Most aggressive product for pc 7424

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What is the most aggressive product that can be used with the PC 7424?



I'm helping a friend resurrect a car ('86 Mustang GT) that has been horribly neglected. There are pics, but I don't have them at my disposal at the moment. The car has sat under a tree for 2 years unprotected and uncovered. That's not the worst of it. Before it sat, his girlfriend decided to do him a favor and wax his car for him. Her polish/wax of choice: good 'ol wood wax. The paint looks terrible, but there seems to be hope. I took my PC with PP and tried a small area to see what happened. I was able to get some reflectiveness back in the paint, but it's far from perfect as plenty of swirls and "crap" (from the wood wax, I'm guessing) are there but it is fading. In fact, perfection is not the goal here (of course, unless anybody thinks it's obtainable), but something to make it look a little better would be nice.



The products I'm think about are UPP, MIP, & 3M Perfect-it rubbing compound. I'd like to go #1, #4, #84 or #85, but those all seem to require a rotary. Thanks for any help you can give.
 
1ZUPP, Menzerna PG, Poorboy's SSR2.5 or 3, etc. Use them with a yellow or wool pad on setting 6. Move slowly and make multiple passes.
 
rockstar_style said:
What is the most aggressive product that can be used with the PC 7424?



I'm helping a friend resurrect a car ('86 Mustang GT) that has been horribly neglected. There are pics, but I don't have them at my disposal at the moment. The car has sat under a tree for 2 years unprotected and uncovered. That's not the worst of it. Before it sat, his girlfriend decided to do him a favor and wax his car for him. Her polish/wax of choice: good 'ol wood wax. The paint looks terrible, but there seems to be hope. I took my PC with PP and tried a small area to see what happened. I was able to get some reflectiveness back in the paint, but it's far from perfect as plenty of swirls and "crap" (from the wood wax, I'm guessing) are there but it is fading. In fact, perfection is not the goal here (of course, unless anybody thinks it's obtainable), but something to make it look a little better would be nice.



The products I'm think about are UPP, MIP, & 3M Perfect-it rubbing compound. I'd like to go #1, #4, #84 or #85, but those all seem to require a rotary. Thanks for any help you can give.
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Meguiars DACP is probably about as aggressive as you can get with a PC and it does a pretty good job on the majority of paint defects. That's what I would start with along with a foam cutting pad.
 
The funny thing I have found is that Meguiar's doesn't recommend anything more abrasive than DACP with the PC. I had a Camero last weekend, and it had some really bad scratches on the spoiler DACP wouldn't touch with a yellow pad. I decided to experiment, and put Heavy Cut with a yellow pad and some pressure on a small section. The scratches were gone, and it left a haze. I followed up with #80 and an orange pad and the thing looked perfect.
 
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