imported_Dave KG
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Another Each One Teach One PC session today! 
Took a trip up to Montrose to visit Malcom44 from the forum and Tommy (Bainie from DW) popped down from Aberdeen for the day too... Not intending to do a full detail here, the point of the day being to show various products on the PC, application techniques to get the best from the products and the tool. Both cars - an Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Astra VXR both in black - were demonstrated on.
Audi A4
This car was a little over a year old and in very good condition with only light swilrs visible in the paint:
As the swilrs were just light, I decided to first demonstrate good old Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze, using a Sonus SFX-2 enhance pad. Now Audi paint is very hard, but as always with a detail, you should always trial a light abbrassive product first of all to see if it will generate the results. Also, I have personally found #80 to have much more defect removal power than most people give it credit for!
So, spread on speed 3 and then several passes on speed 5 with medium pressure to fully break down the product. They key of the demo here was to show Malcom and Tommy when the product had truly broken down, taking many more passes than you would first expect... Once fully broken down (residue gone clear), it was wiped off very quickly and easily with a Costco microfibre - the result:
The light swilrs removed, no need for heavy abbrassives - just techniqe and thoroughly breaking down the product.
There were however areas of deeper scrathces on the car so for these, I demonstrated Intensive Polish which Malcom had pruchased a bottle of - spread on speed 3, then two or three passes on speed 5 with no pressure, then a few more passes on speed 6 to fully break down the product with light to medium pressure for the final passes. A fast cut method, but it proved effective on the light swirls and the deeper ones. Malcom then finished the bonnet and the two front wings using the Intensive Polish:
I also demonstrated Power Gloss slow cut method, following with IP to remove micromarring.
Following defect removal on the bonnet and wings, I demonstrated one of my favourite products, especially for black cars: Meguiars #7 Show Car Glaze. First of all applied by hand to half the bonnet, Meguiars foam applicator and gently worked into the finish and removed with a Costco microfibre, several passes. Many issues with #7 residue with difficult removal, the trick is not to remove it all in one go but make two or three passes with the microfibre towel: in the first pass, aim to remove some of the oils residue, then more in the next and if necessary make a third. #7 skins, so you have to break up the skin to remove. Change wipe direction with each pass. Then finish with a clean side of the microfibre (use two mfs if doing a whole car) by gently buffing to a high shine. Both Tommy and Malcome noticed the difference in the finish between the #7'd section of the bonnet and the non-#7'd bit - the colour was deeper and the reflection glossier on the #7 side. On the other half I shows PC application - spread at speed 3, then three passes at speed 5 with only light pressure. Residue removed as above. Malsome then completed the wings, the results of this process:
Took a trip up to Montrose to visit Malcom44 from the forum and Tommy (Bainie from DW) popped down from Aberdeen for the day too... Not intending to do a full detail here, the point of the day being to show various products on the PC, application techniques to get the best from the products and the tool. Both cars - an Audi A4 and a Vauxhall Astra VXR both in black - were demonstrated on.
Audi A4
This car was a little over a year old and in very good condition with only light swilrs visible in the paint:
As the swilrs were just light, I decided to first demonstrate good old Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze, using a Sonus SFX-2 enhance pad. Now Audi paint is very hard, but as always with a detail, you should always trial a light abbrassive product first of all to see if it will generate the results. Also, I have personally found #80 to have much more defect removal power than most people give it credit for!
So, spread on speed 3 and then several passes on speed 5 with medium pressure to fully break down the product. They key of the demo here was to show Malcom and Tommy when the product had truly broken down, taking many more passes than you would first expect... Once fully broken down (residue gone clear), it was wiped off very quickly and easily with a Costco microfibre - the result:
The light swilrs removed, no need for heavy abbrassives - just techniqe and thoroughly breaking down the product.
There were however areas of deeper scrathces on the car so for these, I demonstrated Intensive Polish which Malcom had pruchased a bottle of - spread on speed 3, then two or three passes on speed 5 with no pressure, then a few more passes on speed 6 to fully break down the product with light to medium pressure for the final passes. A fast cut method, but it proved effective on the light swirls and the deeper ones. Malcom then finished the bonnet and the two front wings using the Intensive Polish:
I also demonstrated Power Gloss slow cut method, following with IP to remove micromarring.
Following defect removal on the bonnet and wings, I demonstrated one of my favourite products, especially for black cars: Meguiars #7 Show Car Glaze. First of all applied by hand to half the bonnet, Meguiars foam applicator and gently worked into the finish and removed with a Costco microfibre, several passes. Many issues with #7 residue with difficult removal, the trick is not to remove it all in one go but make two or three passes with the microfibre towel: in the first pass, aim to remove some of the oils residue, then more in the next and if necessary make a third. #7 skins, so you have to break up the skin to remove. Change wipe direction with each pass. Then finish with a clean side of the microfibre (use two mfs if doing a whole car) by gently buffing to a high shine. Both Tommy and Malcome noticed the difference in the finish between the #7'd section of the bonnet and the non-#7'd bit - the colour was deeper and the reflection glossier on the #7 side. On the other half I shows PC application - spread at speed 3, then three passes at speed 5 with only light pressure. Residue removed as above. Malsome then completed the wings, the results of this process:
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