Favorite polish for soft clearcoats????

[msquared100]

What's your favorite polish for soft clearcoats?? I need to restock on polish and I thought I'd go with one polish for hard clearcoats and one for soft. Most of my work is on newer cars for repeat customers so I don't need a lot of correction. Just something to clean the paint and remove the occasional light swirl.

Thanks.

[AUdakota]

I really like XMT1-2 for light polishing.

[TOGWT]

Menzerna PO 85 RD 3.01 Super Intensive Polish for black or dark coloured paint surfaces, and 'soft' paint

[Rsurfer]

Originally Posted by msquared100

What's your favorite polish for soft clearcoats?? I need to restock on polish and I thought I'd go with one polish for hard clearcoats and one for soft. Most of my work is on newer cars for repeat customers so I don't need a lot of correction. Just something to clean the paint and remove the occasional light swirl.

Thanks.

Menzerna PO87MC, better known as Final Polish II, has the least cut of the Menz line of polishes. Works on hard and soft clears. Use a white pad and finish off with a grey/blue pad.

[killrwheels@autogeek]

Optimum, XMT, and Poorboys work well on soft coats. Menzerna works well on anything!

[mixxer]

3m ultra fina ,
Menzerna Final Polish PO85U, 1z final finish.

[Showroom Shine]

Menzerna,is my go to polish. I just recently used DetailKings Buff & Bling. This is also a good Product.

[SATracker]

So for us new kinda guys... "soft paint", "soft coats" would be ...????? And I would know this by ...????

[supercharged]

Menzerna and Wolfgang 3.0 polishes.

[TOGWT]

Originally Posted by SATracker

So for us new kinda guys... "soft paint", "soft coats" would be ...????? And I would know this by ...????

Using the least aggressive pad / polish combination followed, if necessary by an incrementally more aggressive approach until you find what works.

Hard paint - does not mar as easily, but it's more difficult to polish surface defects.

Soft paint- is very easy to polish out surface defects, but easier to induce surface marring.


For more information see the “Hard and Soft Paint” article; one of a collection of detailing articles I’ve written for DetailingWiki; a series of informative, knowledge based, unbiased articles dedicated to automotive detailing