So, I've been searching on the forum and can't find exactly what I'm looking for, but since a lot of the products I will be referencing are new, maybe it is appropriate to start a new thread.
A few weeks ago, I started a thread about my mother's beat up Honda Civic. Since I wrote that thread, I figured a few things out which some guys at Autopia helped me out with, before the tribe had spoken.
Here is my grande revelation... the car is a 2001 Taffeta-White SINGLE STAGE paint job (in case you're interested paint code NH-578). I have to be honest, I almost always ignore posts about SS paint because I almost feel like "nobody does SS paint anymore". Add to that, the original thread I started here http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums...e+Stage&page=2 where Mike Phillips commented on SS white paint often being very "hard".
My questions are now related to this SS paint?
Does my process for correction change, if so, how? I noticed that car had plenty'o'swirls, but now I'm thinking they are scratches (can you have swirls in SS paint???). In any event, this car is in need of help and I don't know if the process is the same or different.
I clayed the car last time, but it didn't have that "super slick" feel after it was done, yet the clay wasn't that bad. I would pass over an area multiple times and the clay (new) would remain clean, yet the surface wasn't ultra slick.
In any event, here is everything I'll have in my tool box when I get to work on this car again. Please tell me how I should approach this car? My goal is to get it feeling slick, looking shiny and getting an LSP over it so it stops "absorbing" dirt which seems to stain the paint (it's like the paint is very porous - if that makes sense).
Here is what I have:
G110
Lots of 8006, 7006, 9006 pads.
Lots of LC CCS 4" pads (orange, white for cutting)
M80
M83
M205
M105
ScratchX
ScratchX 2.0
D151
DC Paint Cleaner
M07
NXT 2.0
Meg's Cleaner Wax
GC Wax
M26
A few weeks ago, I started a thread about my mother's beat up Honda Civic. Since I wrote that thread, I figured a few things out which some guys at Autopia helped me out with, before the tribe had spoken.
Here is my grande revelation... the car is a 2001 Taffeta-White SINGLE STAGE paint job (in case you're interested paint code NH-578). I have to be honest, I almost always ignore posts about SS paint because I almost feel like "nobody does SS paint anymore". Add to that, the original thread I started here http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums...e+Stage&page=2 where Mike Phillips commented on SS white paint often being very "hard".
My questions are now related to this SS paint?
Does my process for correction change, if so, how? I noticed that car had plenty'o'swirls, but now I'm thinking they are scratches (can you have swirls in SS paint???). In any event, this car is in need of help and I don't know if the process is the same or different.
I clayed the car last time, but it didn't have that "super slick" feel after it was done, yet the clay wasn't that bad. I would pass over an area multiple times and the clay (new) would remain clean, yet the surface wasn't ultra slick.
In any event, here is everything I'll have in my tool box when I get to work on this car again. Please tell me how I should approach this car? My goal is to get it feeling slick, looking shiny and getting an LSP over it so it stops "absorbing" dirt which seems to stain the paint (it's like the paint is very porous - if that makes sense).
Here is what I have:
G110
Lots of 8006, 7006, 9006 pads.
Lots of LC CCS 4" pads (orange, white for cutting)
M80
M83
M205
M105
ScratchX
ScratchX 2.0
D151
DC Paint Cleaner
M07
NXT 2.0
Meg's Cleaner Wax
GC Wax
M26
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