As the title suggest, has anyone ever used 1 to polish their car ?

Just bought the backing plate and a pad aand wondered if they are any good ?

As in paintwork? Jeeezus, don't do that... you'll be through it in no time. You need something that moves in a random fashion, not something that will give you swirl marks. If you mean for polishing metal, that's a different story. I have several drill kits for that.

I have used a 50mm backing plate and a 2" wool pad on paintwork, using a rotary polisher. Works well, but I prefer a full 6" plate and wool pad as covers bigger area with less pressure on a focussed point. I imagine using a drill would be OK as long as variable speed and you keep it down fairly low, say at about 500rpm? and keep the pad moving too.

most drills would be way too fast, you need a rotary or even better a da as demonufo suggests

Not only too fast, but the distance between the mop and the handle is gonna be some severe leverage. It's got disaster written all over it.

For what it cost it can sit in the tool box if its no good for the car. Will come in handy for sanding things i suppose.

Thanks for the advice chaps.

not sure where we got them from but can find out we have a hand help polisher that uses lithium batteries and is amazing polished loads on my car with it

Tool station do a sander polisher for £40 just but the buffing pads, mops and cutting compound

thats a rotary tho, its silverline, so not up to pro standard, or for beginners imo, though it does have speed control