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Gents, I've been searching, reading, mulling and all those sorts of things about what I should do next. Here is my situation.
I have a 4 month old Hyundai Sonata, blue/gray metallic paint, few if any dealer installed swirls though it was prepped by the dealer and has seen one drive through swirl-o-matic carwash before I said no more (about the time I found MOL). I have run it through the local touchless a couple of times and I've wand washed it a couple as well.... mostly out of necessity as I didn't have the stuff I needed to do it in the driveway and the car was getting awfully gunked up.
Having had a fairly good look at the paint, it's not showing much at all in the way of scratches or swirls... just a few faint scratches here and there but I'm not impressed with the smoothness/shine of the paint. The color of the car is nice, it's almost a flake paint really, and I'd like to boost the gloss of what I have but I'm not really looking to remove any of the clear coat just to remove those few scratches as it IS a daily driver and I expect to own this car for quite some time, thus I'd like to have a bit of paint left when I decide to sell it.
I'd just like to have a smooth, dust shedding gloss on the paint and if it looks great too, well..... all the better.
Pure polishes would not seem to be the right choice for me.... the paint is fresh, not dried out, so adding oils wouldn't seem to be the way to go. I'm thinking a mildly abrasive polish should burnish up the surface nicely without removing much paint at all using a PC and a soft polish pad. I'm thinking the green polish/finishing pad from LC in a 6.5" CCS as I have one. I had initially narrowed my choice down to Megs M80 but the more I read the more I feel that perhaps M 205 might be a better choice. However, then there are products such as ColorX and M09 and M06 never mind the burgundy A12 though I think the latter two are non abrasive and probably would do a fine job as an LSP but would not improve the surface smoothness of the paint.
So there I are... confused as usual. There are so many choices, most would be suitable but only those who have actually used these products would be able to tell me which one is most likely right for me and would do minimal paint removal while improving the smoothness of the paint itself. Once the paint is a bit more uhh..... used, I won't hesitate to do a bit of corrective polishing but this early in the game it seems a bit wasteful of those precious few microns of paint that I paid so dearly for.
Suggestions gladly accepted.
Regards
Christian
AKA
Kaptain "Why did I buy this car? The last three were leased and I never had to worry about'em as I planned to return'em anyway!" Zero
I have a 4 month old Hyundai Sonata, blue/gray metallic paint, few if any dealer installed swirls though it was prepped by the dealer and has seen one drive through swirl-o-matic carwash before I said no more (about the time I found MOL). I have run it through the local touchless a couple of times and I've wand washed it a couple as well.... mostly out of necessity as I didn't have the stuff I needed to do it in the driveway and the car was getting awfully gunked up.
Having had a fairly good look at the paint, it's not showing much at all in the way of scratches or swirls... just a few faint scratches here and there but I'm not impressed with the smoothness/shine of the paint. The color of the car is nice, it's almost a flake paint really, and I'd like to boost the gloss of what I have but I'm not really looking to remove any of the clear coat just to remove those few scratches as it IS a daily driver and I expect to own this car for quite some time, thus I'd like to have a bit of paint left when I decide to sell it.
I'd just like to have a smooth, dust shedding gloss on the paint and if it looks great too, well..... all the better. Pure polishes would not seem to be the right choice for me.... the paint is fresh, not dried out, so adding oils wouldn't seem to be the way to go. I'm thinking a mildly abrasive polish should burnish up the surface nicely without removing much paint at all using a PC and a soft polish pad. I'm thinking the green polish/finishing pad from LC in a 6.5" CCS as I have one. I had initially narrowed my choice down to Megs M80 but the more I read the more I feel that perhaps M 205 might be a better choice. However, then there are products such as ColorX and M09 and M06 never mind the burgundy A12 though I think the latter two are non abrasive and probably would do a fine job as an LSP but would not improve the surface smoothness of the paint.
So there I are... confused as usual. There are so many choices, most would be suitable but only those who have actually used these products would be able to tell me which one is most likely right for me and would do minimal paint removal while improving the smoothness of the paint itself. Once the paint is a bit more uhh..... used, I won't hesitate to do a bit of corrective polishing but this early in the game it seems a bit wasteful of those precious few microns of paint that I paid so dearly for.
Suggestions gladly accepted.
Regards
Christian
AKA
Kaptain "Why did I buy this car? The last three were leased and I never had to worry about'em as I planned to return'em anyway!" Zero
) but I have to cross the border to pick the package. The new regs from Home Security have kicked in and I can no longer cross the border until I get my new enhanced ID card which is still going to take a few more weeks, not to mention it's not worth it for one or two items as for me it's about a 2.5hr round trip. M205 is available in Canada from various sources so I may go that route. I COULD order a gal of D151 from someone like Autogeek who does ship to Canada, but after checking the total price it turns out that gal of D151 would cost me US $62.00 landed at my door which makes it a bit pricey, not to mention with only one car, what would I do with the rest of that Gal? 
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