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Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
So yesterday, my wife authorized several hours of detailing with my new TORQX DA. It was a lot of fun, but I did not accomplish my goal of removing all the swirls from my car. I only tackled a few areas of the car (hood, front fenders, rear fenders), and it definitely looks better, but not where I want it.
Here's what I did:
Wash
Clay
Chemical Guys VSS with Orange Pad
A little polishing with Meguair's ultimate polish on White Pad
Chemical guys Jetseal
Wax
In the compound step, I was very cautious... I moved too fast and didn't spend enough time on it. Thus the results. I still have some swirls and imperfections. The good news is that I am no longer afraid of the orange pad with compound. I didn't damage anything.
Also, I had a really hard time keeping the pad rotating. I marked the backing plate, and I feel like if I put any pressure on it, it would slow way down. My car has some contours that make it tricky, but how do I keep the thing moving?
So what's next? I have all this stuff on the paint (sealant, wax). How do I take my next pass? It doesn't need any clay now. Can I just wash next time and start compounding again?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.
John
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Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
Off to a good start.
May need to turn up the speed up a bit more to get pads to rotate.
Yes---You can try compound again w/o claying---just wash and go at it again. Ideally you would only need to compound once. Then year after year---just do a light polish to remove light swirls. Key here is that you follow proper washing steps for the rest of the year.
To save time just do one or the other---a sealant or a wax. You don't really need to do both.
You can alternate sealant and wax after each wash just to see how things work.
Mike's famous words---(He has many!)
1. Wet sanding---Removes lots of paint
2. Compounding---Removes lots of paint
3. Polishing---Removes little paint
Tom
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Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
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Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
Originally Posted by jdgamble
So yesterday, my wife authorized several hours of detailing with my new TORQX DA. It was a lot of fun, but I did not accomplish my goal of removing all the swirls from my car. I only tackled a few areas of the car (hood, front fenders, rear fenders), and it definitely looks better, but not where I want it.
Here's what I did:
Wash
Clay
Chemical Guys VSS with Orange Pad
A little polishing with Meguair's ultimate polish on White Pad
Chemical guys Jetseal
Wax
In the compound step, I was very cautious... I moved too fast and didn't spend enough time on it. Thus the results. I still have some swirls and imperfections. The good news is that I am no longer afraid of the orange pad with compound. I didn't damage anything.
Also, I had a really hard time keeping the pad rotating. I marked the backing plate, and I feel like if I put any pressure on it, it would slow way down. My car has some contours that make it tricky, but how do I keep the thing moving?
So what's next? I have all this stuff on the paint (sealant, wax). How do I take my next pass? It doesn't need any clay now. Can I just wash next time and start compounding again?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.
John
That's what I did in the beginning, just compound/polish the sealant off and start again
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Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
Thanks for the replies. Back at it soon.
Mike - Good info. Would you mind if I sent you a PM? I bought without doing much research. Even before I used it, I felt like maybe I made the wrong call.
Thanks.
John
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Super Member
Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
John, don't beat yourself up, we all start somewhere.
Don't really know what the VSS product is or what it's supposed to do, but a lot of Chemical Guys products don't do what they are supposed to do and don't do what they show them doing in their fancy Youtube videos.
Unfortunately, you're going to have to go back and repeat your work pretty much from the start here. If there's still swirls and scratches you will need to go back to the compounding step. As far as the machine, make sure you're at the highest speed setting. When moving the machine over curves, it's really just a matter of playing with the geometry of the angles of how you hold the polisher to make sure the pad is still spinning. Trial and error, don't worry about damaging the paint while you're doing this, you can't with the safety features of a free spinning DA.
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Re: Made my first attempt at paint correction... I have a lot to learn
Originally Posted by jdgamble
So yesterday, my wife authorized several hours of detailing with my new TORQX DA. It was a lot of fun, but I did not accomplish my goal of removing all the swirls from my car. I only tackled a few areas of the car (hood, front fenders, rear fenders), and it definitely looks better, but not where I want it.
Here's what I did:
Wash
Clay
Chemical Guys VSS with Orange Pad
A little polishing with Meguair's ultimate polish on White Pad
Chemical guys Jetseal
Wax
In the compound step, I was very cautious... I moved too fast and didn't spend enough time on it. Thus the results. I still have some swirls and imperfections. The good news is that I am no longer afraid of the orange pad with compound. I didn't damage anything.
Also, I had a really hard time keeping the pad rotating. I marked the backing plate, and I feel like if I put any pressure on it, it would slow way down. My car has some contours that make it tricky, but how do I keep the thing moving?
So what's next? I have all this stuff on the paint (sealant, wax). How do I take my next pass? It doesn't need any clay now. Can I just wash next time and start compounding again?
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.
John
Hi John,
You made some progress even if it wasn't swirl removal - you gained some confidence and learned along the way. Mike recommended many good next steps - also make sure your extension cord wasn't too thin of a gauge. I've seen many tools starved of power by using cheap 18 and 16 gauge cords. Make sure yours was 14 or better. You don't want to starve your polisher of power.
ScottH
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