Can I Finish down with Menzerna 4500 with a blue pad or do i need to also pick up Menzerna 2000? specifically working on my dads 2012 A6, I already have Menzerna's "heavy cut" i bought to help out on my moms totally trashed yukon..Just looking at taking care of some very minor swirling on a DD car BTW: I have the flex 3401 TIA!!! :thumb:
Depending on the color and condition. For light colors with light to medium marring, you can 1 step with PF2500. For darker colors you need to finish down with SF4000 or SF4500. For darker colors that are in good condition, 4000 or 4500 might work.
thanks for the info, The car is nearly perfect just some very minor (inevitable) swirling from being a DD. its Black, so should I go ahead and order 4500/2500 yellow pad for the 4500 and a blue for 2500? if im reading this chart right I assume 2500 is even less aggressive then the 4500? or is it the other way around? Most cars in the driveway are perfect or have very minor swirling (mainly my dads a6) since i take care of them all (no auto swirl machines)..My moms yukon is trashed but plan on correcting that in the fall with all menzerna...My mini/brothers jeep is flawless for the most part
If the marring is light, you should be able to get away with the green / 2500 combo and not have to finish down with anything. The 4500 on blue will add a bit more gloss, but for the average guy on a daily driver, its not enough of a difference to justify another 3 hours of polishing. If the green pad isn't aggressive enough, you can use the 2500 with orange or yellow for a little more bite as well.
Grit rating - this is the level of scratches made on a paint surface by finishing paper (sanding scratches) on newly applied OEM paint on the production line i.e. before it has been oven dried and cured Finishing paper - "grit" is a reference to the number of abrasive particles per inch of paper. It eliminates the risk of deep sanding scratches by providing a uniform grit size. This makes sense if you imagine how small the grit particles on a 1000-grit finishing paper would need to be to fit into a 1- inch square. Grit finishing paper is referred to by the size of its abrasives (i.e. 1500-grit paper) the grit rating you use depends on the sanding scratches you’re trying to remove. Polishes and compounds – the (grit) numbers on polishes refer to the sanding scratches it will remove i.e. 2500 will remove 2000 grit sand scratches, 4500 will remove 4000 grit sanding scratches, etc. The higher the grit numbers the finer the sanding scratch it will remove
