How to get more or less aggressive?

[fett701]

I have a 2007 Honda Accord that i am looking at paint correction. Since hondas have notoriously soft paint and the damage is mostly swirls. My plan was to start with megs ultimate polish and megs thin yellow polishing pad. The question i have is. If that doesnt give me the results i want do i move to the thin megs red cutting pad with the up or try the ultimate compound with yellow pad next?

So the real question is when moving up the aggressive chart do you move to a more aggressive pad or product first?

[aim4squirrels]

Your question is exactly why Mike Phillips recommends doing a test spot first. There's no surefire way to know without testing out different combinations.

That being said, as a general rule: the pad aggressiveness and abrasive chemical aggressiveness often need to scale together. You typically can't use a heavy cut pad with a fine polish and get a great finish, and you have to take bigger leaps in aggressiveness to see tangible differences in correction ability when using pads. This is especially true when you use machines that have lesser correction power, I.E. a DA vs. a rotary.

There are some products that scale very well to different pad aggressiveness. M205 can gain a healthy dose of cut by switching to a cutting pad over a finishing pad. Wolfgang TSR does this as well, I've found. There are several reports of menzerna 2500 doing a good job of this as well, but I've had no first hand experience with it.

[Don M]

I used Megs Ultimate Compound on a thin yellow polishing pad (speed 5) to do this to my nephew's Grand Prix:

[cfiiman]

I used Megs Ultimate Compound on a thin yellow polishing pad (speed 5) to do this to my nephew's Grand Prix:

WOW