Beginner car detailers: 5 tips on how to polish your car like a PRO (using this combo)!

Everyone I'm gonna show you a really awesome combo today and it's at one two knockout punch on

almost any vehicles paint you can use it if you're a beginner all the way up to a pro and I

have to thank my buddy Markus from MK deep dives who is the one that turned me onto this combo and

I haven't looked back since and so I'm excited to share our secret with you to show you how to use

this to polish like a pro

I'm also gonna talk to you about five tricks that are and tips that will help you get that final

finish I'm so stick around for that as well

in this video I'm gonna show you basically all the secrets and set up and then in

another video I'm gonna show it to you in action but first let's talk about the combo and what it

is so the combo is Meguiar's 110 ultra pro speed compound

And Meguiar's 210 ultra pro finishing polish and either orange or blue Lake country HDO foam

pads for your DA polisher

now

I label my bottles as to which pad they go to so you can see I can look at this and I put a pinch

and I know this is my compound going on blue and this is my polish going on orange so I'm gonna

show you know how we can mix and match and get a result 95% of the time

yeah it's a great combo and again you don't have to be a pro to use this combo you can actually

thanks to Marcus you can actually get 210 and 110 at Harbor freight

so in this video I'm not gonna talk to you about extreme examples and also realize that what works

for me

do you know is just one

trick you don't have to only use this I'm not saying that's the only method I'm just saying that

Great results whether you're a beginner or pro by using this combo so

don't let me lose you here just because you know you're set on a different brand try other

stuff out occasionally and see if it works

so fortunately I had Markus tell me about this combo that's not what I was using before but I

love it now part so I'm gonna tell you now where we go with these pads

I by and large we're going to use the blue pads for our cutting in the orange pads for our

polishing I know what you're thinking you're thinking well orange pad is a medium cut

you're right we're going to use it as a polishing pad and I'm gonna show you how

so

we got the blue HDO foam it's about as heavy as I can get the HDO is different from the hex pads

because

the blue foam is fairy - is softer but it has a real stiff

backing or

Intermediary between the backing velcro strip and the and the blue pad so it allows you to both

do you know cut as well as finish out now if you've seen our work before you know we'd love

megs 110 because sometimes it finishes out just like a polish if you do it right so a

beginner can do it a pro can do it I'm a show you how

and then 210 so megs 210 replaced megs 205 205 has a slightly higher cut megs rated as a

for this they rate 210 as a three so keep that in mind but the 210 will finish off a little bit

better so

we have 210 in here and we're going to get an extra cut and we're gonna be able to break

down the abrasives a little bit better by using it on an orange HDO medium putting pad as opposed

to what you would consider

Traditional one which might be the black pad we're gonna polish on Orange now I tell you that you

know those are those are not the only options all right I mix and match these all the time so you

could potentially run what have you got a one step for example

you have two options that you can try you can try

the 210 on a blue

or depending upon the paint and I literally just did this to almost perfection the other day on a

black metallic BMW

you can go

110 on an orange and they can both potentially work for you you just gotta try it

that day I tried the 210 on blue and it just didn't quite cut enough this cut just a little

bit better and gave me a perfect one step result and I want to step that vehicle term probably 95

% so I love that combo as well and you can mix and match those with other things

But that's how that's our traditional probably

the two 1 step options as well as you know the one two knock out blue and blue and orange on 210 so

next I'm gonna show you how we achieve that result

using what many might consider a non- traditional method

you know with the medium cutting pad

I got to say I change the set up here so you could see a little bit better

one of the things I told you the beginning was gonna show you five tips and tricks that

and help you get that final finish it's also one of the things that's going to allow this combo to

work in general it's a great habit to practice and yeah but it is going to work here and so

here's here's number one number one is

when you when you use the pad you're using a small amount of product

so wwe don't want super large

dots we want

in a pea dot so I put like three

or typically three maybe four on a larger pad and

notice where I put the dots I put them on the outside or towards the outside why do you want to

do this because the dual action polisher

will rotate stuff towards the center of the pad if you load up the center of the pad your three

inch comes to 1 inch and so forth and so on so load up the outside of the pad with with the

right amount of product which is not a lot OK so that's tip number one and it's also the first

step in getting

our combo to work properly

tip number two we pretty much already talked about I just didn't mention it as a tip and that

is experiment with the combos that we

thought we mentioned before and realize that what works for one paint from one manufacturer or even

the same manufacturer but a different model may not work for the next depending upon all kind of

factors OK so do you know once you've mastered this you can't just say I'm always going to use 110

on a blue it may not work out we're trying to get to the mirror we're nearly mirror finish we

