Chemical Guys do have a lot of great
products. We use quite a few ourselves. 10% across the range is an excellent discount. Thanks Rex
Tried out the ZFE 710 Polisher with the supplied Pads. I really like the Polisher. It has more than enough power with the 710watt motor. Does not bog down at all under pressure and it is very easy to hold and manouevre across the paint surface. However, i do not think much of the supplied Pads, but they will do the job.
At this point i had better let you know what happened when the Polishers arrived. I tested each Polisher before sending them. Five of the six were good, but one was dead on arrival. Ah...Crap! They came with a one year warranty - but i did not fancy sending the broken Polisher back to China. My son Damien is pretty handy when it comes to repairing power tools. He pulled the back off and found a wire had not been fed through the inner casing correctly, which meant the outer casing had just been forced over the top of the wire resulting in a cracked inner casing. He reconnected the wire, fed it through the casing correctly and reassembled it. We had to just tape the rear casing back on, but the Polisher now works like a charm.
I had already tried the Polisher with Lake Country CCS Pads and it did a very good job of polishing.
Yesterday i tested the Polisher with the supplied Pads. Chose the stiffest Wave Pad , which is an orange colour. The test car was my 68 Gulfstream Aqua coupe which was painted 3-4 years ago. I very rarely use water to wash this car. I use quick detailer and microfibre once a month to remove dust, then apply a wax. This has now resulted in some marring of the paint surface, particularly on the rear quarter panel. The first job was to eliminate the marring.
Here is the car -
I fitted the Orange Pad to the Polisher, gave the Pad a spritz with quick detailer, then put 4 pea sized dobs on the Pad using Menzerna PF 2400 before dabbing the Pad on a section of the quarter panel. You would normally Polish an area of about 400mm x 400mm.
Turned the Polisher to speed no.1 then spread the Polish evenly across the area to be buffed -
Worked the Polish for about 4 minutes on speed no.4 using slow steady movements overlapping about 50% each pass. As the polish began to go clear i backed off to speed No.3 for another minute before wiping off the excess Polish with a Microfibre cloth -
Followed this up with another stage using Menzerna SF4000 on a Green Wave Pad
Quite satisfied with the end result. Marring is nowgone from the panel and the gloss is restored.
So why don`t i like the Pads? The Orange Pad is not stiff enough to give a good cutting action, and when i took it off the Polisher i pulled at the Pad and actually tore it a bit. Do yourselves a favour, buy some Pads from Waxit or Chemguys taking advantage of the discounts on offer. All you need is 2 stiff Pads, 2 Medium Polishing Pads and 2 Fine Pads.
The ZFE 710 is a very good Polisher, but will perform best with decent Pads attached.
Rocket.