Putting together my wet sanding order, I've been away from polishing for over a year

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eurotrs

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Home renovations, marriage, life etc. has left me little time to polish.



I am looking to replenish my stock. I plan on wetsanding 10 year old neglected single stage paint on my old VW, it has some bad etching and was poorly wet sanded after it was painted 8 years ago. I have a bunch of Meguires papers but I can't figure out what I want to buy to compound and polish.



I will also be wetsanding my 01 e46 Bmw after I get some paint work done in the next few weeks so keep that in mind.



HD Uno seems pretty awesome and I think I am going to go with that but I am confused as to which pads to get.



I have M105, no 205 but I was thinking of scooping up some 205 and maybe m95, also help me on the pads for this combo. I also need some backing plates too.



Thanks for the help, can't wait to post the results.
 
eurotrs- If you already have the M105 I dunno if you'd really need the M95 too. If you want overlap like that I'd go with the Optimum Hyper Compound instead and try to do the lion's share of the correction with the M105.



As to what to use for a final polish, try to find the recent thread about alternatives to M205, we seem to have mentioned nearly every conceivable option there.



Oh, and I encourage you to do your final sanding with 3K so the marks are easy to get out. But then I'd also encourage you to think twice about the whole project unless you know you have an extra mil or so of clear to play with ;)
 
Accumulator said:
eurotrs- If you already have the M105 I dunno if you'd really need the M95 too. If you want overlap like that I'd go with the Optimum Hyper Compound instead and try to do the lion's share of the correction with the M105.



As to what to use for a final polish, try to find the recent thread about alternatives to M205, we seem to have mentioned nearly every conceivable option there.



Oh, and I encourage you to do your final sanding with 3K so the marks are easy to get out. But then I'd also encourage you to think twice about the whole project unless you know you have an extra mil or so of clear to play with ;)
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Thanks for the reply. I know I have plenty of paint to work with so I'm not too worried, hopefully I won't have to repaint any panels LOL
 
eurotrs said:
Thanks for the reply. I know I have plenty of paint to work with so I'm not too worried, hopefully I won't have to repaint any panels LOL
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Glad to hear you have plenty of paint on there :xyxthumbs Hope it all goes well. Just be sure to get *ALL* the sanding marks out before you switch to a milder pad/product combo. Don't think "that little bit that's left will come out with the final polish"...it just never works that way IME.
 
Accumulator said:
Glad to hear you have plenty of paint on there :xyxthumbs Hope it all goes well. Just be sure to get *ALL* the sanding marks out before you switch to a milder pad/product combo. Don't think "that little bit that's left will come out with the final polish"...it just never works that way IME.
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I've done that before, learned my lesson that hard way, it is great advice for anyone that is wetsanding.
 
eurotrs- It's reassuring that whenever I mention a concern you have a "been there, learned that" response :xyxthumbs Just don't go nuts and thin it so much that a few years in the sun causes issues.
 
David Fermani said:
After sanding(3000); go with M105/Optimum Spray Compound, then maybe HD UNO for final polishing?
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Just checked out optimum spray compound looks interesting, def adding it to the cart
 
eurotrs said:
Just checked out optimum spray compound looks interesting, def adding it to the cart
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I'll be interested to hear what you think of the OHC. I find it *incredibly* user-friendly, and I seldom get impressed about that one way or the other.

David Fermani said:
After sanding(3000); go with M105/Optimum Spray Compound, then maybe HD UNO for final polishing?
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Think you need a rotary for OHC to fix 3K scratches?



I *REALLY* like the OHC (so glad you encouraged me to try it!) but it seems quite mild via non-rotaries. More like a "super swirl remover" than a "compound" IMO.
 
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