accidently hit enter, and it will time out if I try to edit the first post.

 

I had a little time this morning to attack my mothers 1998 Windstar. Horribly swirled, scratched, and generally worn..

I also wanted to try out my Porter Cable 7424, so I ran a bead of masling tape down the hood and taped off half of the hood, I wanted before and after results, I wasn't going to spend 6 ours on the old van. However having all of thoes swirls and me with my porter cable I couldn't resist. Here are the pics I have taken, it really didn't take too long to get the results. I was only using the polishing pad and the buffing pad.

-I first washed with NXT wash
-clayed the hood
-DACP #83/ polishing pad
-SFP #82 / polishing pad
-and finally a coat of NXT / buffing pad.

If I spent more time I would have been able to get all of the swirls out, but I wanted to get a idea on time spent, for future quotes... I didn't want to spend three hours on half a hood.

Tell me what you think:









Funny thing is I left it like that. She had to take the car for the afternoon.

 

Second picture shows it the best. You can really tell the difference. Nice job. My TL is waiting in the driveway for you...

 

Your driveway isn't too close to my driveway though. lol

if you're up for a road trip PM me.. lol

 

looks good! what type of compound or polish did you use?

 

-I first washed with NXT wash
-clayed the hood
-DACP #83/ polishing pad
-SFP #82 / polishing pad
-and finally a coat of NXT / buffing pad


so the compound/polish was the Dual Action Cleaner Polish (DACP) followed up by Swirl Free Polish SFP.

 

Looks good man !!! Nice work with the masking. I saw your post on Autopia

 

Ya, considering it was my first time using the Porter. I wanted my "work" critiqued by the pro's at autopia. Like I mentioned in the post on Autopia, the roughest pad I used was a polishing pad and worked softer.. now after some advice from the autopia pro's, I will finish the van, and tackle other situations like this by first using the cutting pad and then the polishing pad and finally the finishing/buffing pad.. I didn't want to make the typical mistake of using an abrasive or a pad that is too rough and scuffing the surface.


Much easier to see the results on a dark hurting paint job then it is on a well maintained Silver paint (my TL)..

Thanks for the compliment. It's Apperciated..

 

Yeah, you did the right approach. I would've started with a polishing pad too. A cutting pad will probably help you out more. I'm not sold on the wool pad yet. Just seem too agressive for me. Maybe I'll try it on a 10+ year old car one of these days. PCs rock !!!