The car was our '04 Civic winter beater, tons of swirls, a few scratches and a bit oxidized.
The polish I started with was Poorboy's Professional Polish, on the yellow pad, then moved to SSR2 on a white pad. Then to Black Hole with a black pad.
then waxed. All on a 7424
The results are great.
I suspect I heated the pad to much trying to get some nasties out of the front fender.
The project was an experiment on a car we don't care allot about, had some sort of overspray on it that the clay bar got about half of.
thanks for the replies.
rdhamill
this caught my eye and I'm surprised no one here noticed it. we have a great group here that has amazing knowledge.
you stated you did Pro polish w/ yellow pad then moved to SSR2 on a white pad
the truth of the matter this set up is almost equal in aggressiveness, pro polish is a chemical cleaner/polish which is pad dependent, meaning the more aggressive the pad with Pro-P the more aggressive the the cut.
SSR-2 with a white pad.. the SSr is the aggressor and the pad is the medium to carry, both of your line-ups are close to being equal in cut, I'm thinking the SSR-2 is slightly more.
if you use the SSR and the white pad as your first step and them jump to Pro-P with a LC Green, Black or Blue pad your going to see amazing results.
when choosing your pad line-up you also have to take in account the product pad combo changes the aggressiveness of the combined, a light cut pad can not make a medium cut product less aggressive.
hope this helps
good luck with your pad backing problem.