Video: Menzerna FG 400 on Swirled out Black Paint

[Mike Phillips]

Video: Menzerna FG 400 on Swirled out Black Paint

Menzerna FG 400 Compound Removing Swirls

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nuOFdsVqUg&hd=1]Menzerna FG 400 Compound Removing Swirls - YouTube[/video]


This is a before and after video I shot showing what I was able to do using only the new Menzerna FG 400 Compound. The car is a black, 1964 Pontiac Catalina with a custom basecoat/clearcoat paint job. This means it has the same type of paint a new car has and probably any new car sitting in your garage or driveway.


Hard Paint
From experience, I found the paint on this car to be on the hard side.

The paint job looks to be a fairly high quality custom paint job but there's a lot of swirls and scratches in it likely from normal wear-n-tear as this is a driver, not a garage queen.


Here's what I've done so far,

1. Wiped paint clean using Nanoskin Glide
2. Decontaminated using Nanosking Autoscrub Wash Mitt and Glide
3. Compounded using Menzerna FG 400 x 2 = Lake Country Cyan Cutting Pad/Orange Hybrid Pad

Here's what I noticed about the new Menzerna FG 400 Compound...

• Very long buffing cycle with very easy wipe-off.
• Zero dusting with brand new pad, light dusting as spent product accumulates on pad.
• Ability to cut aggressively like a compound and finish out like a polish.

On Autogeek.net


Menzerna FG 400 - 16 ounce
Menzerna FG 400 - 32 ounce

Lake Country Hydro-Tech Pads

Lake Country Hybrid Pads

Flex 3401 Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher

[Mike Phillips]

Before - Swirls, Scratches Hazy Appearance















After just compounding with Menzerna FG 400









Very nice compound... now back to work...

[604_Snooze]

Nice writeup, can you compare the FG400 with other compound like M105, D300, hyper compound...

[DP 08 GXP]

I know its going to change from car to car but would you be able to follow FG-400 with SF-4000 or would I still need to do Power Finish before SF-4000?

[Mike Phillips]

I know its going to change from car to car but would you be able to follow FG-400 with SF-4000 or would I still need to do Power Finish before SF-4000?

I'm half way through the horizontal surfaces with SF 4000 after the FG 400 and the results look great.


Stay tuned... trying to get this all buffed out and waxed before 5:00pm, hard to type on the forum at same time...

[Mike Phillips]

Nice writeup, can you compare the FG400 with other compound like M105, D300, hyper compound...

Have not had the opportunity to set up a comparison test. That takes some time and works better with two people.

[tuscarora dave]

The compounding results look like Menzerna has developed a home run product with their FG 400 compound. I have to say that's pretty impressive!! I am personally excited to see these faster cutting, nice finishing compounds coming to the market.

Just when I thought all of my testing duties were finished and my go to product has been decided upon, the release of some new heavy hitter compounds seem to be gnawing at the corner of my pocket...I presume that in a short amount of time with following these testing threads, they'll burn a hole right through that pocket and I'll be spending money that I should be saving.

Thanks for doing the testing video and showing the stills, you do a great job Mike!!