MoparAddict
12-18-2012, 09:31 PM
Hey everyone,
Been a member for awhile, just havent posted in awhile to do school, work, blah blah, life i guess lol.
Anyways, this weekend i had a job on a new ZL1. Customer bought it a few weeks ago, just been waiting for the rain to stop for me to get out there.
So to the point, i was polishing the front bumper with my GG 3" orbital, its the older style but iv only used it maybe a half a dozen times, tops. So im working in the polish just about to do my last pass (had very little pressure on it, thank god) and all of a sudden my backing plate goes flying off and before you know it, i take the paint right off the bumper. I reacted fast as i could probably took a 1/4in of paint off, it could of been much, much worse if i have had more pressure on it.
So after im done freaking out and i go look to see what happened, the threaded part that is attached to the backing plate had snapped right off.It didnt start to shake, no warning whatsoever and off it went. I do tighten all of my backing plates before i start a job, maybe i over tighten it??
Just curious if this has happened to anyone else?
Needless to say i wont be buying another one. This was my first GG product and my last. Thankfully these are very loyal customers and they werent overly upset about it. I cant wait to see how much this mistake is going to cost me.
Been a member for awhile, just havent posted in awhile to do school, work, blah blah, life i guess lol.
Anyways, this weekend i had a job on a new ZL1. Customer bought it a few weeks ago, just been waiting for the rain to stop for me to get out there.
So to the point, i was polishing the front bumper with my GG 3" orbital, its the older style but iv only used it maybe a half a dozen times, tops. So im working in the polish just about to do my last pass (had very little pressure on it, thank god) and all of a sudden my backing plate goes flying off and before you know it, i take the paint right off the bumper. I reacted fast as i could probably took a 1/4in of paint off, it could of been much, much worse if i have had more pressure on it.
So after im done freaking out and i go look to see what happened, the threaded part that is attached to the backing plate had snapped right off.It didnt start to shake, no warning whatsoever and off it went. I do tighten all of my backing plates before i start a job, maybe i over tighten it??
Just curious if this has happened to anyone else?
Needless to say i wont be buying another one. This was my first GG product and my last. Thankfully these are very loyal customers and they werent overly upset about it. I cant wait to see how much this mistake is going to cost me.