Alright, First off, you can not get a good finish with out a buffer. PERIOD! So step one.
1. Get a porter cable 7424xp. Best detailing tool for a beginner hands down. If you don't get one just forget about it. Your wasting your time.
2. Get a polishing kit from some place lethal, autogeek ect. This will come with your pads and a backing plate for the porter cable 7424xp. Also should come with pad cleaner. USE it more on this later. Also get GOOD microfiber towels. The more plush the better. Don't cheap out on these.
3. Get meguires m105 and m205 polishes. These are what will save your paints life. I use these and they work great. I'd get these, but what ever brad you go with STICK WITH THEM! The brands have system of polishes in different grades. Do not leave the system!
Now you have your tools. These will cost you a couple hundred dollars. Money well spent!
So you have your black car there looking like charlottes web.
step 4. Wash the car well with dawn. This will strip all the wax and such from your paint. You must have a good pallet to work with.
5. Now you've striped the wax. Clay the car. This will remove more junk than you thought possible.
6. Now you've prepped your paint for paint correction.
7. Get your pc 7424xp with your orange pad. Put 4 pea sized drops on it and set the tool to a speed of 5. Dobb the non running tool in a 2ft by 2ft area to spread the polish. The turn on your tool while with contact with the paint. Move it quickly over the area you are working. You have now primed your working area.
8. Move your tool on speed 5 in your 2ft by 2ft area at a pace of 10sec a pass. work this in a cross hatch pattern. Until your polish flashes. This occurs when your ploish appears to be gone. As in the paint shows though the polish as if it were not there any more. Wipe and inspect. If you need more hit it again. I used about 4 passes and inspect. Passes are different depending on the damage in the area you are working. Do not work the ploish past the point of flash.
9. Adding more polish to your pad. Use 3 pea sized drops.
10. Once the car is done with the m105 switch to the white pad with m205. M205 cleans up the damage caused by the m105. Repeat the above steps.
11. Once your happy with the results which you will be. Take the car outside and look for swirl marks in the sun. If there are any work the area with m205 until there gone.
12 At this point, this is as good as the paints getting. If you still have scratches wet sanding is needed. For a driver car I would'nt waste the money. This sould be handled by a pro.
13. Wax the car, Or use a sealant for the longest protection. I used meguires nxt wax. In the future I will use a meguires mirror glaze line wax. Really Just use a good wax.
Things to note:
m105 gets dusty, if it does sprits the area with detail spray.
This will take you a LONG time so be ready to take many hours if not days to do.
work 2ft by 2ft areas at a time. rome was'nt built in a day Take your time!
You MUST clean your pads right after using. Don't wait you will not only trash the pad, if you go to use it again it will be a dusty mess.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR PAINT! I can not say this enough.
If you follow these steps you will greatly improve your paint. You can do this at home in a garage. Just give it a shot. A pc 7424xp is the safest polisher out there. You CAN not hurt your paint.
Watch these video's. This is how I learned to do this. I have met the Junkman myself awesome man full of good knowledge. Do what he says and you will have nice paint.
The Junkman - YouTube
I did this car personally with the tools I mentioned above. I did it, So can you!
P.S. If you don't plan on keeping up with it or suspect you won't keep up with it. Sit back and enjoy the swirls, because if you don;t change your ways they will come right back. bottom line.
1. Get a porter cable 7424xp. Best detailing tool for a beginner hands down. If you don't get one just forget about it. Your wasting your time.
2. Get a polishing kit from some place lethal, autogeek ect. This will come with your pads and a backing plate for the porter cable 7424xp. Also should come with pad cleaner. USE it more on this later. Also get GOOD microfiber towels. The more plush the better. Don't cheap out on these.
3. Get meguires m105 and m205 polishes. These are what will save your paints life. I use these and they work great. I'd get these, but what ever brad you go with STICK WITH THEM! The brands have system of polishes in different grades. Do not leave the system!
Now you have your tools. These will cost you a couple hundred dollars. Money well spent!
So you have your black car there looking like charlottes web.
step 4. Wash the car well with dawn. This will strip all the wax and such from your paint. You must have a good pallet to work with.
5. Now you've striped the wax. Clay the car. This will remove more junk than you thought possible.
6. Now you've prepped your paint for paint correction.
7. Get your pc 7424xp with your orange pad. Put 4 pea sized drops on it and set the tool to a speed of 5. Dobb the non running tool in a 2ft by 2ft area to spread the polish. The turn on your tool while with contact with the paint. Move it quickly over the area you are working. You have now primed your working area.
8. Move your tool on speed 5 in your 2ft by 2ft area at a pace of 10sec a pass. work this in a cross hatch pattern. Until your polish flashes. This occurs when your ploish appears to be gone. As in the paint shows though the polish as if it were not there any more. Wipe and inspect. If you need more hit it again. I used about 4 passes and inspect. Passes are different depending on the damage in the area you are working. Do not work the ploish past the point of flash.
9. Adding more polish to your pad. Use 3 pea sized drops.
10. Once the car is done with the m105 switch to the white pad with m205. M205 cleans up the damage caused by the m105. Repeat the above steps.
11. Once your happy with the results which you will be. Take the car outside and look for swirl marks in the sun. If there are any work the area with m205 until there gone.
12 At this point, this is as good as the paints getting. If you still have scratches wet sanding is needed. For a driver car I would'nt waste the money. This sould be handled by a pro.
13. Wax the car, Or use a sealant for the longest protection. I used meguires nxt wax. In the future I will use a meguires mirror glaze line wax. Really Just use a good wax.
Things to note:
m105 gets dusty, if it does sprits the area with detail spray.
This will take you a LONG time so be ready to take many hours if not days to do.
work 2ft by 2ft areas at a time. rome was'nt built in a day Take your time!
You MUST clean your pads right after using. Don't wait you will not only trash the pad, if you go to use it again it will be a dusty mess.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR PAINT! I can not say this enough.
If you follow these steps you will greatly improve your paint. You can do this at home in a garage. Just give it a shot. A pc 7424xp is the safest polisher out there. You CAN not hurt your paint.
Watch these video's. This is how I learned to do this. I have met the Junkman myself awesome man full of good knowledge. Do what he says and you will have nice paint.
The Junkman - YouTube
I did this car personally with the tools I mentioned above. I did it, So can you!
P.S. If you don't plan on keeping up with it or suspect you won't keep up with it. Sit back and enjoy the swirls, because if you don;t change your ways they will come right back. bottom line.
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