What is Mezerna's Final Polish after all?

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imported_jgv

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It's supposed to be a mild polish, to follow the Intensive Polish. Well, I'm beginning to question this.



Lately I've been using our 3M PI-III Machine Polish, their final step before our Finishing Glaze, and this to remove any haze left by the DACP. It works, with a polishing pad it lives the surface clean, but this weekend I tried the same with the Menzerna's FP. It left, as usually a glass like surface but did not remove those haze marks from the DACP w/ the cut pad and the PC.



My thoughts: It is a different kind of product, it works and flashes different. It is very mild but, doesn't remove the light haze left by DACP but prepares the surface in an incredible way, ready as it can be for....PO73? Their Sealant Wax? Are they part of a process? Well, I've followed with that wax, and as expected great results, but then I noticed I should have used the IP or even DACP with a polishing pad, to remove the haze.



I don't know yet what it is, but I'm sure it's not a simple final polish. Doesn't work like one, doesn't buff like one. Yet, great surface after it.
 
By the way, as I've not used the Menzerna polishers separate before, I hadn't noticed this yet. What I like about the DACP is that it removes light cutting compound marks easy with the PC, so I've been using it. Since then it was the first time I tested the Menzerna FP with it, though I use the Fast Cut regularly before the DACP.
 
I have some FP which I plan to use on a problem car, but not until swirls and all visible hazing have already been removed (in my case, by Einszett Paint Polish, which I highly recommend). My thoughts--still just theory--are that the smoother the paint surface, the less reflected light is scattered, and therefore the better the shine. I don't think you can ever get a paint surface perfectly smooth, but the FP might help.



Thus, I'll be using FP to make my paint "smoother," but not to remove hazing or hide swirls, or to enhance gloss with glaze-type oils. Will I notice an improvement in shine or gloss? I'll let you know.
 
I'm literally on break right now from using the Final Polish with a PC and a CMA white pad. My car was new in November, and I don't have a major problem with swirls. The FP actually did a really got job of tackling the one problem area I had, which was the A pillars on my Mini Cooper. They were highly swirled, and the FP removd the swirls and shined them up very nicely. :up



I am finiding that it is not the easiest to remove, but humidity is ultra high today so that may be affecting it. I like the product, though.
 
Well, after having used some polishes this weekend, today I went to my garage to clean and remembered to clean the product bottles from the remaining residues on top of them. What I've found is that the dried residues of DACP, 3M Machine Polish, Einzsett Paint Polish and others, are like a paste that becomes dust when you touch it. On the Menzerna's FP the residues resembled more like plastic, like when you clean a paint brush with dried paint and you have all those paint plastic films residue. A film, that's what best describes what I think FP lives on the surface, of what? I don't know.
 
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