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I'm a complete beginner to electric polishing... I'm after something that's going to be user friendly and car friendly.
Do I need to but special polish and wax or is the meguires I'm currently using going to be alright?
What about pads and any other accessories ive overlooked?
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machine polish normally slightly different to cope with the heat generated by the polisher
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I'd agree with the above post, get a DA if your only starting. Takes a bit longer to correct paint but it's harder to do any damage to the paint compared to a rotary.
I've a dodo juice polisher and find it good.
Use menzerna polishs with hexlogic pads.
Depends how bad the paint is and whether you want to fix it or cover it up.
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The paints not bad at all. Just a few swirls. But I want to get a real deep shine out of the Astor.
Thanks for that curt. I'll check out the website
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25-08-2013, 04:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-08-2013, 04:27 PM by Piggy.)
To be honest sean, Im not expert but my best friend is a fully q'd painter n polisher and Ive spent too many hours by his side helping with deep polishing etc....
and I looked at your paint and I would say 99% sure that its been flatted and polished at least once.
the paint and shine is excellent. certainly on front end
....and thus would say apart from maybe the odd bit that needs a abrasive polish by hand, it just needs a proper good wax.
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Yeah it does. Needs a good valet.
Clay and everything. I wanna get a da out of ease more than anything!