don't do perfect of anything in this world despite what YouTube

creators will tell you if you don't you're perfect

at all not always anyways and so we're gonna

we're gonna experiment a little bit and you may realize that you need to change something up so

gotta be flexible you can't be set in stone what your combos and all that stuff I showed you the

product placement I showed you that now I'm gonna talk about pressure now traditionally what we

want to do is we want to give

you know just enough pressure to hold the machine in place or you know maybe just a wee bit see I'm

where you're not even compressing the pad much but you can Keep the machine where you

want the machine to stay

in this case though because we want the abrasives to break down we're gonna we're gonna

give it a little bit more pressure on the initial application and then once we get past that first

pass we're going to reduce pressure and kind of lift it up and see how I compress the pad and

then lift it up that's going to help break those abrasives down if you don't do that step what's

going to end up happening is the abrasives don't finish out or they don't break down right away

and when you finish your step you're going to notice you have a bunch of micro scratches you put on yeah

because you got

the abrasives are still intact all right so that's the next tip

OK the next tip and it's also important for this is the movement speed in which we move on the

panel itself now

this is actually pretty hard to master and the best way to master your speed of your arms

Is to get a junkyard hood

and

you know hold the pad and the machine in place and see how long it takes on this you know junk

to burn through the paint and you'll see it is very very difficult with the foam pad and a

compound to to burn through paint not saying it's impossible I'm not telling you to sit out

there on an edge we don't want to sit on edges for very long because it generates more heat this

is the correction on the edge I'm not saying any of that I am just saying that first you have to

build confidence then you have to know what the limit is and then you can go back and realize

that you're working

either too fast or too slow and

what I mean by that is you'll see a lot of people they tend to rush over the panel

and I have found that that is way too fast in most cases and

it doesn't get the results you need So when I do correction

I am I have to force myself because I'm a bit of a rusher myself so I have to force myself and

I'm going super slow and sometimes like really slow to the point of I feel like a turtle

and that's how slow I go

as I'm cross hatching and I'm not gonna go over all polishing compound, polishing

compounding tricks you know I just wanna mainly highlight this and focus on that other stuff

that is the

the next tip or that is the fourth tip out of five

and so it's gonna be pressure

and

I would use just enough speed

and this relates to pressure

you want enough speed that if you push down like we talked about it doesn't stall the machine so

you might need to turn the speed up and then when you reduce pressure also reduce the machine I

typically run on a setting three this is a flex PXE 80

and I don't want to talk about every machine can be different so you got a color

again combo and you have to

practice and you know research and see what works best for you and that's why the junkyard hood

comes into play so

so that's the fourth step

now I'm just gonna briefly polish this hood

all right and that you know so I did some polishing I'm just a bit to illustrate a point

here but

I am not showing technically I will get that in a different video when I want to talk about is the

fifth and final tip I gave you all the keys here I just haven't showed you exactly what we're

going to do in order to do that in the next video but I showed you everything else so the last tip

the last tip is you have to clean your pads so I am super anal about cleaning my pads

every time I lift the machine off the panel Stop the machine to reload product or wipe down or

whatever the case

am I am cleaning

I'm cleaning the pad now you can use a brush this is a claw tool from Rupes

or what we also have is we have a reel system all throughout our shop with

knock off Tornadors

do you know are on the end

and we blow out our pads

after every panel and then we also will blow the panel itself out

and then one and then we're going to wipe

and this is part of the cleaning tips

we use a solvent

a panel prep spray versus alcohol that's going to help lubricate the surface

as you wipe it off you're just gonna mist it a little bit of it and

you know wipe off and then back off with a different towel behind it for optimal effects or

at least flip it over

otherwise

OK so now you can see my face again but I want to mention another reason we do use the SB3 ready

solvent prep is because not only do we want to lubricate the service as we're wiping it off so

we don't scratch the surface that we just polished but it also removes any remaining oils or

anything that's left over on the paint which will

make it optimally prepped for ceramic coating in our case or whatever you use in a preferably

ceramic coating but

that's gonna prep that so I showed you all the tricks I showed you five tips and tricks and I

showed you

the pads that we use I showed you the compounds and the polishes that we use to get these awesome

results in the links are always in the description

and you know heck you can get some of it at Harbor freight like I mentioned at the beginning

so again not just pros not just beginners

This is great for everybody at once you get the hang of the pressure and the speed and breaking

down the abrasives correctly and you do a little experimentation in practice

this can be a pro to beginner you can blow your clients away you can make your own vehicle you

know gorgeous again

this is a great

you can keep this from the beginning all the way

first start out you learn this and you can take it in all the way in to do a pro coatings and pro

polishing like we do so I hope you enjoy this video hope it was informative for you

and we'll see you for the next one