Hi All
Last weekend I decided to tackle my daily and "winter" driver -- a 2001 Maxima. I picked it up over the summer and other than a some scratches and scrapes, and possibly never having seen a coat of wax, the paint seemed like it was halfway decent shape. (Unfortunately, the scratches are fairly deep -- probably can't be corrected, it would have to be resprayed I think -- so for now I'm ignoring them.)
Anyway -- on with the story. I clayed the car and got the paint to "feel" pretty good. (Although I've never used up an entire bar of clay on a single car before -- it just kept pulling up more and more dirt!). Since I wasn't doing a swirl removal on it, I went right into the AIO which really made the dark metallic silver pop nicely. I followed that with a layer of Collonite 845. Buffing off the Collonite was the only step where I used my new P/C. I used a wool pad covered with a microfiber bonnet and it seemed to work well. I changed the bonnet several times, using 4 of them by the time I finished. It came out pretty good.
Here's the question:
Today, in certain light, I noticed what looks like hologramming in several spots. I was able to buff it with a MF towel and it came off fine. ("real" hologramming is a polishing artifact, right?) I did notice when I was buffing off the wax with the P/C, (speed 5) that I had to move it fairly slowly and in a circular pattern for it to remove the wax haze effectively. Is that normal? Or do I just need to work on my technique?
Anyway -- even though it's not really brag worthy in current company, here's a couple of pics. At least the finish is smooth and slick feeling now.
Last weekend I decided to tackle my daily and "winter" driver -- a 2001 Maxima. I picked it up over the summer and other than a some scratches and scrapes, and possibly never having seen a coat of wax, the paint seemed like it was halfway decent shape. (Unfortunately, the scratches are fairly deep -- probably can't be corrected, it would have to be resprayed I think -- so for now I'm ignoring them.)
Anyway -- on with the story. I clayed the car and got the paint to "feel" pretty good. (Although I've never used up an entire bar of clay on a single car before -- it just kept pulling up more and more dirt!). Since I wasn't doing a swirl removal on it, I went right into the AIO which really made the dark metallic silver pop nicely. I followed that with a layer of Collonite 845. Buffing off the Collonite was the only step where I used my new P/C. I used a wool pad covered with a microfiber bonnet and it seemed to work well. I changed the bonnet several times, using 4 of them by the time I finished. It came out pretty good.
Here's the question:
Today, in certain light, I noticed what looks like hologramming in several spots. I was able to buff it with a MF towel and it came off fine. ("real" hologramming is a polishing artifact, right?) I did notice when I was buffing off the wax with the P/C, (speed 5) that I had to move it fairly slowly and in a circular pattern for it to remove the wax haze effectively. Is that normal? Or do I just need to work on my technique?
Anyway -- even though it's not really brag worthy in current company, here's a couple of pics. At least the finish is smooth and slick feeling now.
