Removing polishing swirls

[alex g]

after seeing my car in the sun yesterday its evident that it has some serious swirling,it was minimul when i bought it , but after hitting it with the makita polisher (with a wool mop)i think is swirled even more.it is an extremely hard color to keep clean and detail.

whats the best attack to clean it up,i thinking a foam mop is the go now as the wool style is well old

help

[team_v]

Check out http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/index.php? forums.
They have been a great help in all my information gathering for basic car detailing.

[Jarred]

con mickey into fixing it for you!

[tanehy]

Try this forum

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[alex g]

con mickey into fixing it for you!

my thoughts too barter system is alive and well hint hint nudge nudge

[Mrk_Mickey]

my thoughts too barter system is alive and well hint hint nudge nudge

I've got NO idea what that means, but if you fancy helping me do a bit of engine work I'll buff it for you

In direct answer to your question, you'll need to wash and clay the car, and then use something with abrasives - Menzerna is what I use day in and day out. You'll also want to use a foam pad on an RO or a forced rotation machine to buff it with, because those lambswool pads can be atrocious at buffing...

[Preen59]

I've got NO idea what that means

It means if you do something for Alex, he'll do something for you. Gees Mickey..

[DMS_Dan]

Your best bet is going to be getting a Professional detail then doing the basic maintainance from there

[Mrk_Mickey]

It means if you do something for Alex, he'll do something for you. Gees Mickey..

Yeah but it sounded like crazy shenanigan english, and I don't speak that...

[alex g]

Yeah but it sounded like crazy shenanigan english, and I don't speak that...

i am unaware of any tother type

[alex g]

so who was it who said cleaning cars was fun.

i picked up a orange foam for the rotary polisher and some meguirs #1,started at the front quarter and worked my way around.now it aint that easy,after a few passes and trips back n forth to google it finally started making sense.another trip to the store and a white pad and some meguirs swirl remover and finally was getting some results.

basically followed the graph below which worked well with the white foam but was a little to long for the initial cut




anyway after about 65 passes over the whole car and 2 days of polishing i think i may understand about 15% of rotary polishing a car.

anywho got it finished and waxed,will see what the week of looking at it brings

[Mrk_Mickey]

so who was it who said cleaning cars was fun.

i picked up a orange foam for the rotary polisher and some meguirs #1,started at the front quarter and worked my way around.now it aint that easy,after a few passes and trips back n forth to google it finally started making sense.another trip to the store and a white pad and some meguirs swirl remover and finally was getting some results.

basically followed the graph below which worked well with the white foam but was a little to long for the initial cut




anyway after about 65 passes over the whole car and 2 days of polishing i think i may understand about 15% of rotary polishing a car.

anywho got it finished and waxed,will see what the week of looking at it brings

Jeez, that looks WAY too technical.

Plus, rotary polishing will unfortunately give you holograms in the paintwork but hey, you have made an improvement! Hope it came out nice for you!