Another DA question

Slattsy

Lads,

If a DA is used once on a car to remove swirls et all, and car is subsequently washed / cared for properly after said DA'ing, should the car in essence stay swirl free??

Sidewayslarry

Yeah, once the compound used is filler free, and your wash technique is 100% then it should stay that way indefinitely

The problem with that theory is that no matter how careful you are washing your car, there are so many variables at play it makes it impossible to wash without some class of swirls coming back into the paint.

A gust of wind blowing a bit of dust onto the wet rinsed bodywork as you are drying could mean dragging this dust around with your drying towel, a bit of dust blowing into your wash mitt or drying towel, road grit and muck flying up the side of the car on our country roads, someone leaning against the car in a car park, its just a horrible loosing battle

If you accept that you are going to pick up swirl marks on a car it makes it much easier to accept when they appear

Slattsy

Good man Larry.

The reason i asked was because i was thinking of purchasing a DA - but my Father thinks he can get a loan of one through a buddy of his - panel beater.
So with the answer you gave, it'll mean saving a few bob!!

I'd imagine the pad will be in good nick from this fella, so what product would you recommend for a one off DA use?
Cheers.

Ded_Zebra

Note that I'm not an expert and these are the only polishes/compounds that I have used with a DA but in terms of value (especially if you are only going to do one car once) you won't beat this!

http://www.cleancar.ie/chemical-guys-v-line-polish-and-compound-sample-kit-4oz.html

For the price of one full bottle of polish you get all you could need no matter what your paint is like for the same price

Sidewayslarry

Slattsy wrote: »

Good man Larry.

The reason i asked was because i was thinking of purchasing a DA - but my Father thinks he can get a loan of one through a buddy of his - panel beater.
So with the answer you gave, it'll mean saving a few bob!!

I'd imagine the pad will be in good nick from this fella, so what product would you recommend for a one off DA use?
Cheers.

The only thing to be careful of is that most panel beaters use Rotary polishers so there is a good chance you will be lumped with a rotary. Still a good job but you will just have to be a lot more careful and watch the machine speeds and heat of the paint.

The other thing to be careful of is to make sure that he doesn't just give you a cutting pad, make sure there is a finishing pad in there too or you will end up with holograms all over your car and it will look worse than when you started

Ded_Zebra hit the nail on the head with the Chemical Guys compound kit, should get you sorted

Slattsy

Shpot on!

Is there enough in that set to do two cars?

vectra

Sidewayslarry wrote: »

Ded_Zebra hit the nail on the head with the Chemical Guys compound kit, should get you sorted

Hi Larry
How do you compare the cg polished to the menz ones?

cheers

Sidewayslarry

vectra wrote: »

Hi Larry
How do you compare the cg polished to the menz ones?

cheers

I was always a huge Menzerna fan, I've been using it for over 6 years now pretty much exclusively. I would always try out new products that came onto the market but never found one to match Menzerna. In the past few months I tried out Scholl Concepts and found it good, but the finishing was just a little bit off. When Chemical Guys released the new V Line range of compounds they sent us over the samples and I didn't hold much hope for them because I have tried all their previous attempts at compound and none impressed me. I had a 5 series in here in the workshop one day, and a cat used to sleep on the bonnet of it fairly regularly, so the bonnet, wings and front bumper were all badly scratched from the cats claws. I wet-sanded the whole lot down and decided to try out the V Line polishes on it and I was shocked with how good they actually were. Finished up like glass in 3 stages. They really surprised me. I would put them right up there with Menzerna, and Scoll Concepts closely behind. Possibly 3M then in behind Scoll. Not a fan of the Meguires stuff at all, and find the Autobrite compound very dusty and hard to finish. All personal opinion alright and everyone will be different but thats my experience anyway

Curran

I find Scholl excellent. Especially S3 for correction. Depends on the paint for what I use to finish. Just curious; are you using Scholl pads with Scholl polish?

The V range is nice...I like the V38 as its a very nice polish for finishing as it can be worked for quite a while without drying out.

Sidewayslarry

Curran wrote: »

I find Scholl excellent. Especially S3 for correction. Depends on the paint for what I use to finish. Just curious; are you using Scholl pads with Scholl polish?

The V range is nice...I like the V38 as its a very nice polish for finishing as it can be worked for quite a while without drying out.

No never used the Scholl pads, although I do have a set of them here for testing, waiting for an engine to be fitted to my E36 and once she's rolling again I will test them out on her. She needs a full correction so have loads of new bits and bobs to test out on her

Curran

Found the Scholl pads and polish to be very good, but when not on Scholl pads to be a bit meh!!
S3 on a blue pad I found excellent for correction and didnt need a huge amount of refining afterwards.