darylrsv4

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Picked up an alpine white 14' BMW 435i a couple weeks ago and has light swirling. Rather than pay a detailer, I ordered a TorqX polisher kit with 3 pads and 4 sample bottles of compounds and polishes. One of the bottles is V36 which seems to be popular.

Is there another swirl remover you guys would recommend? Thanks..

zmcgovern4

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Alpine white is relatively hard, but since it is white, you can accomplish a lot in just once step.

I personally really like the Griot's Garage Correcting Cream for medium polishing/swirl removal.

Product Review: Griot’s Garage BOSS Correcting Cream by Zach McGovern

darylrsv4

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Zach, are you a fan of the Meguiars 105/205 combo?

zmcgovern4

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For light swirling you shouldn't need a heavy compound.

To answer your question, no, I feel M105 is a dated product and there are superior cutting compounds available now.

M205, however, is an excellent polish. It is one of our most used products and has been for 5 years or so.

JamieS29

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Meguiars Swirl X remover. Works awesome, use it on all of my cars. I get it either from Walmart or Amazon.

nathantse

Do you use a polisher or by hand?

Or can it even be done by hand lol

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+1
M105 works, but because M100 and M101 have such better working time and lower dusting, I have not touched 105 in a while. We use wool pads alot and removing 105 from every crease of the car is a PITA. 100/101, however will wipe off super easy and doesn't cake on.

205 is my favorite polish by far. The only time I will use something else is if 205 is too aggressive (which is rare) or if we are coating the car after the 2nd stage, than we will often times use Essense or Primer Polish.

darylrsv4

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Any opinions on V36?

zmcgovern4

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Sorry, I have never used any of the Chemical Guys compounds or polishes.

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And that is probably for a very good reason

darylrsv4

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Why is 101 so expensive compared to 100? A 32oz bottle of 101 is $60 compared to 100 at $27 for the same size bottle. 101 states its specially formulated for foam pads which is what I have. What is the difference in the 2, results, effort wise?

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I have used 101 and 100 as my main 2 compound for the last few years.

101 (the US version) has more cut than 100. I remember when they started bringing bottles of 101 in it was stupid expensive, the prices on the market now have come down, but still expensive as you can see.

100 is what I use majority of the time because it finishes down much better from my experience. On lighter metallic cars you won't see much difference but on solid colors, 101 clearly leaves a worse finish which means the second (finishing) stage will require more time.

I use both products with some kind of wool pad majority of the time since our customers demand as perfect of a correction as possible. Foam or microfiber does not have anywhere near the cut you get with wool pads. If the paint is severely marred and has heavy RIDS throughout the entire car, I go straight to wool and either 100/101. 101 is a thicker and "grittier" product than 100.

Back in the day when MF pads were the craze we used them quite a bit since they cut better than the foam pads we would use before MF became popular. However after going wool, I almost never use anything else for heavy correction jobs.

Obviously you follow up with a foam pads and some finishing polish after the wool to remove the DA haze (205/85rd/Essense/etc.)

The thing I noticed with 101 is it corrects plastic quite a bit better than 100 so on bumpers that are really bad I'd use that product almost always.

101 dusts differently. It creates more of a wet/sticky dust than 100/105 so when you cleanup the vehicle after the compounding stage, 101 takes more time to remove the dust. 100 and 105 has more of a dry dust that wipes off with no effort and majority you can just blow off the car with a strong air blower and crevices with a blower and some mf towel/gentle brush combo.

Honestly, if I was to keep just one compound, I'd go 100 all day. I rarely get a car that is SO bad that it needs 101. Most jobs 100 does more than adequate.

darylrsv4

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Appreciate the lengthy write up.