Nothing like a good hand polish!

Thought that title would get your's all attention. Anyway, I had about an hour to kill while the kiddies were taking a nap, so I went out to work on the Infiniti G35 I'm curretly working on. First, I cleaned up the tailpipes with some P21s Finish Restorer polish. I really like this stuff because it's more like a paste then a liquid polish. The tips cleaned up nicely and I sealed them with Rejex. But, on to the main reason for starting this thread.

As with any car there are some hard to reach areas that really don't lend themselves to machine polishing. I don't care what machine you're using, what BP, what pad, etc., you just don't want to be sticking anything in there. About a month ago or two, I picked up some of those little LC CCS hand foam polish pads. I bought an orange one and a white one to test them out. On the G35, I wanted to do something for underneath the door handles and cabin-facing parts of the sideview mirrors. Thankfully, the sideviews rotated so I could get after them. I put a little Menz 203 on the white pad and went to town. Here is what I was dealing with:



Here is what I used:



I put a pea-sized dab on the end of the pad and went to work doing criss-cross patterns as fast as my little fat hands would move. Here is the outcome:



There are still some scratches and swirls, but looks a lot better than what it was with minimal investment. I hate having a nicely polished car, but those hard to reach areas still looking a little drab. I would imagine that you could use different polish / pad combos just like with machine polishing as well. Wanted to start out light with the 203 and white pad just to make sure things didn't get screwed up. Happy hand polishing!!!:headbang:

 

Looks great! I may have found a new product, thank you.

 

Wow that is great work..i didnt realize it wud cut that much

 

Trust me, neither did I! I was just trying to get some lustre back in the paint so it didn't look so dull and it ended up taking care of some of the swirls as well. I might get a wild hair and do a section the bumper compared to machine just for grins and giggles this evening.

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

Nice job. It got cold again today so I imagine that was a good way to keep warm, even in the garage!

 

how come the pad is black, is the G35 SS paint?

 

That is dirt from the sideview. I'm thinking I missed that inside area when I clayed, so it came off during the hand polishing. Same thing happened when I did the other one. Now, when I did a couple of tight spots by hand by the grille, there was no dirt as that area was clayed.

 

Looks great, something to keep in mind. I guess I could get by using the 4" pads, hehe. I'm sure they work just as well.

 

Good idea. They look great...:thumb:

 

I'm crazy about having 100% of the car uniformly polished, behind handles, mirrors, intricate parts on bumpers, etc.

When marring is more severe, I use M105 (works great by hand) then follow up with 106ff. It won't turn out perfect (obviously), but for the most part will be 90-95% improved.