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3M Perfect It Triple Polish

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Jellyfishfields
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Post by Jellyfishfields » Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:02 pm

My car had a small paint issue when I picked it up, a strange contaminant of some kind all over the car, but worse on the roof and bonnet.
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It had been ceramic coated some years back, so maybe the remains of that, but not sure. Tried covering the car with Autoglym Magma, then went over it with a clay bar, but it made no difference.

So, onto polishing to try and remove. I used to use Farecla, but as the bottles I had were all quite old I decided to replace the lot with the 3M Perfect It Triple polish/compound, along with new pads etc.

Turned out to be a good move, very happy with how it turned out, also found it easy to use with the Makita rotary. Finished off with a coat of my favourite wax, R222. Difficult to get good photos in the garage, but you get the idea.
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As you can see, next job is to tidy up the garage :)

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Post by rdm05z4 » Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:33 pm

Wow that 3m product is Great!!! Turned a blue looking car in the first photo to a black one!!! Easy paint color change ever!!!! :rofl: All kidding aside results look great nice job!!!
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Post by Jellyfishfields » Fri Nov 12, 2021 10:37 am

rdm05z4 wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:33 pm Wow that 3m product is Great!!! Turned a blue looking car in the first photo to a black one!!! Easy paint color change ever!!!! :rofl: All kidding aside results look great nice job!!!
Yes, it's magic stuff :)
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Post by craig3.2 » Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:58 am

Looking good op :thumbsup:

As said,it looks in the pics as if it's went from Blue to Black,lol :rofl:
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Post by Southwestz4 » Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:12 pm

Great finish ....you haven't seen my garage :o
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Post by Jellyfishfields » Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:09 pm

Thnaks for the comments :thumbsup:

Meant to say, got great service from Elite Car Care, I forgot part of the 3M package and had to reorder. Same day dispatch both times.

Also, these are the best microfibre cloths I've used to date, makes the job much easier.
https://www.in2detailing.co.uk/products ... ling-cloth

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