VM by Hand or PC?

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Just got my VM yesterday and I'm dying to try it. My first thought is, WOW, it's very thin. So I was a little worried that it might be too thin for application by PC. I was going to use my black finishing pad.



What will achieve the best results, PC or Hand?
 
PC with a polishing pad and crank it up to 6. VM soaks into the pad very quickly and you don't get any product fling.
 
VM by Hand or PC?
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Heh heh, when I first saw this I wanted to respond "yes" :D



Yeah, use the polishing pad instead of the finishing one unless you're dealing with some *very* clean, unusually soft paint. The polishing pad won't cause any problems and is less likely to get gummed up with the VM and whatever it cleans off. I used a white "finger" polishing pad on the super-soft XJS lacquer and it worked out great.



Keep shaking the bottle every time you apply it to the pad so it doesn't start to re-separate on you.
 
I just did my car by hand and it turned out awesome.



Now, if I had PC pads on hand, I certainly would of used them.



BTW..you guys post on used "white" pad, etc...whose product line of pad are you referencing ?



I have noticed different pads/colors depends on manufacturer, i.e., Sonus, TOL variety, etc.



Regards,
 
it'll work great either by hand or PC. i've used VM more for a glaze than for cleaning, and have done both methods. the one time i tried it with a PC and a polishing pad, it looked like it was creating more micro-swirls, but that could have been more my error than anything. so i now use it with a PC and a finishing product, and it works great. i don't have to use a lot, maybe a couple "splashes" for the first few times, then just a few drops afterwards.



regarding pad colors, it is different between manufacturers, but the Lake County pads are the ones where yellow - cutting pad, white - polishing pad, grey - finishing pad.
 
I was more interest in it's glazing properties than it's cleaning/polishing ability, so I used the black (grey) finishing pad. Very pleased with the results.



A couple of observations:

1) I think I used about two tablespoons to do the entire car. This bottle is gonna last a LOOOONG time.

2) Yes, it separates within a few seconds and I had to close/shake it for each application.

3) I had used SSR2.5 and SSR1 before I applied the VM and the SSR1 left the surface very bright. The VM kinda mellowed it out a touch and slightly darkened the color (paint color is white). Somthing I may not have noticed if the color wasn't white.



It did a good job of 'smoothing' out the surface and filling some of those fine swirls. I like it!
 
hirosh said:
.. the one time i tried it with a PC and a polishing pad, it looked like it was creating more micro-swirls, but that could have been more my error than anything. so i now use it with a PC and a finishing product, and it works great...
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Interesting about the micromarring. I dunno if I'd blame user-error, there's not much of a learning curve to VM. Must just be your paint, though I'm sorta :confused: about how it could do that on your car and not on my Jags (softest modern auto paint I've ever worked).
 
SpoiledMan said:
PC with a polishing pad.
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