I want to hide swirls, what to use on black?

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OK not me, but my neighbor. He has a NEW black car and it is always going to get swirls because he wont wash it himself. What can he use? Is there any product that is idiot proof to remove them? Something someone who doesn't have experience removing swirls can use easily? I would personally remove them and charge him appropriately, but it is something he doesn't want to pay for all the time with a black vehicle.
 
Meguiar's NXT 2.0 is a great wax for hiding swirls and light scratches. It's also easy to find locally. As far as removing them. I believe ScratchX will remove to some extent swirls and light scratches.



If this guy wants to spend the money he could buy Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover 3.0, or Menzerna products to remove the swirls and scratches. Along with a good buffer.
 
Meguiar's NXT 2.0 is a great wax for hiding swirls and light scratches
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yes ! I was just recommended this stuff here for waxing my bike, but not for swirls. However, i was pleasently surprised to find it does inded hide them very well. I'd say it hide them about 90% or almost completely. It's a dar blue tho, not black. Black will be tough but i think this will really work well. Mothers scratch remover does well to remove swirls on black. use that then NXT and it will surely look about as good as you can get w/o spending a lot of time and money and experimentation trying to get that last few percent of perfection. Anything better than this will likely bring you well into the point of diminishing returns.
 
nosbusa1700 said:
Meguiar's NXT 2.0 is a great wax for hiding swirls and light scratches. It's also easy to find locally. As far as removing them. I believe ScratchX will remove to some extent swirls and light scratches.



If this guy wants to spend the money he could buy Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover 3.0, or Menzerna products to remove the swirls and scratches. Along with a good buffer.
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Agreed. NXT 2.0 does a great job of hiding minor to moderate surface imperfections on dark colors. I've used it on our Titanium Metallic (dark gray) BMW, our United Gray (dark gray metallic) VW, and my old Cactus Green Pearlescent Audi. My only complaint is that it seemed to mute the pealescence of the Audi. Other than that, it did a nice job of covering swirl marks and light scuffs.
 
Prima hydro after washes and a good glaze. Megs #7 fills some pretty good defects. I bought some banana gloss today from them and it says it hides spider webs too.
 
You can't go wrong with Poorboy's Black Hole. It was formulated very close to Liquid Ebony which was the defacto standard dark glaze in the industry years ago.



Z5 will not fill enough at all, you need a true glaze and a wax to fill and hide. Some waxes even contain more filling properties and mostly used by detailers needing to turn a car around quickly w/o time to polish out swirls.



Only problem with glaze/wax is it does not last long, and if not matched up to a car wash soap, it will get removed that much faster.



I'd stay away from Meg #7 as it's a finiky glaze to work with. Black Hole is easy to work with. hand or machine.



Besides, Poorboy's is not as costly as other glaze/wax combos!



Deanski
 
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