Optimum Spray compound and polish Problems

**blacklightning** · 07-17-2010, 06:03 PM

Hi i have a 99 ford lightning that i try my best to keep scratch free and waxed , i decided to try out the new otimum spray products. Now i had a few swirl marks in my hood so i used the hyper spray polish with a ccs pad 6.5 with the lil dimples in it with my Pc polisher. When i was done come to my suprise it was way worse i had micro maring more swirls just looked horrible so i got out my rotary with a white dual side edge pad and i got the same stuff i don't know if im working it too long or not long enought can't figure it out .... Please help and everything was clean i clayed and everything i even tryed shaking the bottle alot

shawn

**cobalt9123** · 07-17-2010, 06:15 PM

Did you try using an original liquid polish on the hood instead of the spray polishes?

I suggest trying that. As that would be the easiest way to rule out whether it was the spray polish or something else going wrong.

**blacklightning** · 07-17-2010, 06:18 PM

Well i did get it all out but i had to use the wolfgang swirl and glaze and it was fine just trying to figure out if the product is no good or what i don't have any of there other polish kinda turned down with the spray stuff not working all that great

**WRAPT C5Z06** · 07-17-2010, 06:42 PM

What color ccs pad did u use with the spray polish?

**Deep Gloss Auto Salon** · 07-17-2010, 07:36 PM

IMO the I would focus on your pad size.. 6.5" would nor be my 1st choice for a pc/da excluding forced driven machines.

5.5 & 4 will be the pad sizes of choice.

**GOATMAN06** · 07-17-2010, 07:50 PM

The pad size shouldnt affect it to much, i to just received my spray hyper coumpound to find it leaking all over, thank god autogeek has great service and sent me out another one but the one i have leaks if you shake it up

But i have my doubts about this product.I dont know if it will replace the traditional polishes. we will see.

**ryandamartini** · 07-17-2010, 07:58 PM

Was the paint properly cleaned and clayed before polishing / compounding ?

Seeing as it was black, were you doing all this in the sun ? Makes for bad juju when polishing no matter what the product by affecting work time, number of passes, etc..

**blacklightning** · 07-17-2010, 08:29 PM

Yes i did clean it and clay and no i was not in the sun. I think it maybe the product cuz my wolfgang swirl with orange pad then the glaze with white. Why i tryed it with the optimum figured i could use the hyper polish spray with the orange and white pad and got crappy results. I don't get it though in the video with mike it came out perfect. oh well

**C. Charles Hahn** · 07-17-2010, 08:49 PM

Interesting. I haven't had any of that trouble with the spray products.... but I DO absolutely hate the spray heads on the bottles Optimum provides.

They aren't really very adjustable, and with each trigger pull I get tons of overspray onto the body of the polisher, the floor, adjacent body panels, etc.

**GOATMAN06** · 07-18-2010, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by Shiny Lil Detlr

Interesting. I haven't had any of that trouble with the spray products.... but I DO absolutely hate the spray heads on the bottles Optimum provides.

They aren't really very adjustable, and with each trigger pull I get tons of overspray onto the body of the polisher, the floor, adjacent body panels, etc.

Im with ya on that, i called optimum and David said that its a special sprayer, i wanted to try a different one. Do you think a different one would work? other that it being blue it dosent seem to special to me?