Favorite Medium Cut Polish!

Favorite Medium Cut Polish!

  • 3D One

    Votes: 10 38.5%

  • Sonax Perfect Finish

    Votes: 9 34.6%

  • Menzerna 2500

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • Rupes DA Fine

    Votes: 2 7.7%
  • Total voters
    26
noorth said:
That's a first generation griots garage polisher i see!! :D I really like mine, better than the G8 in build quality, i have one.
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Yes indeed. Griots Boss 21mm. I have both the 5” and 6” backing plates, I usually run it with the 6” backing plate. I’ve been meaning to change the brushes on the motor as it sometimes needs a slap or 2 to remind itself to start and I can sometimes see some sparks inside the machine. I have 2 sets of brushes in a drawer somewhere.
 
Eldorado2k said:
I’ve seen your posts. I was equally excited back when I 1st got my hands on them. I’m to the point where I need to pretty much replace them all and buy a new large batch after about 3yrs. of good use. They’re not cheap, but when it comes to pads like that, you get what you pay for.
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Pads are pretty important. :)

The orange CCS/HDO is my favorite. I even tried to sell all my pads locally but car polishing is really not common here.
 
Eldorado2k said:
Yes indeed. Griots Boss 21mm. I have both the 5” and 6” backing plates, I usually run it with the 6” backing plate. I’ve been meaning to change the brushes on the motor as it sometimes needs a slap or 2 to remind itself to start and I can sometimes see some sparks inside the machine. I have 2 sets of brushes in a drawer somewhere.
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HAHA!
 
noorth said:
Pads are pretty important. :)

The orange CCS/HDO is my favorite. I even tried to sell all my pads locally but car polishing is really not common here.
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I've gone through similar. I'll use those HDO CCS at work, and continue using my Uro-Tec and Rupes pads here at home. I have a gargantuan amount of the original Rupes microfiber pads.
 
Eldorado2k said:
My favorite is Meguiars M205 w/Lake Country Orange HDO Foam Pad.

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I recently brought back out my Meguiar's products and yes, M205 on those or the yellow Rupes /Buff and Shine still kick a lot of rear.

I've been loving M110, M210 as well. They did a good job with those abrasives.
 
dlc95 said:
I recently brought back out my Meguiar's products and yes, M205 on those or the yellow Rupes /Buff and Shine still kick a lot of rear.

I've been loving M110, M210 as well. They did a good job with those abrasives.
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I’ve got a quart of M210 collecting dust on my shelf. I gotta be honest I don’t really like it. IMO it just doesn’t wow me with anything that it does.
-It can’t cut, or can’t cut as good or anywhere near M205.
-it doesn’t smell good. I just took a whiff and it smells like charcoal briquettes.
-it doesn’t really have any telling characteristics during use that indicate when you’ve reached the time of completion.
-It’s never wowed me as far as shine factor after using it. The lack of cutting ability certainly doesn’t help it achieve in that area.
-Maybe I had my hopes too high, but can you blame me?
Just my 2 cents. I’ll take M205 over it everyday.
 
Just to further this thread...labo leale does smell and look ALOT like sonax perfect finish. I believe that they are similar thats for sure.

I was very impressed with it, i will be using it again the next few days on my doors.

Their acidic shampoo is great too FYI.
 
Eldorado2k said:
I’ve got a quart of M210 collecting dust on my shelf. I gotta be honest I don’t really like it. IMO it just doesn’t wow me with anything that it does.
-It can’t cut, or can’t cut as good or anywhere near M205.
-it doesn’t smell good. I just took a whiff and it smells like charcoal briquettes.
-it doesn’t really have any telling characteristics during use that indicate when you’ve reached the time of completion.
-It’s never wowed me as far as shine factor after using it. The lack of cutting ability certainly doesn’t help it achieve in that area.
-Maybe I had my hopes too high, but can you blame me?
Just my 2 cents. I’ll take M205 over it everyday.
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I haven't really tested it's performance where it was said to be an improvement over M205 - which is ona sensitive finish.

It's performed fairly equal to M205 so far in finish. I also haven't tested the cut yet. It's just that it's overall performance is excellent relative to the rest of the options out there.

