POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

[Mike Pennington]

What is the "standard" color of a foam finishing pad?

[rwisejr]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

AS far as I know there is no standard !!!!

[acsuppa]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I voted black because so one told me that way back. I also heard red was standard? Who knows. It probably is nothing. Everyone seems to use there own standard. I'm pretty confident in saying that Tan isn't

[danponjican]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I think he is asking us what we think (our opinions - thus the poll) of when we think of a polishing pad. If I get where you are going with this Mike... yes, I think Meguiars should change their polishing pad to white or gray. Those seem to be the more popular and accepted colors for polishing pads. But my vote was for white. LC, Sonus and Edge all use this color as well as several other smaller manufacturers.

[acsuppa]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I think he is asking us what we think (our opinions - thus the poll) of when we think of a polishing pad. If I get where you are going with this Mike... yes, I think Meguiars should change their polishing pad to white or gray. Those seem to be the more popular and accepted colors for polishing pads. But my vote was for white. LC, Sonus and Edge all use this color as well as several other smaller manufacturers.

Oh? I took it as the question he asked "What is the "standard" color of a foam finishing pad?"

[sixty7mustang22]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I voted grey. I wish there was an industry standard. It would make it easier to explain to people.

[b2bomber]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I voted for black as I know of two brands that use black. but yeah, I wish they'd come up with an ISO-esque color for foam pads too - but then I guess every body would have to comply to a definite number of pad aggressiveness too.

hmm...

how about Brown, Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, Indigo - say, for a certain aggressiveness scale.

.02

[acsuppa]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

You know what I noticed the other day, the new Meguiar's Soft Buff 2.0 Foam Finishing Pad is now black? Hmmmmm.. That's strange Mike Pennington asked us the question and Meguiar's switched there Finishing pad from Tan to Black. I noticed it a while back I guess I never really paid attention since I still have a bunch of new "old" style pads. Yeah Mike P., why did Meguiar's decide to change the colors?

[CAShine]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I voted no industry standard because I really didnt think there was one. I would be surprised if there was. Does the color of the pad matter?

[Mikejl]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

Mike Pennington,

Is the correct answer forthcoming? Or is there no correct answer?



Thanks,
Mike

[Mike Pennington]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

There is no true "correct" answer.

Perception is what we were interested in

[Megafast13]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I think yellow is the standard.

[Bounty]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

There is no true "correct" answer.

Perception is what we were interested in

In that case my perception is what I voted...that there is NO industry standard for coloring pads. In fact there's little industry standard for anything. Lake Country, Edge, Sonus, Flex, and Meguiar's all have different colors to denote different pad types. Sure some happen to overlap but this tends to cause more confusion than it settles.

Sure would be nice though to have one industry-approved standard for coloring...

[Eddie6th]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

I voted grey. I wish there was an industry standard. It would make it easier to explain to people.

I agree with you there.As far as i know,there is no standard?

[Merlin]

Re: POLL - "Standard" Color of Foam Finishing Pads

Agreed!

I WISH there were standard pad colors that crossed all manufacturers.

E.G. When reaching for an orange pad or a black pad from different manufacturers I would like to know (without have to think or having to double check) that one is for polishing and one is for finishing. The orange pad from different folks may have special vendor specific characteristics but I would like to know orange is for polishing and black is for finishing etc. I vote for standard colors!