Polishing the body only seems like an easy task. But in fact
there are subtleties that affect the process, and the result. We will list the
main mistakes of beginner detelers and tell how to fix them in order to polish
correctly.
Body polishing takes place on the street
As a rule, a beginner polisher is a person who bought a set
for polishing a car and he can’t wait to try it out. Since there is no special
box for polishing, you have to choose between the garage and the street. But
since the garage is usually too crowded and dull, polishing the body takes
place on the street - and this is the first mistake.
The car is not prepared
After visiting the car wash, the car seems clean. But it
only seems. After a contactless washing, static contaminants from soot and fine
sand remain on it, which are held on the body with a thin grease film. Static
pollution is practically not noticeable in normal lighting, but it will
certainly appear in the form of scratches at the stage of finishing polishing.
Dangerous places are not pasted
Novice polishers are always in a hurry and do not pay enough
attention to preparation. They want to quickly take a polisher and start to
bring beauty, but they forget about security. Plastic, aluminum, and chrome
parts in the polishing area can receive serious damage that cannot be fixed.
You do not want to infuriate the customer?
Follow the recommendations from the forums
If you look at a dozen reports on the "Drive" and
thematic forums, it becomes clear that the local polishers do not have a clear
and uniform methodology. Some are constantly experimenting and learning from
their mistakes, others scoff, others ask if polishing a car with a drill or
polishing a car without a car is possible. All this resembles medieval
medicine, which definitely should not be trusted.
Wrong choice of circles and pastes
You can’t just buy a machine and start polishing. At a
minimum, the manufacturer's instructions for polishing wheels and pastes should
be studied. If polishing at random, you get one of two things: either you
remove too much varnish and make the next polish impossible, or spend the whole
day on work that can be done in an hour.
Clogged circles
Often there are polishers in whom the polishing wheel is
covered with a thick layer of paste. Many do not notice the problem - it seems
to them that the more paste is in contact with the varnish, the better. But
this is a mistake, so it is impossible to polish.
Polishing without a thickness gauge
Only an experienced and very short-sighted polisher can
afford to determine the thickness of the varnish on the eye. If you do not
measure the thickness of the varnish on all elements, it is easy to make a
mistake, especially in places with a thin layer of varnish: at the corners and
joints of the panels.
Poor lighting
In poor lighting, proper polishing is not possible. Firstly,
you will not be able to properly prepare the car - small bitumen splashes,
brake dust and insect traces will go unnoticed. Secondly, it is easy not to see
the border of polishing - you polish one element several times, and skip the
other. To get more ideas, check out: car buffer
How to polish the body correctly
1.
Polish the body only in a dry, clean, heated
room.
2.
Wash the vehicle with a two-phase wash before
polishing and remove stubborn dirt.
3.
Use masking tape to cover the headlights,
moldings, roof rails, badges and other details located in the polishing zone.
4.
Do not listen to self-taught.
5.
Learn the polishing methodology. At a minimum,
follow the manufacturer's instructions for polishing wheels and pastes.
6.
Blow polishing wheels as they fill with paste.
7.
Use a thickness gauge before each polishing.
8.
Polish in a well-lit room. Ideally, use a
combination of linear diffused cold light sources and spot heat lamps.
