Buffing Made Easy With Presta Products
Presta Products are water based compounds are very easy to clean out of jambs, require very little product to use and they are very inexpensive as the typical gallon of compound or polish sells for about $38.00-$45.00 per gallon. The Presta finish will look the same after the car has been washed or set out in the sun!
Light and Dark color cars for a show car shine:
Step 1. Wet sand with 1200-2000 grit then begin buffing with Presta Ultra Cutting Crème with a white twisted wool pad. Twisted wool is very important as it cuts twice as fast as non-twisted wool pad. If you aren’t sure what type of pad you have ask your paint store. Place a quarter-sized glob on the panel and place the center of the buffer on top of this glob as this will keep you from slinging compound all over the place. Wool pads are designed to cut fast only at high speeds between 2300-2800 RPM’s. If you are afraid to run the buffer this fast then throw the wool pad away and get a cutting foam pad and anticipate on spending twice as much time buffing. Now buff a 2’x2’ square at a time with the Ultra Cutting Crème until all the scratches in that area are gone.
Step 2. Once you have removed your scratches with the Ultra Cutting Crème switch to a yellow wool pad and buff at the same RPM’s with Presta Chroma 1500 Polish. Start with a drop the size of a dime and work a 2’x2’ area. If you ever have a greasy surface then you used way too much polish. 2-3 quarter sized blobs of Presta 1500 will do an ENTIRE full size pickup hood! If a show car shine is not needed you can stop here.
Step 3. Now switch to a foam polishing pad and Presta Chroma 2000 Polish. Foam pads work best around 1500-1800 RPM’s. Start with a blob the size of a dime and work a 2’x2’ area. Complete the panel then with the remaining compound that is in your pad after spritzing the panel with Presta Aurora 4000 Spray N’ Shine. This will pull the polish out of the pad and break it down into a finer polish. Repeat this step as many times as you like if you are looking for a very deep show car shine.
Short cut: Light colored cars in a production shop:
Follow step one from above. With the Ultra Cutting Crème left on the panel switch to a yellow wool pad and spritz the panel with Aurora 4000. Buff at 2300-2800 rpm’s working a 2’x2’ area at a time until the panel is complete. This will provide a great finish on 99% of your light colored cars in a production shop.
Presta Products will work with foam pads, but you will NEVER find a foam-cutting pad that will cut as fast a wool-cutting pad. If you use foam pads anticipate using more product and time to buff and this is true with any compound line out there!