Well, I thought I was almost done polishing my 2002 white Trans Am. It's garaged, so I've been working a few hours each over the last several weekends. I thought I had good results on my first test section (the front bumper) using the orange pad and polish with the Porter Cable. I ended up switching to blue pad and polish to get a few deeps scratches out and it really made them look better, if not completely removed. Somewhere along the way I moved to the microfiber pad with blue compound and I was seeing good results.
I'm not going for perfection here and the car looks great. However, tonight I had the light in a different position to start on the finishing polish and now I see tons of light scratches that I was unable to see before. They're not horrible and very hard to find, but it's really disappointing considering how much work I've done. I used several flashlights to try and locate these areas before moving on. I also have LED lights overhead and a shop light I've moved all around. No idea how I'm just finding all this.
Sorry I think I'm just ranting now. How do I achieve more cut? And do you think this is happening because it's the first correction on paint from 2001? I used every combo of heavy and light pressure, with very slow to medium speed movement. The polisher was on 5 most of the time, at least twice per section. I then moved it down to 3 for finishing passes with the blue or orange compounds. There's been no issue with dust forming and the polish is flashing nicely before I wipe it off with double soft towels. I've also washed the pads after each use so the polish doesn't dry on them over night.
For reference, I've tried to follow the junkman process, the videos here, or other methods some people outline in this forum. I'm not combining processes, just trying them at different times to see if results changed.
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Well, I thought I was almost done polishing my 2002 white Trans Am. It's garaged, so I've been working a few hours each over the last several weekends. I thought I had good results on my first test section (the front bumper) using the orange pad and polish with the Porter Cable. I ended up switching to blue pad and polish to get a few deeps scratches out and it really made them look better, if not completely removed. Somewhere along the way I moved to the microfiber pad with blue compound and I was seeing good results.
I'm not going for perfection here and the car looks great. However, tonight I had the light in a different position to start on the finishing polish and now I see tons of light scratches that I was unable to see before. They're not horrible and very hard to find, but it's really disappointing considering how much work I've done. I used several flashlights to try and locate these areas before moving on. I also have LED lights overhead and a shop light I've moved all around. No idea how I'm just finding all this.
Sorry I think I'm just ranting now. How do I achieve more cut? And do you think this is happening because it's the first correction on paint from 2001? I used every combo of heavy and light pressure, with very slow to medium speed movement. The polisher was on 5 most of the time, at least twice per section. I then moved it down to 3 for finishing passes with the blue or orange compounds. There's been no issue with dust forming and the polish is flashing nicely before I wipe it off with double soft towels. I've also washed the pads after each use so the polish doesn't dry on them over night.
For reference, I've tried to follow the junkman process, the videos here, or other methods some people outline in this forum. I'm not combining processes, just trying them at different times to see if results changed.
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