cutting/swirl remover on bumper

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Harper55987

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Any tips on detailing the bumpers or A-Pillers or really any of the hard to reach areas of a car?

I have a BMW 135i and the bumper/A-Pillers/window pillars are all very curvy, window pillars are extremely thin and can't fit my current 5.5" pads. However, these areas also seem to have a lot of swirls marks/scratches I'd like to try to buff out.



How do you guys get to these? I see that GG has some 3" pads or you can purchase 4" pads. Is this the only way really? By hand was my other thought somehow...

Thanks!
 
Harper55987 said:
Any tips on detailing the bumpers or A-Pillers or really any of the hard to reach areas of a car?



How do you guys get to these? I see that GG has some 3" pads or you can purchase 4" pads. Is this the only way really? By hand was my other thought somehow...
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Other than being a bit trickier to do because of the obvious, it's the same as any other marring...either do it by hand or find a way to use the machine (or, well....decide to live with it).



Some stuff simply *must* be done by hand, and yeah it can take literally hours. Makes you consider just how much you really care about it ;)



But I do *love* the little 3" machine pads/disks! Either adapted to a full-size polisher or used with my GG 3" pneumatic, it's a very effective, and efficient, way to go. I use Meguiar's MF Cutting Disks for aggressive work, GG 3" foam for more gentle applications.
 
Harper55987 said:
What do you use to polish/cleanup by hand? Is this the 4" mf pads and a 4" foam pad??
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By hand, I use M105 (V1.0) and when I run out of that I'll probably get some M101. I want it as aggressive as possible and I sometimes reach for the sanding materials (really like Mirka's foam-backed sanding disks!).



Then I follow with whatever it takes to restore the gloss, often Uno, followed by some finishing polish.



For the media, I use cotton terry (yep, still has it's place, fairly aggressive) or an old MF Cutting Disk or pieces of an old foam cutting pad (LC Orange or, better yet, Meguiar's burgundy ones). Followed by something milder (either foam or a MF towel).



I do use the 4" pads by machine, but not nearly as much as I used to before discovering the 3" ones. I bet >90% of my correction these days is merely spot-correction using 3" MF Cutting Disks followed by 3" Griot's foam.
 
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