http://www.amazon.com/Meguiars-G3500-DA-Po...l/dp/B009OBVRY4

Is the tool in the link above any good? Most probably cannot be used for any professional work for sure, but I'm looking for an affordable and novice-intermediate tool. Otherwise with a budget of RM300 ~ RM600, what alternative can I get?

This post has been edited by TDUEnthusiast: Oct 11 2013, 10:07 AM

Edit: Nevermind.

This post has been edited by TDUEnthusiast: Nov 19 2013, 12:54 AM

Something like this?

I took this picture off the internet. I don't really know much about this, but compounding / polishing is normally the way to remove those spots. To my knowledge they happen due to the lack of paint protection, and/or the lack of car paint care, e.g failure to wash the car as often as required, but I stand to be corrected.

You could try using detailing clay to remove the spots, which may work if they're not too severe I believe.

It's pretty nice working with Meg's UC, UP and UPW. UP smells like the vanilla filling in twinkies, while UPW smells like white chocolate.

Do you mean the Supreme Shine Microfiber towels? If you paid RM5x for one you've paid too much. There are packs of 3 being sold for an average of RM60 or so. You will want at least 3 towels if you wish to work with the Megs compound, polish and wax, or just in case if one of towels becomes too dirty to be used.

If you are working by hand, I would probably suggest getting at least two of the Meguiar's foam pads or the microfiber applicator pads if you're going to work with both polish and wax, although I recommend more than two since there's a chance of dropping one of the pads while in use (which I have experienced a lot of times myself ), so if there's anything you can use another pad if one drops onto the ground. I used to use SwirlX by hand for polishing. It's pretty easy to use and quite nice smelling too. Otherwise you can consider Ultimate Polish since it's roughly around the same price as SwirlX.

From my experience, you can use wax to remove it, although a better solution is probably to clay and then polish, or clay and wax if you do not have polish.

I don't know where the black stains come from, but from my observation they seem to come from all the rubber parts / parts where there is double sided tape. . Aside from that it's probably from the environment / rain and etc. You can polish then wax without claying, but only if your car's surface is already free from embedded contaminants, otherwise you will probably be removing the stains while causing scratches / swirls to appear.

Washing alone will not help, or at least it won't from my experience. I have experienced the black stains on my car hood quite many times as well even with recent waxing, but the wax is cheap. What I'd do is to take SwirlX (my polish) and rub the hood after claying till the dirt is gone, then put a layer of wax. I have switched to a better wax (or sealant to be specific) though and I haven't experienced such a problem, for now.

Megs Ultimate Paste Wax

Hmm. I guess you are right then. I don't really know what kind of wax the Kit Car Paste Wax / Metallic Wax is, but it is probably the kind you've described it to be.