Am I on the right track?

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peteyturbo

Guest
This will be my first time usiing professional grade products on my car. For now I am going to buy what I think I am going to need and within the next two weeks I will be purchasing the porter cable and necessary pads so I'll try to just stick with the product discussion. A little backround on the history of my paint first.
I bought the car new in 2005, its a Graphite Gray evo, during that time I have only hand washed it and have done a clay, paint cleaner, polish and wax using meguiers products and I did not think they were doing an adequate job for the time I was spending, I was also using a POS craftsman orbital :shock: I wash my car pretty regularly about once a week and it has developed what I think is "medium" swirl marks from never atually being polished properly and all of the washes..I am in the process of doing a clay removal now and pan to do one more before I start with the PC and poorboys products since it has been over a year for any kind of polish.
I tried to capture the swirls on the photos but you really can't see them no matter what settings I used on the camera,nighttime will probably show them better, but here are the pics.
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The products I was planning to use are as follows in chrono order..

Wash and clay first of course.
SSR 2.5
SSR2
SSR1
Poorboys professional polish
Black hole
EXP
Naty's blue

I would certainly like the best results possible but I have no exp. with theese products so if there is something I don't really need I would rather not buy it since money is kind of tight. Am I on the right track here?
Thanks in advance for any input!
 

BigLeegr

Token Brute and Chief Bottle Washer
Staff member
If you really want to get rid of some products, you could get rid of SSR1 (I think PP is more versatile, but if you wanted to keep the SSR1 you could drop the PP) and use just either EX-P or Natty wax, as either one will "wax" your paint
 

Poorboy

Founder
Staff member
First ..welcome to our forum ... second do you have a new machine or are you working by hand?

third..this is what I would amend it to by machine:


Wash and clay first of course.
SSR 2.5
SSR1
Black hole
EXP
Natty's blue

if by hand:(swirls are real hard to get rid of by hand)

Wash and clay first of course.

Poorboy's professional polish
Black hole
EXP
Natty's blue
 
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peteyturbo

Guest
Thaks, I will post in the newbie section as well, but I just wanted some quick advice on choosing the products..I will be purchasing the porter cable with necessary pads ect. as well:)
I can't wait to get this car looking nice again!
Poorboy said:
First ..welcome to our forum ... second do you have a new machine or are you working by hand?

third..this is what I would amend it to by machine:


Wash and clay first of course.
SSR 2.5
SSR1
Black hole
EXP
Natty's blue

if by hand:(swirls are real hard to get rid of by hand)

Wash and clay first of course.

Poorboy's professional polish
Black hole
EXP
Natty's blue
 
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