Progress on my Camaro SS but need more *Pics*

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BradUF

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Before polish with Poor Boys SSR 2.5 orange pad and SSR1 with white pad. Oh and that date is wrong.





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After SSR 2.5 and SSR 1





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Eliot Ness said:
You're making progress. Is that SS as in single stage (paint) or SS as in Super Sport?
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Super Sport



Here is the roof of the car



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What should I do hit it up again with SSR1 or do SSR2.5 then 1 again?
 
It's not unusual to make several passes (as in applications) of a product like SSR 2.5 and an orange pad to remove defects with a PC. I'd personally rather use an orange pad and a couple of more passes than resort to the yellow pad. Yellow is most likely going to leave some marring that'd have to be removed with the orange pad anyway. It's just something you need to get a feel for, but if the defects are responding to the orange pad I think you're good to just hit it another time or two. Just make sure you work the SSR's enough to break them down, and don't be afraid of speed 5 and 6 on the PC.
 
Been working up to speed 5 and just now started using 6...So I should do 2.5 a few times then do SSR1 a few times? Or switch back and forth?
 
BradUF said:
Been working up to speed 5 and just now started using 6...So I should do 2.5 a few times then do SSR1 a few times? Or switch back and forth?
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Stay with 2.5 until the defects are removed (or as much as can be expected), then go to SSR 1 to bring out the finish. I usually use speed six when polishing, but never lower than 5.
 
Eliot Ness said:
Stay with 2.5 until the defects are removed (or as much as can be expected), then go to SSR 1 to bring out the finish. I usually use speed six when polishing, but never lower than 5.
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k, I will 2 more passes of SSR2.5 then 1 more with SSR1. Hope that will get it the rest of the way.
 
The GM clear is on the harder side, you might have reached the limit of what a PC, pad and polish combo are going to do for you. Still a good improvement.
 
gmblack3a said:
The GM clear is on the harder side, you might have reached the limit of what a PC, pad and polish combo are going to do for you. Still a good improvement.
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Yeah, I think you are right. I have heard GM clear is rock hard and once I put AIO over it will help some too. I don't think I am going to get everything out. What pad do you use AIO with.. White polish or blue finishing pad?
 
I wasted so much polish trying to get this right. About how much polish does it take to do a car usually? With avrg swirls and not my clear coat.
 
weekendwarrior said:
I used 11 ounces of Meguiar's 83, and followed that with about 8 ounces of Meguiar's 80. I also used a PC.
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That is rediculous. Unless you are making like 4,865 passes with each, you should be using no more than 1-2 ounces on a car per polishing step (ie. 1 oz of 83, 1 oz of 80, etc.).
 
BradUF said:
1 oz for the entire car?
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Yes.



Most pros here will tell you they can get like 40-50 uses out of a 32 oz. bottle of polish. And you don't have to be a pro to realize that the more polish you put on your pad, the more work you create for yourself with smearing, dusting, spatter, etc.
 
I use a quarter sized amount of product for a 18" x 18" section. That particular car took 3 passes with 83, and 2 passes of 80 - I was in BAD shape. I really didn't have any issues with splatter or smearing. It went well, It just took a lot of passes (and yes, I did fully break the polish down on each pass).
 
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