Howdy from Texas. I recently rubbed against a yellow rubber coated pole with my wife's white expedition! Doh! So I wash the truck, clay bar, a little rubbing and polishing by hand, and 99% of the paint transfer was removed and the finish still looked great. I wanted it to look 100% so broke out my 10 year old PC7424, a white polishing pad, a little polish, and went to work.
At that point I had catastrophic backing plate failure! NOOOO!!! The foam on the backing plate disintegrated, and I almost put the spinning/oscillating backing plate right into paint! Luck would have it that I did NOT, and saved the day, but now I need a new backing plate, and my pad is shot since it went spinning off into gravel.
I've been on an autopia mailing list since I bought the PC, don't know if I was a member here before or not, and they had a good sale going on and I picked up new 5" backing plate, some new LC 5.5" pads, and added in the Klasse Twins since I have always been interested in them but for whatever reason just had always stuck with Meg GC.
So...my shipment comes in today, I'm going to do my car first (2012 Autumn Bronze Mazda 6) and then my wife's 2010 white tri-coat Ford Expedition EL. Living in TX, we are currently out of drought, but that doesn't change the fact that it could come back...so I am going to try some waterless & rinseless (thinking Meguiar's D114 but I'm open to try a few and see what works best) and some sort of spray wax just for maintenance (thinking D156). But who knows, I'm not a brand snob so willing to try different things. First things first I need to get the Klasse on and go from there. Hopefully the Klasse looks good on my very dark metallic and my wife's white metallic...that's the first challenge!
At that point I had catastrophic backing plate failure! NOOOO!!! The foam on the backing plate disintegrated, and I almost put the spinning/oscillating backing plate right into paint! Luck would have it that I did NOT, and saved the day, but now I need a new backing plate, and my pad is shot since it went spinning off into gravel.
I've been on an autopia mailing list since I bought the PC, don't know if I was a member here before or not, and they had a good sale going on and I picked up new 5" backing plate, some new LC 5.5" pads, and added in the Klasse Twins since I have always been interested in them but for whatever reason just had always stuck with Meg GC.
So...my shipment comes in today, I'm going to do my car first (2012 Autumn Bronze Mazda 6) and then my wife's 2010 white tri-coat Ford Expedition EL. Living in TX, we are currently out of drought, but that doesn't change the fact that it could come back...so I am going to try some waterless & rinseless (thinking Meguiar's D114 but I'm open to try a few and see what works best) and some sort of spray wax just for maintenance (thinking D156). But who knows, I'm not a brand snob so willing to try different things. First things first I need to get the Klasse on and go from there. Hopefully the Klasse looks good on my very dark metallic and my wife's white metallic...that's the first challenge!
