So I took it upon myself to machine polish the Scoob, after first practising last weekend on the daily hack - Which is now very shiny too!
I was very kindly lent a machine polisher and paint thickness gauge along with some machine polishing chemicals! (thank you!), after taking measurements last week, and being wowed by the time it took in comparison to doing this sort of job by hand I thought it was a no brainer to give the Scoob the once over as well.
Process was as follows:-
1. Snow Foam! Hurray!
2. Clean wheels, no acid just a nice gentle ph neutral shampoo (they are pretty clean anyway)
3. Rinse the car half way through doing the above!
4. Clean car:- 2 bucket method (lamb skin mit etc) Rinse.
5. Tardis each panel one at a time, rinse and wash again.
6. Clay Mitt the car - to be honest it was pretty dam clean after the Tardis but this should be done anyway
7. prepare car for machine polish - stick tape everywhere!
8. Cut car with cutting compound
- buff off
9. Polish car with less abrasive stuff
... ooo shinney - buff off
10. Glaze with poorboys black hole.
- buff off
11. remove all the tape everywhere! - Put the machine away!
12. Wax with Dodo Juice Blue velvet pro applied with an applicator by hand as this is a hard wax - buff off
Job done.. 9 till 5.30 (no stopping!) this used to take me 2 days!
Pics... Please excuse the iphone snaps, and they don't pop all that much due to the crappy grey weather today!
This is post Tardis/clay etc:-
Prep!
and several hours later!!
Im very happy with the results there is not a single swirl in the paint anywhere *just lots of stone chips! argggH!*.. I don't think I can return to "doing it by hand" again!