TheBow

Hi,

I am wanting to do the meguiars thing on my silhouette XR8 and was wondering if its safe to use one of those lambswool mitts on a low speed cordless drill to finish the polishing?

I have seen the Meguiars applicators but they seem pretty overpriced. Thjat is not really a concern though as I assume they are just for applying then you use somethign else to finish up the polish.

Can I use one of these polishing mitts without fear of wrecking my paint?

Fireman Sam

I use the Meguiars applicator pads for putting the polish/wax on & Meguiars Terry Towels for taking it it off. I only ever polish/wax by hand. You'll do a far better job by doing it by hand & not with a machine polisher/hand drill.

laminge

A Machine Polisher is only safe in an experts hand, and then you are looking at big bucks!

I prefer cloth baby nappies to poilish off mine!

TE50 1

Cleaned and sanitised first
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gregaust

The other guys have pretty much summed up what to use.Definitely dont use a lambswool pad as believe it or not they are actually abrasive and will scratch up the paint.Same goes for cheesecloth.Stick with the meguires stuff and you'll be right and nappies are a bit cheaper than the meguires polish towels...

TheBow

Thanks, I wanted to be sure before I used it and now won't bother except to polish the boat.

Now I need to buy a bunch nappies as those meguiars polish clothes are pretty silly price wise for what is just a bunch of terry toweling.

laminge

Gregaust

Welcome mate, havent seen your other 2 posts, so this is an official welcome!

BTW, gregaust isnt short for greyghost, ie parking inspector!

gregaust

I joined up last weekend after reading the post from aussieblue about some problems he was having getting his rebuilt engine running right.After reading everything he had checked i just had to try and help and remembered a little tip i read about the different intake gaskets between mpi + cpi ,so i posted the article on his post and sure enough that was the problem...
The name gregaust came from when i registered on the fordmuscle website,there were so many gregs on there so i was greg from australia..
Anyway i will be visiting regularly from now on and hope i can help out any of the guys where possible...

Aussiblue

Greg, I'm very grateful you joined when you did. While replacing the manifold gasket was my next step to eliminate the vacuum leak theory, if I hadn'e seen your post I may still not have known the cause or worse might even have slipped the new gasket in in front of the old one. Welcome and thanks again.

BTW you can get eczema from wool mitts if you have sensitive skin

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LTDHO

sihouette.....

It is the hardest colour to polish, I should know.

Unless you have scratched the hell out of your paint, don't use anything with a cutting compound in it. If you use a buffing machine (drills also), you will "swirl" the paint. Not recomended.

Polish only in the shade and make sure the paint is cold. Do a 1/4 panel at a time.

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