I am looking for a compound/polish a little more aggressive than Poorboy's SSR 3. I have some water spots in the paint, and ssr3 does get most, but I need something a tad bit more aggressive. Any suggestions?

I have a PC, and foamed wool pad, yellow, orange and white pads for it.


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Roger

 

Duuno man, I am sure someone will chime in shortly...

 

roger- what pad have you been using with the 3?
its not a polish, its a compound (pretty aggressive) and it should do the trick-

are your water spots etched? (can you catch an edge of the spot with your fingernail?)- if so, its not an easy fix. you have to cut off the edges of the spot and wont be able to really remove it.
if its not etched, you should be able to get out the stain.

are you fully working the product til it dusts?
your paint should look pretty bad afterwards if you are doing it right... once the problems are cured, a polish is the cure for the compound haze.

 

You should be using the Lake Country CCS orange pad.

 

I started with the CCS yellow and worked my way up. The surface feels smooth to me, but I will double-check later today, and get back to you guys!!

 

[QUOTE=wanabe,Mar 25 2008, 12:30 AM]

are your water spots etched?

 

o.k.- got a pm asking for products with less dust than poorboys...
related to this so i will put this here- i would first go to the menzerna line of polishes.

and its all opinion, so we might get some others here too-

 

i want to know this too...

 

I've got water spots that are very deep as well. I just remove the swirls and ignore them. I cant catch them with a finger nail, but I lack a paint gauge to really feel confident in trying to polish them out. I did two passes with IP and an orange pad. That's as far as I will go without further instruction.

 

In regard to the question about a polish with less dusting than PB's, you may want to try the Optimum line (polish, hyper-compound, compound). Almost zero dusting and effective.