Polishing pads

Polishing pads are the most important product you use during polishing. Many people think that polishing agent is more important than a polishing pad and that it determines how many paint defects you will remove and how much shine you can get. However, this is not true at all. A polishing pad is more important during polishing than a polishing compound. A coarser polishing pad with more cutting power will always remove more paint defects than a polishing compound. Same with shine. A softer polishing pad will always give more shine than a finer polish. For this reason, there are so many different polishing pads.

The different polishing pads vary from the polishing pad coarseness and the material. A foam pad is generally softer than a microfiber pad and a wool pad. They mainly use these to finish. Microfiber and wool have different properties and are close to each other. You can remove and finish paint defects with all polishing pads. Only microfiber is usually coarser than wool. It mainly depends on the type of microfiber and wool. You can deduce in the description how much cutting power the pad has.

Microfiber does have a disadvantage that it must be cleaned regularly during polishing. Microfiber absorbs all the polish and varnish that you remove into its microfibers. As a result, the microfibers also cling to each other and no longer work as they should. It is therefore recommended that every round of polishing you make the pad clean with a tornado gun if you have a compressor. And another one path brush.

Wool has different types of polishing pads. They generally require no more maintenance than a standard foam pad. Modern wool pads can remove paint defects very well and still have a very nice finish. Wool also keeps the surface of the paint cooler, so you can work better and safer.

Finally, the polishing pads also come in different sizes. Of course it is best to take a smaller pad when you need to polish small details such as front bumpers or even interior moldings. A larger polishing pad for the roof is of course more convenient and faster. For each a small polishing pad you can of course also use a smaller one polisher need.

It is always important to wash the car well with a before polishing car shampoo and you 2 emmer method. Then clean the paint with a iron remover en tar remover. And finally a clay treatment to remove dirt trapped in the paint. This way the paint is as clean as possible. If you are going to polish and there is still dirt on it and in the paint, these will come loose during polishing and end up in the polishing pad. As a result, you will rub dirt, iron particles and tar around on the paint and you can cause damage and never achieve an optimal result.

With foam polishing pads you can always say that the harder the pad is, the coarser the polishing pad is and the softer the polishing pad, the finer it is. Most polishing pads also have a center hole to provide cooling during polishing. This makes your polishing pad last longer and you get better results with a dual action polisher.