Anal1 said:
So even with the rotary it is normal to have to go over a panel more than once? That is the problem I am having at the moment. Can't seem to get the RIDS out to suit me. Using System1 with the wool and can't seem to make myself happy. Got rid of the swirls and stuff but not perfection.
On some corrections you can go over a panel quite a few times even with the harshest compounds and twisted wool pads (heh heh, just ask
ebpcivicsi about a certain Denali XL, which I recently *re-hammered* in places with the rotary/wool combo...and those RIDS are *still* there).
But when you're doing repeated passes like that, you really oughta use an ETG to check the reduction in clearcoat and also you need to ask yourself if your expectations are realistic. I deliberately leave quite a bit of isolated residual marring in my vehicles as I want the OE paint to last for a long, long time.
"Perfection" is, IMO, mighty unrealistic in most cases; stuff happens and 0.003" isn't much over the life of a vehicle. Two of my garage queens, each with under 20K miles, have RIDS I'd never fully correct...just too deep.
I played around trying to get some panels of my 75K mile M3 perfect, and I overthinned the clear (to the point that it'll be getting painted) *before* I got all the RIDS out. They weren't all that bad looking either, nothing like the stuff I see people here eliminating all the time. Makes me wonder how some of those "perfectly corrected" cars are gonna look in eight or ten years (or even sooner).
