Honda fit paint: getting hot very quickly

Heya,

My friend and I decided to polish his 07 honda fit. It's black and we all know how much black cars are hard to work with.

After a wash with CG citrus and some claying action, the surface was revealing it's true nature.

So I wipe out the makita and start with an orange 6.5 LC pad and some menzerna SIP. After the first pass, I stopped to check out how how the pnael was ... it was pretty hot ... I mean, very VERY hot. There was this weird smell to the paint as well.

I inspected the machine, and I was running it at 900 > 1500 > back to 900. I usually never have a problem with this technique on any other paints.

So we test another spot, this time with an white 6.5 LC pad and some merzerna Power Finish. SAME THING, paint was hot as hell only after the first pass!!!!

:shead:

:shrug:

Anyone?

 

hmm. interesting. i just did an s2k a couple months ago, but didnt have this problem. honda paints are soft but a burning smell is nothing I have ever come across. do you have a PC? if so try that, and if it keeps happening well then im baffled.

 

^^^ I'll give the PC a try.

To rectify, it wasn't a "burning" smell, more like a "sweet" smell of paint. I had that smell way back when I was practicing on a scrap panel @ 3000 RPM on a ford focus trunk ... I was trying to see the limit of the paint at that point.

 

Why not just work it at 1000?

 

I never tried working SIP at 1000rpm actually ... will it have the same correcting abilities?

 

Give it a shot.

 

will do, Thanks,

 

What was the ambient temperature/humidity? I had a case last weekend where it was so hot and humid in my garge, I couldn't polish (even with a PC) because the polishing were hazing on the finish and I wasn't able to break them down completely. Even before polishing, the panels were hot to the touch (and had been in the garage over night so not a cause of the sun).

 

Buying that portable air conditioner was the best darned investment I have made, LOL. No problems when the garage is 72 degrees.

 

the car had been in the garage over-night and it wasn't really hot outside. hummm

 

I have found the white LC pads to generate a fair amount of heat, more so in fact than orange pads for some weird reason unless it's just me...

 

Its because the pad is soft and grabbing the paint, more friction, more heat.

 

Could you elaborate on this idea? I'm interested. I've really come to enjoy using soft pads (the 3M UK ones in particular), and would like to know more about the heat generation aspect of hard versus soft pads. I've never thought to test for it.

 

Well it has to do with the polish/ amount used, pad, paint, weather, machine, and speed. All of these factors and cause soft pads to grab the paint. Thats why its important to have different polishes/ pads.

 

Running it at 1000RPM did the trick. You have to work the product a bit more but at least it doesn't heat up to quickly

Thanks for the tip!!

 

No problem, glad I could help.