New To Paint Care: Which Polisher?

[bhsballer76]

Just bought an 04 Silverado and it has some paint flaws. Im looking to buy a decent polisher to maintain the paint as best as possible.

 

Can anyone reccomend one that goes for a decent price?

 

Also, My paint seems to have small specs in the clear coat. I tried a calybar on the paint today and although it helped clean the paint, it didnt help with the specs in th clear coat.

 

Can anyone tell me what caused these and how I can correct them?

 

 

 

[tyhuck]

I recently tried Meguires Ultimate Compound to take swirl marks out of my paint. It worked great. That might help. Its available almost everywhere and you put it on like a coat of wax.

[RyanbabZ71]

Probably more info than you need to know

 

http://www.autogeek.net/dual-action-polisher.html

 

http://www.autogeek.net/buffer-polisher.html

 

I bought a cyclo last yr and I love it. Use it on my vehicles and also have brush attachements for the house. The only con is it doesnt fit into tight places so I still have to do some areas by hand

 

As far as those white specs I have no idea what they are but my old indigo blue (2000) had them and I could never get them to go away. Almost like they were very small paint chips

[N2Black]

I have the Porter Cable 7424XP. This thang is great. If you have a dark vehicle it does wonders. I also have a cheap buffer that does not even come close. It is expensive but you will get your money out of it.

[Superperv23]

The specs and spots are basically pitting in the clear coat and likely caused by environmental damage. Lots of people will tell you that water based clear coat is your problem as it is softer than solvent based, may or may not be true. The most likely cause is that the truck was either not washed all that regularly allowing contaminates to pit the clear coat or was in an environment with lots of toxins that ate away at the paint.

 

You can try an electric buffer with a a correcting pad but you can really mess up the paint if you don't know what you are doing. Your best bet is to head to a good detailer or body shop and price them doing it and then consider all of your options.