{"id":1048,"date":"2010-05-23T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2014-07-18T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:56:26","slug":"what-are-some-of-the-go-to-polish-pad-combos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/what-are-some-of-the-go-to-polish-pad-combos\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Some of the Go-To Polish \/ Pad Combos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My go-to polish \/ pad combos come from a couple different manufactures.\u00a0 I like the\u00a0Lake Country <\/a>lineup of pads, both the tangerine and cyan hydrotech pads, and also the classic LC flat pads. There are times when a classic pad will work better and times when a hydrotech will outperform the others.\u00a0 That is why it is necessary for me to carry both lines as I never know how the paint will react in different situations.<\/p>\n

As far as compounds and polishes go, my manufacturers range from Meguiar’s<\/a>, Menzerna<\/a>, and Optimum<\/a> (outside use only).\u00a0 I have switched from the classic 83 \/ 80 combo to the newest 105<\/a> \/ 205<\/a> combo from Meguiar’s.\u00a0 From the Menzerna lineup, I use a bunch:\u00a0 Power Gloss<\/a>, Super Intensive Polish<\/a>, Intensive Polish<\/a>, Power Finish <\/a>and 85rd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the combos I start off with, based on the color of car, the level of correction desired, the end result needed, and the hardness of paint, are the following:<\/p>\n

(most aggressive to least aggressive)<\/p>\n

LC Purple Foam Wool pad<\/a> with Meguiars 105<\/a><\/p>\n

LC Purple Foam Wool pad with Menzerna SIP<\/a><\/p>\n

LC orange <\/a>\/ Hydrotech cyan<\/a> with Meguiars 105<\/p>\n

LC Orange \/ Hydrotech Cyan with Menzerna SIP<\/p>\n

LC white pad<\/a> \/ hydrotech tangerine with Menzerna SIP<\/p>\n

LC white pad \/ hydrotech tangerine<\/a> with Menzerna Power Finish<\/a><\/p>\n

LC white pad \/ hydrotech tangerine with Meguiars 205<\/a><\/p>\n

LC black pad<\/a> with Menzerna 85rd<\/a><\/p>\n

LC blue pad<\/a> with Menzerna 85rd<\/p>\n

Those are my personal\u00a0go-to products.\u00a0 I have others that I can resort to based on given situations, but I use those the most.\u00a0 Hope that helps you to decide between the pad \/ product choices!<\/p>\n

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With so many different polishes and buffing pads out there, how do you know which combinations to work with? Eric Schuster of Envious Auto Detailing lists some of his most common polish and pad combinations to help you get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,35,33],"tags":[139,405,406,401,300,403,301,404,137,99,302,136,402,229,247,350,101,178,407],"class_list":{"0":"post-1048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-buffers","7":"category-imperfection-removal","8":"category-pads","9":"category-polishes","10":"tag-lake-country","11":"tag-lake-country-black-pad","12":"tag-lake-country-blue-pad","13":"tag-lake-country-cyan-hydro-tech-pad","14":"tag-lake-country-orange-light-cut-pad","15":"tag-lake-country-purple-foamed-wool","16":"tag-lake-country-tangerine-hydro-tech-pad","17":"tag-lake-country-white-pad","18":"tag-meguiars","19":"tag-meguiars-m105","20":"tag-meguiars-m205","21":"tag-menzerna","22":"tag-menzerna-intensive-polish","23":"tag-menzerna-po85rd","24":"tag-menzerna-power-finish","25":"tag-menzerna-power-gloss","26":"tag-menzerna-super-intensive-polish","27":"tag-optimum","28":"tag-polish-and-pad-combinations"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}