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Need help: Polishing and Buffing paint (removing swirls/oxidation) 200 1987

posted by  someone claiming to be Ron Tewksbury on  Wed Aug 20 04:16 CST 2003 [RELATED]

The general rule I always follow when polishing out paint problems is start with a lighter rubbing/polishing compound and go heavier if needed rather than start with a heavy compound and go lighter. The point of this philosophy is to take as little paint off as possible to get the results you want. So in your case I would forget about the heavy rubbing compounds. I would start with one of the swirl removers with the proper pad on your 1500rpm polisher and see how that does. If you go to the Meguiars website they have videos on polishing out blemishes that shows proper polisher technique, etc. I've used Meguiars products for years without problems.

Good luck!

Ron Tewksbury
1968 122s ?99K miles
1987 245dl 145K miles
1989 745gl 182K miles






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