Same technique I use! Also from a YouTube. Get some pictures up! 1995 4.6 v8, green/tan (long gone)
2005 4.8iS X5, blue/black
2011 4.4 tdv8, black/black (gone)
2003 3.0d X5, Oxford green/black/manual
2021 p575 SVR, BR green/vintage tan

Some great results there. Any pics of your before and afters would be great.

These two are afterwards, didn’t take any befores of the bonnet... not the greatest images but they show a good finish:

Aye it’s pretty satisfying . Results look very good

This is quite a good example of the type of marring that was on the car - not a good
look when the sun hits it; and all after my hand compounding efforts of last week 🙄

That’s look amazing - great job  1995 4.6 v8, green/tan (long gone)
2005 4.8iS X5, blue/black
2011 4.4 tdv8, black/black (gone)
2003 3.0d X5, Oxford green/black/manual
2021 p575 SVR, BR green/vintage tan

Well, the ongoing results are great. However, today, an orange coloured Country Lake foam cutting pad exploded whilst being used with Farecla G3 on a quite badly contaminated (bird droppings) roof of a car other than the RR... interestingly, I’d put the polisher speed up to the max of 6 about a minute before said loud bang and bits of orange foam raining down... an unexpected phenomenon

pld118 wrote:

Tried it again this morning on the bonnet, this time using a different technique learnt from a you tube video and also used a foam cutting pad instead of a MF cutting pad:

AJGalaxy,

The 23 minute video is on YouTube and is entitled:
How to polish a car with a DA polisher DAS6 pro for Beginners

So far, have used Lake Country orange coloured foam cutting pad with Meguiars compound on it, followed by a Lake Country black coloured Microfibre finishing pad with Meguiars polish on it. Time consuming but once you’ve seen that video, all easy enough to do and not difficult to achieve pleasing results if your paintwork is in half decent order to start with.

I’ve just picked the car off by polishing for an hour a day here and there. Fortunately, we’re able to keep it under cover whilst I pfaff about doing all this. Only got the roof left to machine polish really.

Was to put Meguiars liquid wax on all of it yet and maybe some C2 ceramic coating... but it all takes too much time.

Much appreciated, thank you.

J BMW i3 Electric Car
2012 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8 (now gone)
2006 VW Touareg 3.0 TDi V6

Wow even the block paving is detailed, mine has huge weeds in between---lol

Seriously though it looks great (the car I mean)  2018 SE SDV8 4.4 Byron Blue

Must be a creature of habit. Sticking with what has worked, today ordered more Lake Country polishing pads (1 orange for cutting, 1 green for polishing and 1 black for finish waxing), plus new bottles of Meguiars ultimate compound and ultimate polish... wish had tried Hex logic pads or Scholl products or poor boys products or whatever but... if it’s not broken