Hello from the UK

[sss1987]

Re: Hello from the UK

So after a few months since your post Nick, I finally had a chance to use my DAS6. I was reading some of you other replies in other threads, and took some advice you had given to someone else. Seeing as I had just bought a dual action, I bought some Meguiars pads. I opted for the MF Cutting discs (5"), Maroon 5" foam cutting pad, and Yellow 5" foam polishing pad (along with the Meguiars 5" backing plate).

My cousin had invited me to his over the weekend. We had a plan to correct his black paint (Seat Leon Cupra R - basically a mk4 golf platform for those who don't know). He had told me since modifying it he was constantly chasing mechanical issues, and ended up neglecting the paint work over the 4-5 years. The car hadn't really had a layer of wax in that time. So as you can imagine, the paint was horrid. The bonnet (hood) looked like the lacquer had failed over 80% of the hood. The water spots looked etched on the paint.

We foamed the car, then used Meguiars wash plus. We clayed the vehicle, and removed tar spots. It was my cousins first time claying a car, and was shocked at how dirty the car really was, proof being in what was removed with the clay.

We washed the car again, and dried it all off.

Being my first time using the DA, I was quite nervous and used retail Ultimate compound with the maroon foam pad. With a few passes the paint looked better, but wasn't really making much of an impact on the harder german paint. I took an educated guess and used UC on the microfiber cutting pad. I was AMAZED at how quickly these things cut, and left the surface finish looking great. We did the whole car. Then used Ultimate polish on a yellow pad. The difference of UP vs no UP was AMAZING.

I couldn't believe how straight forward the job was. The whole system of having select types of pads, and using the consumer compound and polish was super easy for a novice such as myself. I kept the Mf pad as fresh as I could by brushing between passes.

We covered the car in Ultimate Paste wax and admired the results. The hood which seemed 80% dead, was recovered, and I got most of hood looking glossy black. Unfortunately, the swirls were incredibly deep and closely grouped. Almost as if when he took the car for a

[Nick Winn]

Re: Hello from the UK

So after a few months since your post Nick, I finally had a chance to use my DAS6. I was reading some of you other replies in other threads, and took some advice you had given to someone else. Seeing as I had just bought a dual action, I bought some Meguiars pads. I opted for the MF Cutting discs (5"), Maroon 5" foam cutting pad, and Yellow 5" foam polishing pad (along with the Meguiars 5" backing plate).

My cousin had invited me to his over the weekend. We had a plan to correct his black paint (Seat Leon Cupra R - basically a mk4 golf platform for those who don't know). He had told me since modifying it he was constantly chasing mechanical issues, and ended up neglecting the paint work over the 4-5 years. The car hadn't really had a layer of wax in that time. So as you can imagine, the paint was horrid. The bonnet (hood) looked like the lacquer had failed over 80% of the hood. The water spots looked etched on the paint.

We foamed the car, then used Meguiars wash plus. We clayed the vehicle, and removed tar spots. It was my cousins first time claying a car, and was shocked at how dirty the car really was, proof being in what was removed with the clay.

We washed the car again, and dried it all off.

Being my first time using the DA, I was quite nervous and used retail Ultimate compound with the maroon foam pad. With a few passes the paint looked better, but wasn't really making much of an impact on the harder german paint. I took an educated guess and used UC on the microfiber cutting pad. I was AMAZED at how quickly these things cut, and left the surface finish looking great. We did the whole car. Then used Ultimate polish on a yellow pad. The difference of UP vs no UP was AMAZING.

I couldn't believe how straight forward the job was. The whole system of having select types of pads, and using the consumer compound and polish was super easy for a novice such as myself. I kept the Mf pad as fresh as I could by brushing between passes.

We covered the car in Ultimate Paste wax and admired the results. The hood which seemed 80% dead, was recovered, and I got most of hood looking glossy black. Unfortunately, the swirls were incredibly deep and closely grouped. Almost as if when he took the car for a

Awesome!! Sorry to see your post got cut off, oh and btw:



J/K, but not really! Post some pictures if you get a chance!

Really great to hear your feedback. I have actually never used Ultimate Compound with our DMC5 DA Microfiber Cutting Disc, but I suppose it could work fine.

[sss1987]

Re: Hello from the UK

No, I did get cut off! How annoying! Ok the last paragraph would have read as:

We covered the car in Ultimate Paste wax and admired the results. The hood which seemed 80% dead, was recovered, and I got most of the hood looking glossy black. Unfortunately, the swirls were incredibly deep and closely grouped. Almost as if when he took the car for a cheap wash, they had loaded their mitts with grit first. I wasn't able to get the faded bits out, but the entire hood looked better (more like 80% better and 20% faded sections). I think with the combo I had, ie UC and MF cutting pad was at its limit for really deep stuff. I experimented with speeds too, but to no avail. However I'm not sure if a wet sanding would have been a better course of action for the hood before tackling it with a DA.

I actually think I should have gotten the D300 compound. Using the MF pads was so fast. I will try to get some pics up soon!