God have mercy...

**Matt S.** · 08-31-2010, 10:19 AM

What color is it? This makes a pretty big difference as some colors use harder paint than others. There's no way you can harm that finish using the Porter Cable unless you're REALLY trying to. Even then, you'd have to do something stupid.

**Shade Tree** · 08-31-2010, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by matt@autogeek.net

What color is it? This makes a pretty big difference as some colors use harder paint than others. There's no way you can harm that finish using the Porter Cable unless you're REALLY trying to. Even then, you'd have to do something stupid.

Yeah, like dropping the PC on the car ............

**grooveregulator** · 08-31-2010, 10:24 AM

Put your PC on your hand and crank it up to 6 to show him how safe it is, and how little heat buildup there is.

**dublifecrisis** · 08-31-2010, 11:29 AM

I would just politely refuse the job. I wouldn't even wash it.

**mikep288** · 08-31-2010, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by matt@autogeek.net

...There's no way you can harm that finish using the Porter Cable unless you're REALLY trying to. Even then, you'd have to do something stupid.

Like letting his kid use it!!!

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**Matt S.** · 08-31-2010, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by dublifecrisis

I would just politely refuse the job. I wouldn't even wash it.

+1

I wouldn't want to polish out a car by hand, because the amount I'd have to charge to achieve satisfactory results would be insane.

**SupraTurbo94** · 08-31-2010, 02:39 PM

Waiting for the OP to see what the outcome of this was... wonder if he walked away.

**RTexasF** · 08-31-2010, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by dublifecrisis

I would just politely refuse the job. I wouldn't even wash it.

I agree 100%. This is one to walk away from. Would you mow his yard with scissors if he didn't believe in lawnmowers?

**Adam** · 09-01-2010, 06:40 AM

I was going to do some paint correction on one of my wife's friends cars as a favour. She had tried to remove some stains with scotch brite as well. So I did some experimentation on a test panel I had (which happened to be off a BMW 1 series) by rubbing it down with a scotch brite pad. It took a fair bit of effort and lots of passes to get rid of it even with my rotary. Scotch brite tends to leave grooves rather than scratches. imo you won't get far with a PC and you'll get nowhere by hand. Unless you use something with fillers. BMW paint is very very hard!