put my cyclo to the test.. check it out

[Donavin629]

Whats up guys.. just thought I would share the latest with a little testing I did today.
Was a nice sunny day today and my roommate has the perfect test car to try stuff out on.. and since she does not care about her car so even if I mess up it wont matter.
Here is what I tested out today.. been trying to cut my scratch removal time during the detail.. and also work on not causing such a mess with splatter by using my Makita high speed buffer.
So I ordered a couple of the yellow wool pads for my cyclo to give it a test.

Here were my steps.
Wash car with ONR.
System one polish with cyclo machine and yellow wool pads.
Now i did have to go over the are a couple times.. I usually go back and forth then up and down and then in small circular motions.
Wipe polish off
Switch to yellow foam pads to remove the swirls from the wool pads.

And boooya.. looks pretty damn good to me.

And I did not even have to brake out the big high speed to get this stuff.. I was pretty impressed.

Let me know if you have any questions.. of course im sure I will need my Makita for the bigger/ deeper scratches.. but I think I can get away with a lot just using my cyclo.

Even shined up the headlights with no problems.

YOUR THOUGHTS OR FEEDBACK IS GREATLY APPRECIATED



BEFORE


After



Roof before


roof after







And of course what is a detailer without his helper

[tuscarora dave]

The dog is a nice touch, I own a Cyclo too, it is a very nice polisher and very capable of correction. I mainly use my Makita and Megs polisher for the exterior and have pretty much reserved the Cyclo for carpet scrubbing since it does such a nice job at that. I personally would rather deal with splatter than to add the extra time it takes to do correction with the Cyclo. I worked soley with the Cyclo for my first year and a half of detailing and there will always be a spot in my arsonal for it.

[JohnHenry]

Nice job, Donavin. That car was just plain vandalized! (You positive your best friend there didn't have anything to do with those scratches? LOL!)

[Ronkh]

Nice work

[GearHead_1]

Donavin, might I make a suggestion? I don't know if my eyes are the only bad ones on the forum or not but I have a hard time reading the small font in your post. Could you maybe make it larger in future posts?

[Donavin629]

Originally Posted by GearHead_1

Donavin, might I make a suggestion? I don't know if my eyes are the only bad ones on the forum or not but I have a hard time reading the small font in your post. Could you maybe make it larger in future posts?

sorry about the font.. i copied from MS word

[black bart]

Apparently your friend washes their car with Brillo pads.
That thing was trashed.

[Donavin629]

yeah well i dont know what this girl does to her car.. cause i took bad scratches out of that same panel of her car.. then i looked and i was like did those scratches come back.. i was worried that my product was hiding the scratches like a glaze.. so i wanted to try again.. but looking at the older pics and these.. the scratches are different.

this is about 3 months ago



and this was today


its clear these are different scratches so i guess my polish is not trying to hide things lol

i was nervous for a second

[Spawne32]

those headlights could still use a little work, but i gotta say that is an epic improvement from before man

[Donavin629]

Originally Posted by Spawne32

those headlights could still use a little work, but i gotta say that is an epic improvement from before man

yeah well her car is pretty beat up.. the plastic on the headlight was cracking and there was this one line across the center i could not get out.

here were my steps.
i used magic eraser to take most of the oxidation off then buffed with the cyclo and yellow pads with system one polish.

any ideas?.. i use magic eraser instead of wet sanding.