I finally got my paint correction supplies for Christmas this year, a lovely kit from Detailers Domain. And with that, I was quite excited to start learning techniques for paint correction. This is not a write up for a whole car, just the hood from one. The swirls were actually pretty minor, so I added a few of my own by rubbing the panel with a paper towel. With the desired damage done, I proceeded to wipe down the panel with OPC 3:1, and clay it with DI fine clay and ONR as lube. After an IPA wipedown I taped off half the panel and began to work. I used Menzerna FG400 and an orange Uber pad, on speed 6 with my DA polisher. I think I may go down to speed 5 from now on, just because at 6 the polisher is a bit hard to manage at that speed. I made a few passes, but then I switched to a yellow Uber pad, just to get a feel for a more aggessive pad and what kind of work it can do. I got pretty decent results, but it was getting cold and dark and as I live in an apartment now I had to go inside. However, here's my results of about ~10 minutes worth of work. No wax applied as I plan on doing some more work on it sometime later. Here's the panel in question: Before: My first 50/50 shot! Probably would be better if I had some decent lighting and something other than my iPhone to take pictures with After: There's still some minor marring left, just some stray deeper scratches that I plan on polishing out when the weather gets nice again. I'm sure I'll be doing more research and asking more questions about the products that I've got and the best way to use them in the coming months I plan on offering paint correction services to my clients by this spring. I'm not sure anyone will actually go for having correction done, but it's worth a shot Thanks for reading, Clark
The best thing is to do is educate your customers what paint correction is and I always show them pictures of cars I have done. A lot of my new customers don't know what paint correction is.
I'm not sure yet. I do have an awning that I can set up and polish under that, and at my current apartment I park right next to my door so I can run my extension cord out there to do stuff. My parents only live an hour away and have a heated garage that I'm free to use whenever I want, so I imagine I'll be doing a lot of work there.
Congrats Clark! You should be able to do most of your polishing on speed 5 which , as you noticed, is a lot more manageable and not quite as 'buzzy'. There are alot of threads on this forum as to how to use your PC. Also, look for threads by Kevin Brown (here and most of the larger forums) and Dave KG ( over on Detailing World)
