carpro essance plus 3 pad finish is it possible ?

[Donalds detailing]

Looking to use carpro essance plus and lake country pads

have lake country pad orange white and black,

can i do a 3 step polish and finish using essance ?

looking to see if any one has any advice on this as im doing it on a black superduty



thanks guys and gals

[Rsurfer]

You do know that Essence Plus has no cut/abrasives? It does have some durable resins to hide some micro marring.

[MattPersman]

You need regular essence on a MF or yellow rupes, green b&s, burg megs etc. but might need much more cut than it can provide with a compound

Think of essence plus as like a healing topper for your already coated car. Say 9 months down the road it’s pretty marred from poor washing / drying or life in general maybe you have kids that get rough with it. You can go over it with plus to try to make it look a little better


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[Donalds detailing]

So i should look at adding carpro fixer compound to my collection as the heavier cut with the orange pad, follow with carpro reflect high gloss polish with the white pad and then finish with eh essance plus and black pad. first time diving deep into the paint correction, my addiction to detailing started with sanding and polish stainless and aluminium on 2 show semis, 3 to 4 stage cuts and tons of sanding from 80 grit to 3000 grit.

I appreciate all the feed back

[DaveT435]

Welcome to AG. CarPro Reflect is a great polish. I've never been a big fan of Fixer. I had so many other compounds I really didn't give it much of a chance. What are you working on? What kind of polisher, or are you going at it by hand?

[Rsurfer]

[QUOTE=Donalds detailing;1533037]So i should look at adding carpro fixer compound to my collection as the heavier cut with the orange pad, follow with carpro reflect high gloss polish with the white pad and then finish with eh essance plus and black pad. first time diving deep into the paint correction, my addiction to detailing started with sanding and polish stainless and aluminium on 2 show semis, 3 to 4 stage cuts and tons of sanding from 80 grit to 3000 grit.
I appreciate all the feed back[/QUOTE



Just remember if you use Essence Plus you cannot coat over it.

[The Guz]

You may want to look at other compounds and polishes.

Fixer was supposedly updated recently. Never used it myself.

Tried Reflect and I was not impressed with it. Short working time and dusting is what turned me off about it.

[MattPersman]

The carpro liquids are short working time indeed you just have to try to get in that mind set going in

There are loads of good compounds out there. You could go UC then essence then your coating if that’s your ultimate goal


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[Donalds detailing]

Ill be using a portacable with 6 inch pads and my 3 inch air powered orbital, so sounds like ill do the final pass with the essance since i have it already with the black pad. what compound would you suggest for a decent cutting compound for use with the orange pad/ white pad. Or would i be best to use a heavier compund with the white pad and finish with the black pad and essance.

[MattPersman]

White pads are typically polishing pads.

Orange is fair cut as far as LC goes.

Just depends on defect and what you are trying to correct. You have to do some test spots.

Lots of people like lots of different compounds. Megs Ultimate compound is a good compound it’s available widely probably use a megs burg pad with it if you can get one of those

A 5 inch backing plate with 5” pads would work quicker than the 6


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