I know this has come up, but it worked for me so sharing!!

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As I sat today eyeing the black BMW 328is (a car I have polished many times), I decided that over the years I had fallen victim to the hype about "burning paint" if you are not careful. Therefore, I have become a great polisher, but not "corrector" of paint. Thus, I took out my Griots, Cyclo, and Makita today with a few pads and pulled out some product that I have not used in a while- months.



This car has a lot of marring at 160k miles, but still shines nicely. After a wash and clay, I went over a section first with Megs. yellow foam and Griots. Under the Brikmann lights I could see that surface marring was gone, but webbing and other 'lines' still existed.



Then I turned to my Makita and said, "Alright, it's your turn."



I grabbed that with a burgandy Megs. pad and UNO (got this at SEMA from Renny Doyle about 2 years ago--I think it was SEMA).



I primed the pad and set it about 2.75 on the dial to keep it under 1500rpms.



I worked it about 3 or 4 slow passes and did not wait until product was gone. Removed with trusted mf towel. Then I used the Makita with the yellow foam and 205 and then the same pad and 205, but changed to Griots.



BIG difference!



I am going to try the mf system next week for the first time and do the same above, but substitute UNO for 105.



I know I can get this down to 2 steps, but at least tonight I feel more like a corrector and not a polisher! :)



I have seen you guys use the Griots/PC and so on and get similar results, but I have not been able to correct with my Griots as well as today's results. However, was just reading the thread on the surbuf pads and may try that, but a fellow detailer friend is getting great results with that mf system so we'll have to see.



Rob
 
WCD said:
As I sat today eyeing the black BMW 328is (a car I have polished many times), I decided that over the years I had fallen victim to the hype about "burning paint" if you are not careful. Therefore, I have become a great polisher, but not "corrector" of paint..
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and most watch in awe when they pass it to a corrector and get the reconditioned paint. how did they do it? cutting your 'precious' clearcoat of course. might as well learn to do it yourself.
 
WCD- Glad you're getting comfortable with the Makita and getting that "true correction" done :xyxthumbs



I like the cautious way you approached the whole thing.



I don't use my rotaries much any more, but I honestly believe that a user with the right mindset has little to fear from them (well, other than some holograms, which you're taking care of with the Griot's). Burning paint seems to be almost entirely a case of user carelessness, even if it only takes a moment on certain surfaces (edges, for instance).



That's a fine system, the Makita-then-Griot's approach. I use that kind of progression myself whenever the rotaries are involved, sometimes substituting a Cyclo for the Griot's.
 
Today I had a black full size (double door) Chevy. Paint was so marred, it looked grey under the lights. :)



Scratches galore!



The customer only wanted it cleaned, but I decided to have a little fun and work it a bit more----



What worked best..

UNO with burgandy foam on speed 5 to 5.5 with Griots

I noticed that after the first wipe, that if I did another application, it cleared the paint further so 2x per panel

Then followed with yellow foam and 205- cleared it all up and had zero swirls

Opti-seal



The paint was about 85 to 90% better! I tried the MF system first, but was more comfortable with what I did above.



Customer was overjoyed and tipped generously. Short of wetsanding, I am not sure I could have gotten all the scratches out, but every surface scratch was gone after those two applications of UNO.



Fun, but sore right now and golf at 7AM so hope I can move!



Thanks for the continued input and support!

Rob
 
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