Trouble with Rupes 4 inch pads

[danlc95]

My experience with Rupes pads is that the blue and green don`t hold up as well as the yellow and white. There is a big difference between the foam cell size between the yellow and white and the blue and green. The huge open cell size of the blue and green must allow for polish to get inside the pad causing them to heat up more and faster. Rupes doesn`t want you to load up the blue and greens with polish, if you do the pads (ime) blow up. I may need to attend a Rupes class on how to use the blue and green pads, or reread Mike Phillips Rupes book, but until then I`ll just use microfiber pads to do the rough paint work.

Actually, they`re designed so that the polish continually flows around the face of the pad.

Their rigidity, and relatively dry nature probably account for their increased rate of wear.

I`m pretty gentle on pads, and try to take very good care of them. The blue foam pads I learned the system on wore faster than I thought they would. They do work beautifully though.

 

[Todd@RUPES]

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I used Rupes pads on 2 doors of my Ford Taurus SHO and they fell apart pretty quick. I`m already not a big fan of Rupes to begin with. But these I received as a birthday gift and didn`t even use them for about 2 hours...
Disappointed..

So those pads where brand new and in two doors they fell apart?

 

[Wing Commander]

The pads looked new but looked like the foam was pulled to remove it from the backing plate causing it to separate from the backing. I caught myself doing that to a pad and it started to separate so I realized I needed to pull on the backing and not the foam or my pad would look like those in the photo. The Rupes attachment is really strong and should not be pulled by the foam to remove the pad from the machine.

 

[WaxManRonnie]

The pads looked new but looked like the foam was pulled to remove it from the backing plate causing it to separate from the backing. I caught myself doing that to a pad and it started to separate so I realized I needed to pull on the backing and not the foam or my pad would look like those in the photo. The Rupes attachment is really strong and should not be pulled by the foam to remove the pad from the machine.

Todd. Yes they were brand new.

Wing Commander- They were pulling apart while in use. It wasn`t from taking them off. I learned that from my Bigfoot. That Velcro backing is strong! Too strong in my opinion. Not sure why it`s like that. But Rupes sent me some new ones. So I will take their suggestion on what polish to use from now on with those pads.

 

[Wing Commander]

Thanks for the follow up I will keep a eye on my pads next time to see what is up. So far they are really holding strong.