Morning of Experiments: Optimum Hyper Polish, M205, M09 and D151

**Joshua Centanni** · 10-08-2010, 11:46 AM

I didn't have to go into work today, so I figured I'd do a little bit of experimenting with some products I recently obtained.

My goal was to see what 1 step pad/product combination would best remove the swirls on my mom's van.

Swirls

Products Used
Buffer:
DeWalt 849 Rotary Buffer

Pads:
Grey Foam Finishing Pad
White Lake Country CCS Polishing Pad

Polishes:
Optimum Spray Hyper Polish
M205
D151
M09

First I sectioned off the left half of the hood (I had already done some experimenting on the right half).

Then I buffed 4 of the areas using the different products on the gray finishing pad. I cleaned the pad with Meguiar's APC+ diluted 10:1 after using each product. I was running the buffer at 1800 rpm. I also wiped down the buffed areas with isopropyl alcohol before taking the pictures. Here are the results.

Optimum Hyper Polish

M205

D151

M09

The pictures do a decent job at reproducing how the paint actually looked.

I was really impressed with M205, it removed most of the swirls and left the paint looking really nice. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed with the Optimum Hyper Polish as it didn't remove nearly as many swirls as M205 did.

Then I repeated the same steps using the LC CCS white polishing pad instead of the finishing pad (I also excluded M09 this time).

Here are the results:

Optimum Hyper Polish

M205

D151

Again, M205 worked the best and I was disappointed by Optimum Hyper Polish.

Take away:
The finishing pad created better results than the polishing pad. This surprised me a bit as I thought that the polishing pad would yield better results than the finishing pad. I also thought that Optimum Hyper Polish would work better than it did, however, seeing some of the results that others have gotten with Optimum Hyper Polish I'm not giving up on it yet!

I was really impressed with how well M205 on the finishing pad worked. For my mom's van, that's the winning combination.

**snowking724** · 10-08-2010, 11:57 AM

Nice test. Thanks

**SupraTurbo94** · 10-08-2010, 11:59 AM

nice review!! But I think the Optimum Hyper Polish probably works a lot better with a Yellow or Orange pad when correcting swirls (as far as others has posted). I did decent job with the gray pad though.

thanks for posting the results!

**svs** · 10-08-2010, 12:13 PM

Great test, I too am suprised by that outcome. Thank's for taking the time to share your results

**Dubbin1** · 10-08-2010, 12:28 PM

Excellent test!!! I too am surprised with the hyper polish results.

**IID** · 10-08-2010, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by SupraTurbo94

nice review!! But I think the Optimum Hyper Polish probably works a lot better with a Yellow or Orange pad when correcting swirls (as far as others has posted). I did decent job with the gray pad though.

thanks for posting the results!

The OHP worked EXCELLENT for me with a Orange Kompressor pad

(Flex)

**Joshua Centanni** · 10-09-2010, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by snowking724

Nice test. Thanks

I'm glad you liked it.

Originally Posted by SupraTurbo94

nice review!! But I think the Optimum Hyper Polish probably works a lot better with a Yellow or Orange pad when correcting swirls (as far as others has posted). I did decent job with the gray pad though.

thanks for posting the results!

Yeah, as I was typing this up I realized that I didn't use the yellow pad at all! Whoops, maybe next time...

Originally Posted by svs

Great test, I too am suprised by that outcome. Thank's for taking the time to share your results

Sure thing.

Originally Posted by Dubbin1

Excellent test!!! I too am surprised with the hyper polish results.

Thanks, yeah it didn't work as nicely as I thought it would. I'm looking to try it out with a couple other pads to see how it performs.

Originally Posted by ImpressiveImageDetailing

The OHP worked EXCELLENT for me with a Orange Kompressor pad

(Flex)

That's good to hear. I have an orange LC CCS pad on the way, I'll have to try out that combination. Thanks for the advice!

**350z00m** · 10-09-2010, 05:48 PM

how many passes did u make in each section?

**Joshua Centanni** · 10-09-2010, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by 350z00m

how many passes did u make in each section?

You caught me red handed. I didn't make note of that. However, with each I worked the product in fairly well, making at least 3 passes.

**Marc08EX** · 10-09-2010, 07:26 PM

Great review! Thanks for the effort. I agree with you that the M205 has surprising results. I guess it's the SMAT technology and being able to work the product as long as you can.