Honda White Diamond Pearl new car prep. . .

**Hantra** · 08-04-2016, 07:37 PM

All:

From all the reading I have done in the past, people say Honda paint is generally soft. Tonight, I did a test spot on my White Diamond Pearl Pilot, and I wanted to run through my process to see if it sounds correct, or if my technique may be incorrect. Thank you for any feedback.

I clayed with the Nanoskin fine mitt, and used IronX. Using my 7424 (non-XP), I started off with some Meguiars D102 and a Meguiars black 5" finishing pad. The scratches I have are very slight, and from the dealer. Car is still new, and has been washed with D114, and several soaked MF's or two bucket since I had it.

The D102 didn't seem to do anything for the micro scratches. I switched to a new black pad and M205. It looked better, but still some ghostly scratches. Tried the yellow Meguiars polishing pad and M205. Better, but not enough. Finally, I used the Meguiars red cutting pad, and M205. This seemed to take out all the scratches, and looked great afterward.

Is this typical of "soft" paint? I polished my wife's single stage Taffeta White Honda with 205 and a black pad to perfection. I was surprised to need a cutting pad here.

As far as technique, I primed each pad, like Mike shows in his videos. Then I used 3 pea sized dots on speed 1 to spread. Changed over to speed 5.5 or 6 for three passes with some pressure. Pad didn't stop rotating though. Then I lightened up for three passes to virtually no pressure. My hand speed was fairly slow. . Maybe 1-2 inch per second.

After the polishing, I wiped the spot, and then hit it with D114 and a clean MF.

Do you guys see anything wrong here? If I use a cutting pad, should I then go back with the finishing pad? Or do I need to use the polishing pad as well?

Just want to make sure I'm on the right track here. Planning to coat with WG Uber Ceramic.

Thanks again!

**Hantra** · 08-04-2016, 09:18 PM

The one thing troubling me mentally is, maybe the D114 isn't the right solution for the pre-inspection wipe. Some of what I saw as scratches initially, were swiped away with my finger. Tomorrow, I'm going to try and use WG Perfect Surfsce Prep, since I have to wipe with that anyway.