But if it sits in between M205 and Ultimate Polish.... I've used Ultimate Polish in a ton of situations where it had the perfect amount of cut, with exceptional finishing. I would imagine the M210 would have a famaliar frame of performance.
 
dlc95 said:
I recently brought back out my Meguiar's products and yes, M205 on those or the yellow Rupes /Buff and Shine still kick a lot of rear.

I've been loving M110, M210 as well. They did a good job with those abrasives.
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So the yellow foam uro-tec is much the same as the rupes yellow foam? Rupes yellow does seem a little stiffer than the lake country orange HDO/SDO. They fit my machine great but i just don't like the rupes pads anymore. Fuckers just skip too much. I catch myself pushing down hard on the machine because they just won't stop skipping. Takes a lot of fun out of polishing for me and i really don't think its a better pad than a standard LC orange in finish.

I even opened my last yellow rupes pad from the wrapper a few days ago lol Beautiful pad but i'm over it HAHA

I would sell 95% of my pads now for the orange CCS/HDO. I don't have a ton but its close to 20 five inch pads.
 
I was just looking for chilly's post lol

Did you ever heard of the waxedshine polishers - chilly? They look great too. If i was looking for a new machine they would be of interest.
 
noorth said:
I was just looking for chilly's post lol

Did you ever heard of the waxedshine polishers - chilly? They look great too. If i was looking for a new machine they would be of interest.
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Waxedshine?

Do you mean Maxshine?

If so then yes, I am familiar with them

I’m looking hard at their new M0312 Mini Polisher


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chilly said:
Waxedshine?

Do you mean Maxshine?

If so then yes, I am familiar with them

I’m looking hard at their new M0312 Mini Polisher


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No waxedshine. Its an america brand and they sell really nice looking DA's. I'm really surprised they don't get mentioned more.
 
noorth said:
No waxedshine. Its an america brand and they sell really nice looking DA's. I'm really surprised they don't get mentioned more.
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Hmmmmm, I don't think I had heard of them before but who knows

There are soooooo many new (or new to me) detailing supply companies that I easily lose track

I clicked on a YouTube video the other day thinking it was a channel I was familiar with and it was someone totally new to me

The guy had his own line of detailing products that I am 99% sure were custom bottling jobs like so many others

There simply aren't that many blending houses out there

His practices were also very sketchy so I immediately wrote him and "his products" off

I just gave the Waxedshine website the once over and the machines seem to have very similar specs to so many of the rebadged private label machines out there

There is probably nothing wrong with them but not knowing the brand I think I would need to see some long term use and reviews before pulling the trigger on one
 
chilly said:
Hmmmmm, I don't think I had heard of them before but who knows

There are soooooo many new (or new to me) detailing supply companies that I easily lose track

I clicked on a YouTube video the other day thinking it was a channel I was familiar with and it was someone totally new to me

The guy had his own line of detailing products that I am 99% sure were custom bottling jobs like so many others

There simply aren't that many blending houses out there

His practices were also very sketchy so I immediately wrote him and "his products" off

I just gave the Waxedshine website the once over and the machines seem to have very similar specs to so many of the rebadged private label machines out there

There is probably nothing wrong with them but not knowing the brand I think I would need to see some long term use and reviews before pulling the trigger on one
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You overthink. HAHA :D

So you have no polisher right now?

It breaks my heart but in all honesty i will probably get the rupes mark 3 if my machine breaks down. Beautiful machines and the extra long cord would be great for my situation.

That or think really hard about a cordless..but those things are very noisy. Probably wear ear protection for them.
 
noorth said:
You overthink. HAHA :D

So you have no polisher right now?

It breaks my heart but in all honesty i will probably get the rupes mark 3 if my machine breaks down. Beautiful machines and the extra long cord would be great for my situation.

That or think really hard about a cordless..but those things are very noisy. Probably wear ear protection for them.
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Nope

No polishers at the moment and until the new house gets finished I have nowhere to do any paint correction

I have plenty of time to decide on new machines

And yeah, I pretty much always overthink things

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Thanks Chilly! You just cost me $237 Scratch that $201 with DRAKE15 coupon at Maxshine direct.
Love that it comes with everything! I did watch allot of reviews, now that it's been out 6 months. It scores high!
 
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