Machine Polishing my Car in my Mate's Living Room

at long last it's time to put pad to paint and give my own motor and machine polish and we're better to do it than in roommates living room who instead of watching Coronation Street in there uses it to house his beloved 911 tear though so while I might not currently have a unit or garage of my own I do know an eligible bachelor with a nice warm living room garage so after a bit a white persuasion to shifty shoddy 911 out the way for why not get mine in there to finally get to grips with the paintwork the day before the debacle I spent a fair few hours given the core in-depth decontamination as it was quite dirty following a bout of winter weather and this included being TF odd to cook through the heavy grime and breakdown any protective product residues it may have been sitting on the surface snow phoned and soaked to soften up the dirt and draw out from the various nooks crannies and panel gaps gently contact washed with a soft mitt to remove whatever loose stuff remained then fallout remover to dissolve any iron particles lodged in the lack of which there was a small amount tor remover to eliminate any unsightly Brown speckling on the rebel blue paint work and finally clay towel to ensure the surface was as smooth and contaminant free as possible after having done all that then sods law it rained the entire ten-mile journey over which meant that by the time I arrived the car was covered in crap again Amala should have it in a very least pressure washed it down to remove the fresh layer of dirt as it only takes one stray particle to jeopardize the polishing process if it was to capture adequate footage for the video just didn't have time plus I couldn't have the car going on the living-room laminate sopping wet so had to settle for a good spritz and for a wipe down with a detailed spraying drying towel instead which was far from ideal and something I obviously wouldn't recommend doing prior to properly polish in a car but such is life the details spray white down obviously left some protective product residue behind that I'd work to remove the previous day so followed that win some men's in a control cleaner to ensure the panels were completely residue free so I could see exactly what I was dealing with in terms of on disguised defects utilizing both a scam grip I much too headlamp at a 1000 glooming cree LED night core torch i then confirm the paintwork was alight to moderately swirl with something deeper random scratches so decided the aim of the game was to try and remove as much of that swirling from as much of the paintwork as possible with a single stage machine polish in a single sitting while in addition perhaps reducing the deeper deflector tad a tall order perhaps but I am pretty tall and apparently God loves a Trier now while I know there's plenty of other great polishes and compounds out there I generally favor men's air and a products and their medium caught 2200 or power finishes it used to be called is my usual go-to combined with Chemical Guys hex-logic medium cotton pads which of their always seem to do well for me on newer or very lightly swirled cars are opted for men's Ian's three and one polish instead which still offers some cooling capabilities but also guarantees are really a nice slick and protected finish after quickly running some blue 3m tape over the exposed window rubbers and trim then a set about test polishing a section of the bonnet to see what kind of improvement could realistically be achieved four or five blobs of medium cooked polish were initially applied to a fresh hex-logic pad before being dabbed over the surface spread across it at low speed then slowly worked into it at full [Music] [Applause] [Music] now it's probably worth mentioning up front that this was never intended to be a professional polishing tutorial but just rather an opportunity to share some footage of me giving my own car a once-over with a machine in between tendons or other people's I'd initially envisaged a video comprehensively illustrate in a complete machine polish in subsequent protection but it was naive of me to think I'll be able to achieve that all by myself I'll also trying to film the process in hindsight sir should have just focused on getting say the bonnet roof and wing corrective properly then explain how I dare replicate that off-camera for the rest of the car still if you pick something up while watching grace boots otherwise don't take everything said and done here is Gospel as his practices I probably wouldn't recommend your copy like not washing your car first or working in someone's living room but it is what it is so we're either enjoy the roof rebel blue restoration or see it kicks elsewhere I guess now I've stubbornly stuck with the Flex simply because it's more suited to the single stage polish and I generally on the take the forced rotation helps ensure a decent level of cut while the orbital action can still achieve a fairly well refined finish and the interchangeable backing plate system is also a big benefit as it eliminates the need to carry multiple machines yes it's been around a while and there's a big old brute to keep in check especially when working at awkward angles to try and spell the way of a camera but it served me well represent the best of both worlds and so for the moment at least isn't going anywhere following a thorough buffin residue removal then you can see that when compared with an unpolished section the vast majority of swells had now gone and it was pretty much just deeper surface pitting that remained which was there to begin with but just a bit more apparent now the surrounding scratches have been removed as when slightly as they may look under the lights the naked eye they really aren't that prominence and in my mind at least they're just something you have to accept him flipped in the front end of a daily driven car of this age now that I knew what kind of improvement could be achieved with this particular machine pad and polish combo the plan was to replicate it for the rest of the car taking it a section at a time and check in the work with the control cleaner I match to a cree LED torch as a whence so with a single-stage machine polish like this I'm generally looking to achieve around the third to half the cutting capabilities of a dedicated compound and the same again of a finishing polish with everything in between in one go now obviously without dedicated compounding or refine in stages I'm gonna miss some of the heavier marks and not quite be able to achieve a super crisp highly refined finish but damn good results can still be achieved in a single step with the right polish pad machine and of course technique [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] there were a few panels of newer paints on the car like the roof for instance which have been recolor coded blue from bark and while you should never assume new a lacquer will respond the same as original paint you can of course keep your fingers and toes crossed that it will and thankfully here the recently repainted panels did seem to respond similarly which meant less faff in to achieve the same results [Applause] [Music] once Affeldt had captured in a footage of the larger areas being machined a talk advantage of the Flex is switchable backing plate system to accommodate a smaller four-inch spot pad for some of the tighter areas like the rear spoiler and while from this particular angle it might look a bit sketchy is the diameter of the mated spinning back plates is actually slightly wider than the pad itself I'm pretty used to dealing with this setup now but it is probably worth me trying to saw some tapered spot pads which would help extend the face of them beyond the diameter of the back in place a nano ibrid would also be a great addition for the tighter areas and is definitely an essential piece of kit for anyone offering full correction or complete machine polishing of the entire car but I don't realistically have the time in Wang data I bid them nano of all the nooks and crannies so either hit them with the 4 inch spot pads as best they can or just get them by hand after the main panels have been seen to once the frustrating realization that there was no way I was gonna get the whole car properly polished on or off camera had set in I finished up with a basic and busy over the chunky plastic sills and while they said they look better for it being in close proximity to the ground there was a few heavier marks and scuffs and flicked in them that needed more than a single-stage polish but I wasn't going to attempt that while laying on the floor like a hobo so it will have to wait until I can either get the car jacked up and secured appropriately or make use of the pit in the same eighths garage who owns this living room after recording what I hoped was enough footage to be able to put something acceptable together then I decided to quickly protect the parts a hard manage to give a decent polish with a quick wax to prevent them from going back outside in the nippy winter weather completely naked unfortunately I didn't have the remaining battery life or memory called storage to properly capture that though so your let just have to take my word for it so the not so final results were definitely a distinct improvements and pretty much represented exactly what you can expect from a single stage machine polish most if not all of the light and moderate swells were now gone with just the odd deeper scratch or pity mark left and to the naked eye the paintwork also now looked a lot smoother I apologize for the distinct lack of snazzy after shots you were probably expecting but this one was more about joining me for the novelty of the location still hopefully my efforts weren't completely in vain and there it was still worth a watch now once I've got the rest of it polished out hopefully be making a follow-up video where I'll be talking about how to keep freshly polish cars swell free as the last thing you want is to be ruining your hard work with lazy wash technique so stay tuned for that and thanks for sticking with this one

Channel: Car Cleaning Guru

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 20 2019