In my experience, it's best to spend a bit more and go with proven quality. As said above, you can get LC pads for under $10 still, just wait for sale or coupon codes - it's not that hard with...
Thanks for that. I've been using Pure, bought 50ml more (I have 3 cars to coat this year), but I wonder if I should get MOHS and put that on the car that is lightest in color or maye the one that's...
decon with Meg's ultimate wheel cleaner
polish metal with Mother's mag
polish paint with Griot's boss perfecting
prep with CMX surface prep
leftover Gyeon Pure evo coating
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On their site, it's listed as "professional" - I would assume the coating is not much different than other coatings like from Carpro/Gyeon for example.
My favorite for jeweling is the seafoam green LC CSS pad with Griot's boss perfecting cream on 8-9mm d/a speed 4 with very little pressure, even less than the weight of the tool itself.
Mother's CMX surface prep spray ($11 for 24oz versus most panel wipes being 16oz for ~$20)
Wolfgang uber sio2 ww $20 for 16oz which dilutes down into gallons and gallons of detail spray/waterless...
Depends, but if you're using a compound (DAT), then you can go to a firmer pad or MF for more cut, and probably still get great finish. If you're using a typical polish (that only goes down to about...
You might opt to use a cleaner wax (or synthetic sio2/polymer type AIO [polish+sealant]) which will lightly clean the paint up (swirl removal) but not so aggressively that you'd worry about running...
I'm doing a 1 step on a newish, black Audi A3. I'm very used to BMW paint. The audi uses Glasurit paint as well, but I've heard it's a tick softer than bmw.
Agreed, start over. Unless you just don't care that much, but then I wouldn't use cancoat, I'd use some cheaper sio2/polymer spray. That is to say, Cancoat deserves bare/polished paint :)