Rupees polishing pads

[Brendon]

Happy New Year to you all.
Im looking at buying a Rupes polisher or two. I have a dumb question for all the experts that use this brand.
can the Rupes pads be washed and reused or do you throw away afterwards?
here In New Zealand we have to use Rupes pads and Polish for a one year warranty on the machine witch I think is load of rubbish.
Brendon

HAPPY NEW YEAR

[Zubair]

Can be reused after washing. The thing with Rupes pads is use a few and change often as they not durable at all. The GG,LC,BnS last much much longer and are cheaper. Really hope 2017 Rupes changes their foams as its long overdue.

[GSKR]

Happy New Year to you all.
Im looking at buying a Rupes polisher or two. I have a dumb question for all the experts that use this brand.
can the Rupes pads be washed and reused or do you throw away afterwards?
here In New Zealand we have to use Rupes pads and Polish for a one year warranty on the machine witch I think is load of rubbish.
Brend
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Buy a flex 3401 much better machine in my own opinion.

[Rsurfer]

Happy New Year to you all.
Im looking at buying a Rupes polisher or two. I have a dumb question for all the experts that use this brand.
can the Rupes pads be washed and reused or do you throw away afterwards?
here In New Zealand we have to use Rupes pads and Polish for a one year warranty on the machine witch I think is load of rubbish.
Brendon

HAPPY NEW YEAR

How would they know that you didn't use their pads and polishes?

[DaveT435]

How would they know that you didn't use their pads and polishes?

That's what I was wondering. I guess you would have to buy a few pads and a couple bottles of polish...then use whatever you want. If there's ever any question you bought some of their products so your covered.

[The Guz]

They can be washed out and reused. If you have UHS pads the best way to wash them is under warm water.

[rlmccarty2000]

Wash and reuse. I like their yellow and white pads. The blue and green, not so much. Go with the Rupes microfiber pads for cutting and finish with the yellow and white. And if that is truly Rupes policy there, complain loudly. I use many different manufacturers pads with my Rupes machines with no problems.

[Matt@Revive]

Wash and reuse.
Rupes blue microfiber, yellow foam, white foam. These are my 3 go-to pads that i use nearly everyday.

[Whitewater25]

The UHS pads are a bear to clean,if they didn't work so well,I would try something else

[dlc95]

Like others mentioned here, I use the blue and yellow microfiber pads / yellow, and white foams for the most part.

I had some blue foam pads, and they were awesome! Somehow, I convinced myself to sell them, and now I have to replace them....

I say get a couple.

Be warned that you will find best results using the system like they advise. You might see the blue foam deteriorate as you learn to keep the pressure off. I know mine started to wear away after a few uses, but nothing catastrophic. I also had the backing on a couple yellow pads weaken. The foam was in great shape though.

I have decided that I will be rounding out the system and adding Quarz/Green pads, UHS system, and replenish the blue foam pads that I sold as the busy season approaches.

I'm going to try to exclusively use the Rupes system starting January 1, 2017.