A day of polishing.

[Yanayaya]

After a hard day working with my new machine polisher I am done.....and the rain is starting
Enjoy.

[TJB69]

Looks great. Well done

[Dinoboy]

That looks fabulous, been thinking about buying a machine polisher myself,can I ask what you bought/cost etc?
Lewis.

[istoo]

Comes up well.. as someone who ius about to embark ont he same can i ask what substances you use?
I traditionally use Meguairs, shampoo, claybar, then colinite wax makes a good job. Then lasty month in Costco did my usual impulsiove buy and bought a polisher (and a trolley jack) bugger only went in for a Pizza! However, i have no idea what wax/polish you would use with a polisher?

May i ask what you used?

[MidnightXR6]

I used to use Farecla G3 cutting paste the 3m ultrafine polish.

Is a cheap 50quid multi speed polisher i have does the job no bad for what i needed it for.

[Yanayaya]

First off I washed and dried the car then:

1) Used a clay bar with Meguiars quick detail spray
2) Used my Meguiars G220v2 machine polished and Meguiars Ultimate Compound to cut the car a bit (swirls marks were bad in places). In some instances where they were lifted but still there a bit I followed up with Meguiars Scratch X 2.0.
3) I then used Meguiars Ultimate Polish.
4) I then used Meguairs Golden Wax to seal the car. I hope this helps.

I bought my kit from Ultimate Finish and it was about £275 with the Meguiars buffer 6 pads and a selection of DoDo Juice chemicals. I bought all the Meguiars stuff seperatley. I got a free Meguiars case though

[Papa Hotel]

Very nice. That is most definitely not the car I saw earlier.

[Yanayaya]

Papa Hotel said:

Very nice. That is most definitely not the car I saw earlier.

I wonder who it was ?!

[Papa Hotel]

Yanayaya said:

I wonder who it was ?!

Pass. It looked in pretty good nick, just a bit messed with.

[oobster]

Yanayaya, don't know if it's just my machine/browswer but this pics, even when clicked on, are tiny! Makes it really difficult to see the work you've done to your car.

Same for anyone else?

[kmm]

When you click, it eventually open up photobucket.

If anyone is interested in a machine, Euro car parts are doing an offer on the Meguirs G220 v2 dual action polisher. Reduced from £219.99 down to £156.99. I just got an email a few days ago.

[Yanayaya]

I didn't think they were small it should take you to photobucket as said :S

[oobster]

Yanayaya said:

I didn't think they were small it should take you to photobucket as said :S

Yes, but when the image is displayed inside the photobucket site they are the same size on the screen as they are inside this forum (for me anyway) - i.e. clicking each picture takes me to a picture exactly the same size as the one I clicked.

[47p2]

Looking good, sorted your pictures for you

[Yanayaya]

Since Photobucket resizes really big images I have uploaded them to my own hosting.
Enjoy please don't go fault finding no one is perfect. :P

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I only did a few as you can see.

Edited by Yanayaya on Wednesday 12th September 22:48

Edited by Yanayaya on Wednesday 12th September 22:48

[oedo]

Saw you (or the car at least) going up Guild St this afternoon, looks very nice. Used to see a similar Cav on Watson St on my walk to work, may it was you as well?

[Yanayaya]

oedo said:

Saw you (or the car at least) going up Guild St this afternoon, looks very nice. Used to see a similar Cav on Watson St on my walk to work, may it was you as well?

That would have been me yeah, I used to live on Watson Street.


Thank you for the positive comments

[bob1179]

Car looks bloody lovely. Can I ask where you got the polishing kit from? Was it local?

I'd like to buy one and have a go myself, it will save me ages when I do the cars!

[Yanayaya]

I bought the kit from Ultimate Finish because I was getting annoyed going from shop to shop in Aberdeen and them never having the polisher I wanted (which was a Meguiars unit) so it was faster to literally get on online. I went to Ultimate Finish and they sold me a kit with 6 pads and a large selection of polishes and waxes (most of which were DoDo Juice) and the Meguiars V2 polisher and Meguiars bag etc etc. It all came to around £245 but you got a lot for your money and they threw in free delivery plus I didn't have to mess
around looking for the kit. The Meguiars polishes however I bought on my own.

[Hollowpockets]

The car is looking great, looks like the kit was worth the money too!