehicle it should still look great.

Sorry if I'm leading your showcase offtopic.
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You're pretty much on target there.

Maybe it's just luck, but the light colored vehicles I've been getting require less polishing (minimal marring). Furthermore, seeing any marring on black or red bothers the nuts out of me, so I always opt for the heavier cut approach.
 
G35stilez said:
You're pretty much on target there.

Maybe it's just luck, but the light colored vehicles I've been getting require less polishing (minimal marring). Furthermore, seeing any marring on black or red bothers the nuts out of me, so I always opt for the heavier cut approach.
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So you agree that despite visible swirls, marring, defects, that the same final polish used after cutting will give the same high gloss it would give if done alone despite the still visible defects. This is in reference to a light colored vehicle..

PLEASE ANSWER YES OR NO TO THE QUESTION.

A lil attorney humor is all :)

I don't think that its that the vehicles only had light marring, I think its that the defects because of the washed out shine in light paint, only show it as marring to the naked eye.
 
joyride: Yes.


The light vehicles have no marring/swirls when I'm done with them. It has been my luck lately that the light ones are the light ones. I have compared a compounded/polished panel to a polished (swirls still there) panel on a light colored vehicle and the differences in most lighting are minute.

Again though, the defects are gone.
 
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