My second-hand DAS6 Pro has arrived. Included were black and orange 6" hex pads (no name, but I guess CG since the black one's very soft) and a big thick black foam pad, which I presume is to apply polish. The seller also chucked in the following:

Farécla G3 advanced liguid compound

CG swirl-spider web-scratch removal (blue bottle)

Megs Step 1 JeepCrystal Paint Cleaner

So, will any of that be any good for my 3-y-o carwash-battered beige paintwork? (I know they may not comprise the ideal system, but I'm reluctant to just bin these unless I have to.)

Thanks for reading.

Edit: Oh, and there's one of those yellow backing plates too, with the hole rather than the spindle. I don't think that's much use to me, is it?

Edited 25 June, 201312 yr by Devon Wanderer

G3 is good stuff, mainly used for freshly sprayed paint to for faded paint, as it's quite coarse.

I'm afraid I don't know any of the other things (I know basically nothing on polishing )

If you use the g3 with the black finishing pad, it will remove most swirls with minimum clear coat removal

The orange pad and g3 combo is probably too harsh

Thanks. Are the other two harsher than g3, or do they have another use altogether?

I've got AG SRP and AG HDW on there at the moment. Do I have to remove those first, or will the g3 do it?

Wash the car with Fairy liquid first and spray with APC..rinse and dry

Start with Medium pressure and speed 3 or 4 and as the polish begins to break down, go very lightly until it goes clear.

The other two are less harsh btw

Wash the car with Fairy liquid first and spray with APC..rinse and dry

Start with Medium pressure and speed 3 or 4 and as the polish begins to break down, go very lightly until it goes clear.

The other two are less harsh btw

Cheers. I'll see if I can swap them for some spot pads on DW.

So, when I've corrected with the g3, can I use the big thick foamy whatsit to seal and/or wax, or is that better done by hand? Do I need to make/buy a polishing bonnet, or are they just for rotaries?

My pads of choice and polish combination is a 3M or CG hexalogic medium pad with Scholl S17+ polish if that's any good to you

Skoda paint is medium hard, so you need an initial cut before the polish starts to break down..Scholl S17+ diminishes quickly and so refines as it's worked. You can apply wax with a finish pad, but most people apply by hand

Good luck

OK, I'm probably looking at this the wrong way, then, but I was thinking

1. G3 - abrasive, to get the scratches out

2. SRP (or S17+ or whatever polish; SRP is just what I happen to have) - to seal without correcting further

3. AG HDW - LSP

Perhaps on this initial detail I just need to do steps 1 and 3, and then steps 2 and 3 every few months after that?

AGSRP has very slight abrasives, filler and sealer...in effect its an All in one cleaner, swirl filler and sealer with short durability..so needs reapplying or topping with a wax or dedicated sealer

S17+ is PURE polish..just abrasives without fillers and sealers .....used to polish away clear coat to remove swirls and light scratches

So you’d use the S17+ during a correction as a polish after compounding, and also as part of a regular seal-and-wax routine every few months, yes? Point I’m getting at here is that, once the correction is done, I don’t want to be removing any more clearcoat. Presumably any polish on a soft pad, even SRP, will be OK in that respect?

Do cleansers (eg AGHDC) contain abrasives, by the way?

No...Scholl S17 is the polish/compound...it's for polishing..ie. removing scratches and swirls.

Once done add wax over the top

Most Cleansers have a low abrasive quality, some none. They are designed to prepare the paint for wax or sealer

http://www.theultimatefinish.co.uk/scholl-concepts/s17-high-performance-compound.aspx