First time using a PC, how's my plan?

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blazini

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Just picked up a PC and a few products, I'm gonna tackle the car tomorrow. It's an 06 Jetta GLI and it's "Deep Black" (metallic pearl black). Paint's still pretty fresh, just has some light swirls all around, and a couple spots that are swirled a little worse. Most of the driver side was repainted about 5 weeks ago cuz the car was T-boned :angry . They did a nice job but there's some very slight holograms from the buffer they used, and slight orange peel in a small spot on the bumper



The products I have:



1 CSS orange pad

1 CSS white pad

2 CSS grey finishing pads

2 orange microfiber bonnets and and 2 microfiber towels

XMT #3

XMT #1

XMT Carnuba Finishing Glaze

Klasse high gloss sealant



I also have the two free (generic?) orange pads from Autogeek, the white pad that came with the porter cable, and some meguires NXT paste wax. I don't really plan on using these, are these pads good for anything?



I plan on going over the entire car with the XMT #1/white pad to see where I'm at. Then if necessary hitting the more substantial swirls and the with XMT #3/orance pad, then back over those spots with XMT#1/white pad. I'm thinking I should use the Klasse sealant before the XMT carnuba finishing glaze. The description on the XMT finishing glaze makes it sound like a cleaner type wax (fine abrasives), so I'm just trying to make sure it won't take the Klass sealant off. I plan on putting both of those on with a grey pad, and removing them with the PC and a bonnet. Is there anything I should be doing differently?
 
I'm not familiar with the XMT line, so I can't give perfect advice. Anyway, I wouldn't go over the whole car with a white pad and #1. Do a section, inspect your work, and determine if you need to use #3 from there so you can save yourself a lot of time. Make sure you have some good light to work with so you don't do some polishing and realize it wasn't sufficient. The pads that come 'free' from Autogeek are excellent, and will let you do correction more easily than 6.5" pads. Especially on VW clear, you'll probably want to use them actually, and if you would consider your paint swirled at all, you're probably going to need to use an orange pad and appropriate polish on the entire car....



I also don't find a bonnet on the PC to be more useful or faster than just using microfibers by hand for buffing off product.
 
Hey thanks for the advice. Do you think it would be a better idea to just start out with the orange CSS pad and the #1, and use an orange pad and #3/orange for the tougher spots? Then maybe run it over with the white/#1? I just assumed those orange pads were lesser quality since there was no brand name attached, good to know they are useful.
 
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