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Originally Posted by epapp
Thanks, I use a lot of griots products aas well as meguiars polishes cleaners and waxes and glazes. I also have the drying towel you are talking about. We are kinda crazy about paint care and quality at my house (hey, if I can't enjoy staring at my car, how can I enjoy it otherwise?)
I use the marroon colored pads for rotary polishing, and I think it is a white pad for the orbital with a lighter cutting compound.
When I used the rotary last summer I left swirls (was my first time using the rotary) but I got them out with some help from my dad and longer smoother movements while polishing.
The spider webs were significantly reduced then, but have come back, or maybe they have always been there..
I have been looking for good compounds/sequences of products to use that will cut enough, before I go completely through my paint (guards red has no clear coat..?) with the only cleaner I know of right now that is for sure to get rid of the problems, meguiars medium cut cleaner.
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well if you're only inent during a session is to remove swirls, then you should be graduating the abrasiveness of the polish from very mild up to aggresive. Tape a line vertically with blue painter's tape on one of the panels to compare how much bite the polish managed in reducing the swirls. Then go one level up with a more aggresive polish. Go back and compare to the untouched side of the tape. If you still have swirls then you need a more aggresive polish still. Then and only then go to the Menzerna IP which will get out the swirls but as you point out, will cut down the most clear coat.
All modern Porsche paints (like on water-cooled cars) have a clear coat above the base layer. But I would not use a rotary until all other choices have been exhausted unless you have quiet a lot of experience with that tool. It's very easy to end up with an uneven clear coat with wild swings in paint depth from one section to another. Then you'll have to get out the paint meter before you're actually cutting into the base layer. risky... stick with the orbital.
re the Griot's towels, I wasn't referring to the their drying towel, you're probably thinking of their big yellow waffle weave towel. I meant their smaller blue and green towels, I would only use these on the paint. Or a very soft concours buffing towel for final touches. The problem with standard microfiber towels that have the prickly hooks on one side of the towel is that they are only really clean the first time you use them. Once they're dirty you have to wash them multiple times because the hooks are very stubborn at letting going of stuff they pick up. If the towel is not 100% clean it will induce swirls. And really that kind of hooked end is totally uncessary for a well-maintained surface. Maybe useful on a moto-x bike but not a Porsche.