I recently purchased a 2002 Audi A6. It is a dark metallic blue. The car came from Conneticut (I'm in CA), and I have a feeling the previous owner went thru automatic car washes a lot. There are a lot of fine horizontal scratches/swirls all over.
I received my G100 last week, and my #83, #80 and extra pads on Friday. So, Saturday was detail day
I started with NXT wash, then used a Clay Magic fine claybar. (The claying appeared to add some more scratches? There were very few contaminates on the clay when finished)
I started with #80 on a W8006 on the trunk. Applied and removed in 3 sections across the trunk. I noticed some improvement, and decided to go for a 2nd pass. Again more improvement, but still a little bit of swirls, so made a 3rd pass. After the third pass the majority of the swirls are gone. Since it took 3 passes, I decided to try #83 on the quarter panel, figuring #83 followed by #80 is only two passes.
I worked the #83 back and forth/up and down with medium pressure. It seemed like after about 2 passes over any given area, the #83 had broken down to a light haze. I removed with a MF and... it looked exactly the same as before. I noticed that the pad did not seem to rotate much at all (based on splatter on the backing plate it was oscillatiing, but not spinning), so I tried it again with less pressure. At this point the pad was constantly spinning, but the #83 never seemed to break down. After working it for a good 5-10minutes, I stopped, removed it with a MF and... again, no change.
Any hints on what I might be doing wrong? This was all done with the G100 set to 5, and W8006 pads (separate pad per product)
I am going to the Detail Day on Apr 2nd, so if I haven't figured it out by then, hopefully I can get Mike to show me how it's done.
Thanks in advance,
Brian
I received my G100 last week, and my #83, #80 and extra pads on Friday. So, Saturday was detail day
I started with NXT wash, then used a Clay Magic fine claybar. (The claying appeared to add some more scratches? There were very few contaminates on the clay when finished)
I started with #80 on a W8006 on the trunk. Applied and removed in 3 sections across the trunk. I noticed some improvement, and decided to go for a 2nd pass. Again more improvement, but still a little bit of swirls, so made a 3rd pass. After the third pass the majority of the swirls are gone. Since it took 3 passes, I decided to try #83 on the quarter panel, figuring #83 followed by #80 is only two passes.
I worked the #83 back and forth/up and down with medium pressure. It seemed like after about 2 passes over any given area, the #83 had broken down to a light haze. I removed with a MF and... it looked exactly the same as before. I noticed that the pad did not seem to rotate much at all (based on splatter on the backing plate it was oscillatiing, but not spinning), so I tried it again with less pressure. At this point the pad was constantly spinning, but the #83 never seemed to break down. After working it for a good 5-10minutes, I stopped, removed it with a MF and... again, no change.
Any hints on what I might be doing wrong? This was all done with the G100 set to 5, and W8006 pads (separate pad per product)
I am going to the Detail Day on Apr 2nd, so if I haven't figured it out by then, hopefully I can get Mike to show me how it's done.
Thanks in advance,
Brian
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