Picked up a great bit of kit, a das 6 pro polisher

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I've never used one before, and was a little apprehensive, but as I was half thinking of a bonnet respray I figured try this.
£100 for machine, £9 x 2 for foam pads, £10 for a not too abrasive cutting compound .

I needn't have worried, used loads of water and took it really easy.

Really pleased with results

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2006 4.2 Supercharged, Java Black

looking good mate.

I was the same when i first got mine but you soon realise it's virtually impossible to damage the paint work with a dual action. you'll soon start to use less water for deeper scratches and be more effective at removing swirl marks. Ash
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2016 SDV8 AB

Cheers Ash.


I think I might practice on my in-laws old Audi  Alcohol and eBay is never a good mix

2006 4.2 Supercharged, Java Black

What cutting compound did you use?
I've bought a dual action polisher but still not had the bottle to try using it. Your car look beautiful mate  The reason women's minds are cleaner than a mans mind is that women change their minds more often!
When women say fine a mans in deep doodoo as fine has so many meanings.

I use Scholl S17 and S40 as my medium and fine compounds respectively. Good results on a Blue FFRR. 2011 Stornaway Grey 5.0SC Autobiography

Thanks mate. I'll order some tomorrow. My FFRR is blue as well but got so many swirls on the paintwork & it'll great to polish her up. The reason women's minds are cleaner than a mans mind is that women change their minds more often!
When women say fine a mans in deep doodoo as fine has so many meanings.

I did mine a few weeks ago and all I did was go over it with a clay bar and then used the pads dry with a dab of Autoglym Ultra Deep Shine polish.
Put a dab of polish in the centre of the pad and wipe it over a small area of bodywork, then turn on the polisher and lightly work over the area until the polish is dry, then wipe off and move on to the next area.

This Fifth Gear segment is what go me researching how to do it.

I even took out a few scratches using 1500 grit wet-n-dry and then polished with the same polish and you can't see a trace of the scratches now.  

Thanks ambulancekid


I used Meguires "ultimate" compound. The description said it was good stuff
And easy to use . Used Hex-Logic pads, again went for "light / medium" rather than "heavy"

I watched an old Wheeler Dealers and Edd China said "lots of water...."
so actually sprayed bonnet with a hose first.
Plenty of compound on the pad.
Went on slowest speed , Kept checking after a few passes , then when I realised it was working, upped the speed a little.

Used some Poorboys "black hole" and Wax
Machined on, hand buffed with microfibre cloth, as nervous about "dry" buffing! Alcohol and eBay is never a good mix

2006 4.2 Supercharged, Java Black

Dry buffing saves having to clean all the splats off the glass, rubbers and black plastic parts.  

Never used water with mine, whats the thinking behind using water ? 2021 P400 Silicon Silver AB
Gone 2011 Bournville TDV8 VSE
Gone 2008 Black Canadian HSE LUX

Gives the polish a longer working time as some have a tendency to dry out too quickly. Im a rotary man myself but not great with it! Present :2008 TDV8 HSE
Gone Audi A5 2.7TDI
Gone Discovery 3 HSE
Gone Mercedes CLK
Gone Range Rover 2.5 DSE

Never polished with a DA or such but have used 2 bucket and woolen mitt for yonks now

The mitt is starting to get on a bit though! FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.

the DA polisher is great. I got into it a while back its very easy but yime consuming. also armed myself with some 2000-3000 wet and dry which was scary the first time but so easy and amazing. watched loads of YouTube videos. Made getting the deeper scratch's out that little bit easier. [img]http://www.fuelly.com/driver/rob2529/range-rover[img/]
04, 4.4V8, Vogue Oslo Blue with LPG.
"You can sleep in your car, BUT you can't race your house!!!!"

If something can't be fixed with a hammer....... You have yourself an electrical fault!

I've just spent 90 minutes trying to polish linear/ probably brush mark type scratches out of the black rear most window pillars either side of the car ... prob using the wrong stuff but used a heavy duty rotary polisher, Farecla polishing foam pad, Farecla G3, a hose to spray water over the pillars and then machine polished over it with AG SRP before finishing with a microfibre cloth..

They come up very shiny (the standard finish seems to be matt/ satin) but the scratches are pretty much still there... getting very frustrated with the black around the windows when the sun hits these pillars and the rubbers..