11B250
06-10-2016, 05:38 PM
Hey everyone,
Let me start off by saying that I'm a detail enthusiast, but I don't do this for a living so my experience is very limited to few cars that I own and owned in the past few years.
The last car I did was my wife's pathfinder and I also did my DD Volt and also my '15 Corvette. These were all new cars so they all needed very minimal work for correcting if any.
Anyways, the latest edition I have is a '11 Benz CL550 and I'm going to ask a question that I always feel like I haven't quite grasped....
How do you section a car off to do the polishing?
The hood is one thing. You can probably divide that into 4 sections and be done with it. I guess I'm more confused about the doors, fenders and what not.
How do you guys section off a car to do the polishing work? they say work in a 2 by 2 area, but sometimes that can get little confusing on fenders which have alot of curvature etc.
I'll be using a Flex 3401 for this vehicle with cutting mf pads or orange pads. I might follow through with some finishing polish. The vehicle is "Magnetite black" Which is their metallic black. It does not have that ceraclear coat or whatever it is (I read an article about that from Mike on here)
I've included some pictures of the car to show size and curvatures along with some other pictures that I will probably need to tape up so I don't get polish on them?
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I'm also little curious on how to tape/mask off the plastic and chrome around the door and the heat extractor louvers on the hood. Should I tape the heat extractor grills on the hood? I probably don't want to go over that with polish?
Paint is in good condition. Car only had 9000 miles when I got it (10K now) and it was mostly garage kept in NYC. has the usual swirl marks form years of car washing I guess. Nothing out of ordinary. I'm not too worried about having to fight the paint.
Let me start off by saying that I'm a detail enthusiast, but I don't do this for a living so my experience is very limited to few cars that I own and owned in the past few years.
The last car I did was my wife's pathfinder and I also did my DD Volt and also my '15 Corvette. These were all new cars so they all needed very minimal work for correcting if any.
Anyways, the latest edition I have is a '11 Benz CL550 and I'm going to ask a question that I always feel like I haven't quite grasped....
How do you section a car off to do the polishing?
The hood is one thing. You can probably divide that into 4 sections and be done with it. I guess I'm more confused about the doors, fenders and what not.
How do you guys section off a car to do the polishing work? they say work in a 2 by 2 area, but sometimes that can get little confusing on fenders which have alot of curvature etc.
I'll be using a Flex 3401 for this vehicle with cutting mf pads or orange pads. I might follow through with some finishing polish. The vehicle is "Magnetite black" Which is their metallic black. It does not have that ceraclear coat or whatever it is (I read an article about that from Mike on here)
I've included some pictures of the car to show size and curvatures along with some other pictures that I will probably need to tape up so I don't get polish on them?
4911149112491134911449115491164911749118
I'm also little curious on how to tape/mask off the plastic and chrome around the door and the heat extractor louvers on the hood. Should I tape the heat extractor grills on the hood? I probably don't want to go over that with polish?
Paint is in good condition. Car only had 9000 miles when I got it (10K now) and it was mostly garage kept in NYC. has the usual swirl marks form years of car washing I guess. Nothing out of ordinary. I'm not too worried about having to fight the paint.