For the final color sand/buffing process, have any of you guys used the orange peel removing pads for a DA buffer? Or should I just stick with the traditional color sand, compound with rotary, then polish it off with the DA.

I put on two WET coats of clear after the original three that were color sanded. Ran into a few issues. The paint looks unbelievably deep with very little peel.

Got a monstrous slide on the rear hatch. Thoughts on removing this?

A little trash landed on the roof. Will a buffer get this or should I color sand the whole car?

Started to color sand the car with 1200, 1500, and 2000.

Rotary buffer with wool pad and m105 doesn't want to take any scratches out. It looks awful now, just hazed/scratched over. I've tried the DA as well with no luck.

thoughts?

2004gts wrote:Started to color sand the car with 1200, 1500, and 2000.

Rotary buffer with wool pad and m105 doesn't want to take any scratches out. It looks awful now, just hazed/scratched over. I've tried the DA as well with no luck.

thoughts?

If the scratch refinement from sanding was done correctly, then what you should have with the m105 is more of a refinement. if you still have a scratch pattern from sanding still there, ya didn't buff enough.
m105 is usually used in conjunction with m205, that being m205 used after the m105.
but pictures would help greatly. get pictures from different angles so we can see what ya got.

I have both m105 and m205. I've been detailing cars my entire life and have never had this issue always used 3m compounds and menzerna polishes. M105 on the wool pad has zero effect on the finish. It's like I'm spreading a glue with no abrasives.

I'll give it another go today now that I'm fresh. Maybe I was putting too much product on the pad.

start with a clean pad. it doesn't take but a dime size drop to do about a 24 by 24 area. don't overwork it. keep the pad clean.

If it seems like you're spreading glue you probably have way too much product on the pad. I have not used M105 on wool but I have used it on LC orange pads after sanding with 1500 grit. On a 6.5" pad I like to do three dime sized drops and a squirt of QD and then work an 18x18" area at fairly high speed with moderate pressure. 1500 grit scratches and haze should be gone after 5-6 section passes.

M105 and M205 use non-diminishing abrasives so you don't need as much as some other more conventional compounds. Mostly you just need to worry about keeping the area you are working from drying out completely since the compound can be worked for a very long time.