Nasty Swirl Removal

naddage

naddage

Detailing Addict :D
Very quick exterior-only, not-as-thorough-as-I'd-like job, but it was a favor to a good friend, and I think the results, though not perfect, were pretty dramatic.

Process:

Mother's California Gold Clay, soap and water as lube.

Cutting pad with 3M Perfect it II, and a little Meg's Scratch X. (Risky Experiment, but worked pretty well to get out the big scratches and deep swirls)

Polishing pad with SSR1

Meg's NXT Tech wax.

Here are the pics:


Before:
 
After again:

Paint is much clearer. Very fine swirls present, and you can see the chips in the hood that I was talking about.
 
Looks nice , but can't really tell if the swirls were removed. Take a picture with the sun reflecttion, just like before pics.
But after all it looks nice, did you use PC?
 
Dimedrol, you're right about the angle. Unfortunately, we were getting the early evening / late afternoon sun, so I couldn't get that harsh light that I had in the before pic. But here's another before pic taken at a similar angle as the after pic - you can see the swirls there, and not on the after pic.

And yes, I used my new 7424, and i LOVE IT!
=)
 
Looks good. I'd say that is quite an improvement. I would think your friend would be quite pleased about it. :)
 
Hey Bay area!! Sonoma County here!

The car looks great did you use a PC? I'e found that you really need a rotary to get swrils out!
 
Hey beemerboy, we meet again!

Yeah I used a PC. Had to use a mix of Meg's scratchX and SSR, with meg's red cutting pad to get the bad swirls out - would have been better to use a rotary, but I don't have one, and we had to make do with what we had =)

Thanks for the feedback everyone! =)
 
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