Well, I'm trying to touch up some of my scratches and craters in my paint. After I touch-up and sand, the sanded paint is really dull... really really dull. What do you use to make this look like paint? Polish? Wet Sand with finer paper?

 

clearcoat

 

Bust out the high speed buffer and hit it with some Swirl Remover 2.0, then finalize with 3M Imperial Hand Glaze.

 

well wet sand with some 2000 grit and even some 4000 grit, then take some rubbing compound to it it and then wax it up nice and good. If you sanded the clear coat off of the truck then your going to have to apply new clear coat.

 

Why would you take rubbing compound to it AFTER you already wet sanded with 2000 and 4000 grit? Youre going backwards. No need to go so drastic on cutting.

V2.0 Swirl Remover for cutting with enough, then the glaze to remove any left over fillers and bring up the shine.

 

Wrong dude........rubbing compound comes after paper sanding.

--Joe

 

Yup, its all about progressively reducing the abrasives until no marks can be seen. You will probably have some haze to the finish until you get down to your finishing compounds, hand glaze and then wax.

 

LOL

Ok, would you guys like to do a test panel and put up the results?

When you color sand a panel, are you using Rubbing Compound afterwards? I hope the hell your not. I most certainly wouldnt let you touch my truck if thats your prodedure in the shop.

 

**** is right, according to the directions on my bottle of rubbing compound, it removes 1500 grit scratches. If you did 2000 and 4000 before that, you'll just be making deeper scratches than what was there. use something like smr and then a good glaze after wet sanding with 2000 and 4000

 

LOL.......

typical steps for a brilliant shine.......

wet sand
rubbing compound
foam polishing glaze
wax

--Joe

 

I beg to differ...

I can wetsand a panel and go straight to the least aggressive abrasive, then finalize the shine with a polish with NO fillers in less time then you would be screwing around with your 20 step process and deterioration of the clear coat.

Key is to go with the least aggressive abrasive as possible.

Joe, show me how brillant your truck shines...

 

If that is some cheap shot because I sold my truck........that just shows your maturity level.

If it wasn't...........I would have put my truck up against yours in a second.

--Joe

 

Wasnt aware you sold your truck...

At any rate, put up some pics...

 

Pic's of Joe's old truck

 

Joe you are correct. Take 1500grit on a block gently water sand scratch Be careful factory clear is thin. Take a med. rubbing coumpound to take out 1500grit sanding scratches. Then a polishing coumpound to take out rubbing coumpound scratches and swirls. Wax
Ed