@The Guz Portable Cable machine.
This will be my first prep for a coating.
I have no compound or polish on hand, only - Jescar Power Lock Plus & 845.
Will need to purchase everything for - Decon, Iron-x, Clay mitt (dropped too many bars to buy another) polish and coating.
@The Guz Portable Cable machine.
This will be my first prep for a coating.
I have no compound or polish on hand, only - Jescar Power Lock Plus & 845.
Will need to purchase everything for - Decon, Iron-x, Clay mitt (dropped too many bars to buy another) polish and coating.
I’ll be interested to see how this goes.
I recently added:
Blackfire clay mitt
Mckees iron remover
Jescar
845
BOSS fast correcting cream
Meguires #2 fine cut polish
All of this for the boys accord that doesn’t seem to clean up like I had hoped with Blackfire one step.
@The Guz Portable Cable machine.
This will be my first prep for a coating.
I have no compound or polish on hand, only - Jescar Power Lock Plus & 845.
Will need to purchase everything for - Decon, Iron-x, Clay mitt (dropped too many bars to buy another) polish and coating.
Which coating have you chosen or which are you considering?
I am going to recommend the following. Just be aware that you will receive many recommendations for products.
As Mike (The Guz) said, you will get a hundred opinions.
But if you want the best outcome, listen to Mike's advice.
He has hundreds of real-world posts about products, techniques, preps, and coatings. I read them all, and Mike knows as much as anyone on here about the processes.
It is no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
@The Guz I am open to your suggestions for the coating that is weekend warrior friendly, associated pads, and anything other words of advice you'd like to share.
I am starting with my daily driver the Accord, with the ultimate goal of doing the same for my wife's BLACK '19 Outback in the next few months . Just looking at thing the wrong way leaves marring.
Second option for a coating is Adams UV Ceramic Coating. I can not post a link to another manufacturer not sold by Autogeek. It is user friendly with the UV light aspect making it easy for a first timer. Available in 50ml's which should be good for both vehicles. It is slick on its own without the need for a topper.
Third option would be Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light topped with Exo V4. Both user friendly. Exo does take a little more due diligence to wipe off than CSL.
If your paint is in pretty good shape, you might not need a compound... you could probably get away with a polish.
I have to throw Optimum Hyper Polish into the discussion. I used it yesterday to finally polish a door that had some body shop machine marks on it and the rear deck behind the trunk, and this stuff always amazes me. I used a semi aggressive MF pad, and it worked beautifully. The HP really plays to the pad... can be more or less aggressive. And literally zero dust. Given that Carpro is a coating friendly co, I assume it’s good before applying ceramic as well, but you would need a prep agent.
Alrighty here's how things turned out - pretty good.
Washed, Iron'x'd - surprised how little 'purple appeared on a 7-year-old car that spends 80% of its life on Texas highways, clayed, not issues.
I used a Lake Country Orange light cutting pads (4) with the Cut Max. I would say I got 75-80% of the swirls and etching out. I even went over some of the areas a number or times. The pad polish combo wasn't going to get the deeper scratches and clear coat damage. I think a pad with more cut would have brought the finish closer to what I was looking for. However, I also wanted to start with the least aggressive method and work up from there. Then used the EX 4-6 as the final polish with the LC White pads (2). Applied the first Memzerna sealant coat. I'll do the second tomorrow.
I did mine last week when we had a little sun,I used Menzerna 3n1 and think it looks pretty good,as soon as I get some time I will give a bath and put Powerlock plus on it.
The car is way less then perfect with 150 k+ on it and the fact I live on a dirt rd.
I don't think you can use 3n1 before a coating though because it has fillers
“I have trouble with names and faces, but I never forget a car.”
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