First time polishing with the Flex 3401

[Mike Phillips]

Oh yeah...


Welcome to the AutogeekOnline car detailing discussion forum!


And good choice in the FLEX 3401 - it's a BEAST!


I use this tool a lot because while I love detailing cars I love to do it fast.

[mats]

Thanks Mike, very valuable information!

[sudsmobile]

Good to hear. Now get some form of paint protection over this area and moving into the future wash carefully.

Luckily this is a vertical panel. The horizontal panels take most of the abuse from the sun and weather plus wear-n-tear. So you want to avoid making the horizontal panels too thin.



Just to share,


YEARS ago, I tried to work out a single scratch in a Hummer and a Acura TSX, for both cars I worked slow and methodical. Both scratches were on driver's side verticle panels. Sad to say... I removed to much paint in my effort to remove the scratches and buffed through the clear on both vehicles.

Both vehicles had to have these areas repainted.

Me? I confirmed with both owners the risk and they both said "yes" go ahead and try. The scratches bothered them so much that they understood the risk and confirmed that if I buffed through the clear they were already willing and expecting to have these areas (doors) repainted.


The experience for me was priceless and moving forward I now caution people to

improve defects, don't try to completely remove defects



Unless you're willing to go through the repaint process.


It's called... the school of hard knocks

The School of Hard Knocks would have been if you had to pay for the repairs.

[Mike Phillips]

The School of Hard Knocks would have been if you had to pay for the repairs.

You're correct.

I was smart enough to make sure the owners new the risks before working on their car.

So instead of the school of hard knocks, the benefit of experience.

[JustJesus]

And good choice in the FLEX 3401 - it's a BEAST!


I use this tool a lot because while I love detailing cars I love to do it fast.

Heck yeah. I used two yesterday. One set up for the bigger Hybrid pads, and the other for the smaller Hybrids. Most of the work was accomplished with the larger set up.
Awesome machine.