(energetic music)
- Hey, everyone.
Sam Battersby from Griots Garage,
and today we're gonna talk
about a three-step paint correction method,
using our complete compound complete polish
and best of show liquid wax.
To start out, we use our G9 Random Orbital Polisher here.
We're gonna start with our microfiber fast finishing pad
and our complete compound.
This is gonna be a good initial step
to cut out moderate to heavy defects,
moderate to heavy swirls, scratches, water spots,
things like that.
When you're first starting with a fresh pad,
this is the only time you'll use this much product.
We're gonna go ahead and swirl from the outside in.
Or you can go from the inside out.
Get a nice even layer on there,
and then we'll rub it in with the dome lid.
Great way to keep your hands clean.
This will be our initial step
for moderate to severe defects.
Throw the cord over your shoulder,
put the pad onto the paint before you turn the tool on
to prevent slinging product everywhere.
We're gonna do about three to five passes here.
The goal is to gonna be to keep the pad
as flat as possible on the panel,
and we're gonna work in a cross-hatch pattern.
I'm gonna start out at speed three,
do a really quick spread pass,
and then I'll speed up to speed four or five
for the rest of the work.
Go ahead and power it on.
(polisher whirs)
All right, let your pad slow down
before you pull the tool off the surface,
again, so you don't sling product everywhere.
One important thing to note about microfiber pads,
they will matte down when you've done a section
about that size.
Ideally, you want to brush this matting back up
to a fluffy fiber to maintain defect removal.
I'm gonna take our pack conditioning brush,
slow the tool down to speed two or three
and simply drag the brush from in and out
as the tool spins.
Now you have a nice fluffy microfiber pad again.
So that's ready to continue removing defects.
Take our plush edgeless towel
and just quickly wipe off product residue here.
We're gonna notice a little bit of haze
from the microfiber in this plain black finish,
but that is okay.
That's why we're doing a two-step method
to remove that with the complete polish,
refine the finish, get as much nice deep black gloss
out of it, and then we'll finish it off
with the best of show wax.
Big benefit of using the microfiber for that initial step
is that it's gonna work a little bit quicker
and be a little bit more capable
of removing a heavier defect than foam will.
Now we're going to move to the orange correcting foam.
It's important to make sure you have the pad
as centered as possible on the backing plate.
You also have that center cooling hole
to help do that with.
If the pad is off center,
you may experience increased vibration
through the orbital.
Now we'll use the polish.
Same deal here with the fresh pad,
we're going to swirl from the inside out
or the outside in.
Get a nice even layer on there,
and then we'll quickly rub it in with the dome lid.
All righty.
And now we're ready to go.
We've got the majority of the work done
with our initial pass or our initial step.
Now we're gonna come in and just remove this haze.
Add as much depth and gloss to the panel as we can.
Complete polish is also capable of removing fine defects
if there are any left behind other than the haze.
We're gonna do only about three passes this time.
This is gonna be a much quicker step
because we've already done the majority of the work.
So now we're just getting that last bit.
(polisher whirs)
Quick spread pass.
(polisher speeds up)
Gonna work at speed four.
And we're just gonna do three passes.
And slow down.
Pull it off the panel.
And flip to a clean side of our plush edgeless towel,
and we'll wipe off the complete polish.
Easy wipe off, just flip, and we'll get that last bit.
You can see now the paint is much darker and more crisp
than it was when we started.
All of those heavy swirl marks are gone.
And we've achieved that appearance that we're looking for.
No defects.
So now, we're gonna come in with our best of show liquid wax
and add even more color, depth, and clarity
to this black finish.
And we're also gonna protect it with this product.
This will lay down a layer of protection
and enhance the finish even further.
Best of show is a carnauba-based wax
so it's gonna be better at achieving
that really warm color, depth, and clarity
out of a dark finish like black that we have here.
And again, we'll swirl it on a pad.
I'm not gonna use quite as much.
That's enough to probably do this whole hood,
but we're just gonna spread it out over this small section.
When you're waxing with an orbital,
there's not a lot of work involved.
We're gonna bump down to speed three,
you could even go as low as two, if you wanted.
You just want a good consistent rotation,
and the goal here is to get a thin, even layer applied.
We don't want to over apply it,
and we don't need to spend a lot of time.
I'm only gonna do one or two quick passes.
(polisher whirs)
You also don't need to work as slow.
You can go much quicker here.
Just a nice even layer with no heavy thick spots.
Normally you would want to let this set up
and dry to a haze,
which can take 20-30 minutes, depending on the environment.
But for demonstration sake, we'll go ahead
and wipe it off right now.
Give it a quick flip and a final buff.
And now we have the end result that we want.
It's really, really glossy,
tons of depth,
and really as much as depth
as we're probably gonna get out of this black.
Really, really good looking panel now.
All those defects are gone.
For more information on the three-step process
and the products that we used here,
visit griotsgarage.com,
and as always, have fun in your garage.