what buffing product do you use for average customers

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Heff

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I'm starting to get into more volume as far as clients go, but I'm still doing private clients only no commercial account yet, and for the average car with about 5 years of average scratches and swirls, I have been using megs dacp with a foam polishing pad, then swirl remover with the same pad, and then wax. The dacp with the polishing pad didn't seem to get much out, so I have bought some foam compounding pads, and I want to get some ideas on a buffing compund I can use with it to be fairly agressive but with the ability to go straight to wax or sealant,

any ideas?
 
I have used DACP specifically, but I've used IP and SSR 2.5 which are in the neighborhood of DACP.



*I* wouldn't go with anything stronger than DACP w/ an orange pad.
 
actually the pads I bought are 3m compounding pads, they are almost white in color, I haven't tried them with dacp yet but I wanted to see what the most aggressive product was that I could use without having to follow it up with a polish or swirl remover. I would also like to stay with megs for the compounds

thanks

Rob
 
If the paint was good 5 years ago and now its got scratches, imperfections ect ect, First clay it, what I do depending on condition & type of car I would use a rotary with fen II, cutting & polishing pad on PC. Some OEM paint jobs maybe just a PC because some paint jobs are vary thin and or with a lot of trim. Some paint are vary hard that takes some muscle that's there the rotary comes in with a wool pad after that I use the PC for a great polish. Some paint jobs you can take out the imperfections just by the PC.

Every Detailer does it different because there most be hundreds of ways to do it, like one detailer I know he uses a wool pad to glaze, he works in a car wash there speed and making money is there its at.
 
Yeah, you could use a superfine swirl remover with that pad, and it would still leave swirls...



I'd recommend the Meg's yellow pad, rotary, and #83, (worked very well). That usually does the trick, but, sometimes Speed Glaze and a Finishing Pad is the answer.



Good Luck!



Jim
 
Heff said:
I wanted to see what the most aggressive product was that I could use without having to follow it up with a polish or swirl remover. Rob
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It depends on the paint. On most cars, #80 and a polishing pad is as aggressive as you can get and then go straight to your LSP. On cars with harder paints, you can go with DACP and a polishing pad, or Poorboy's SSR2.5 and a polishing pad. Anything more aggressive and you are going to go from a 2 step to a 3 step process.



Another option is Optimum Polish, I used it with a Meguiars burgandy pad on an Audi TT (Audis have HARD paint) and there was no hazing at all.
 
So basically , no matter what the compound I should avoid the 3m foam compounding pad unless I want to follow with a swirl remover/polish? My supplier recomended following it with a machine glaze, but I'm not sure if I want to just temorarily hide or fill any defects if I'm trying to get repeat clients, although I'm sure it would look great for a while. Does anybody use glaze on clients cars?
 
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