Apparently, I have had very bad luck with my pad choices so far. Pretty frustrated at this point, so looking for some information. I have used the LC 5.5 pads on my GG6 and never really cared for them because I couldn't use them for more than a minute before they were completely collapsing. The 3" pads from LC were even worse and are separating from the foam after limited use. The black pads from LC have worn completely unevenly for some reason, also with limited use. As you can see in the picture, one has the holes and on the other one they are almost completely gone. No, I don't use them at high speeds. The highest speed I will go is 3 when finishing.
A couple of weeks ago I picked up some Meguiar's 5" and 3" MF cutting pads. The 2nd time I used the 5" pads, the MF started separating from the foam and was flapping all around. I used the 3" pad just once on a bumper cover last night and it cracked and began to separate. I attached some pictures for reference.
I need to swap all of my pads and start over. I am picking up a Flex PE8 Kompakt in the near future so I think my pad choices are limited there, but I need some 5.5" pads for my GG. I liked the MF a lot, I could cut quicker and sometimes didn't even have to do a separate polish, I could top with 151 so looking for some MF cutting pads and probably foam polishing and finishing pads.
Thoughts? Recommendations? Any idea what happened here? I would attached pictures but the uploads fail every time. Guessing they are to big or something.