Spare work for the holiday
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Hey thanks smooth, I’ve got some projects wen I get bac from a 3week holiday which couldn’t come at a better time
Nice work ! ………but damn , you got more different cream´s than my mother in law uses when she goes out of the house 😉 , nice set tho.
[quote=”Rob1962″ post=31766]Nice work ! ………but damn , you got more different cream´s than my mother in law uses when she goes out of the house 😉 , nice set tho.[/quote]
Hey thanks mate. I like to mix things up abit. Due to the fact some customers don’t or can’t afford the better waxes etc. I also find some creams don’t work well of some colours.
It all started when I noticed I was spending out more the people could afford so I show and ask what they can afford. Over the the last year I’ve collected most of the creams. I’m getting new swixvax next month can’t wait to try it out
Always logic to adapt to your clients needs/wallets i think , i use the 3M Perfect-It system , wich i finnish off with a Maguiar´s wax , works 99.9% of the time , for hand polishing i use 1Z metalic polish with a Maguiar´s wax for protection , works realy sweet too.
This way i keep the costs low and the final product looks great.
Most of the price is in the hours anyways.I don´t have any experience with Swixvax so i am looking forward to hear the results!
Hey, do you use 3m finesse. As I’m thinking of getting it also the 3m machine polish I think it’s the baby blue top lid. Yeh the swixvax that I. Getting is for satin/ Matt paint finish. I do like the meg’s I do like the polish and liquid wax. But I have started jousting the compound which I do like 🙂
What’s the 1z polish like. Is it pricey. How goes it go on etc also is it paint shop friendly
http://www.autogeek.net/1z-einzett-products.html
Here you can find some more on 1Z , i use 3M only in the bodyshop but the 1Z we use in the detailing bay wich is seperated , i mainly use the Polish – wax ( red tin ) , cleans good , restores old paints , even when they are a bit faded , easy to take of and quite durable , and it´s cheap.
I use it for 35 years now and i am still very happy with it , works perfect for cleaning doorsteps and things that needs to shine after first application but it´s nice for whole cars too , depends on what you want to do , i can recomend you to try it out.At the moment i use this system http://catalogue.3m.eu/en_eu/eu-aad/Vehicle_Appearance/Colour_Coded_Polishing_System.
Very easy to use and what i like about it is for example , the fast cut compound buffs all the way to a nice gloss , i then finish it with finishing glaze and i´m done buffing , i do black or dark blue/green cars this way and in general it´s swirl free first time!
Then i top it off with a protective wax and that makes one happy client 😉
It´s a very efficient system and it has a nice price attached.Hmmm looks good, I didn’t now 3m did a kit, but the bottles they show are the ones I have in the big bottles which I’ve brought individualy, I do use a lot of the fast cut green and the blue top anti hologram. The pink top which is a rosa glaze isn’t bad but I have found better ones
As in ziano z3
And meg’s ulimate polish glazeThis was finished off with these two products
I am surprised to see you guys waxing fresh paint, I usually tell people to wait 3 months to avoid traping solvents. have you had any isues?
Hey jim. For me once I’ve painted a car and fit baked it its normally a couple of days before I can get back on it to polish, wax etc as I have to get the other jobs on the go and get the painted as well. Or let the panel side build up the inside of the car if needs be as mists cars you can put the handles in after.
It says on my tds sheet for the clear that after an hour cool down after a full bake I can start to play, polish, rebuild etc,
If you where going to but tapes and stickers or transfors then I try the leave it as long as I can to put them on. But as you know some have to go on before the cars can be built.I’ve never had any problems from waxing on new paint. I would say bout getting a soft wash shampoo as its designed to not strip the fresh wax or polish
I don´t wax new paint , i wait 8 to 10 weeks before doing that , but we offer some simple detailing too and i use 3M for both paint shop related things and detailing , i like the product and see no need to use 2 systems , the only difference is in the pads i use , in the bodyshop i use the flat 150mm pads and in detailing i use the bigger waffled pads , as the 150mm pads seem to wear out a lot quicker than the bigger waffle pads
I live on an island which is 3miles wide and 26 miles in total around, so the salt air and winds are a big problem lol I couldn’t wait 6-8 weeks to start chancing the customers to come back and reply wax etc, the insurance only give me 0.5 to polish and denib. We don’t even get paid to touch up around the car after the job, I do it for the customer. I’m not worried bout not being paid for something as little as that :rock
How would you guys go round doing a job then polish and wait 6/8 weeks to wax bit odd I say
I live in Portugal ( i am Dutch tho!!! ) and i just tell the client they have to come back after 8 weeks to have a free wax aplied , if it´s for free here then they will be there 😉
But more important , we give a lifetime garantee (for the time they own the car ) on our work and paintjob and we just tell them that if they don´t come back they don´t have the garantee.Aw that’s a gd idea. I like that. See the problem I have is the freshly painted panel probably won’t last 8/10 weeks. I could leave the paint in the gun ready for the car to come back next week lol over here the roads are to small and the cars are to big ha ha. It’s got to the point that I even no some colors and all the tints in it. Spray it that often. I would love to travel and paint in different shops round to world to learn how things are done different 🙂
Some tidy work there rikka you’ve been busy :weights
I like that ultrafina as a swirl remover.We dont wax any thing, well there r a few exceptions, as we dont get paid for it. But we tell the customer that they can wax in 3 weeks. We look at it as their responsiblity.
If we do, we like using the the new turtle wax that u can apply in the sun, dont remember the name.
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