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      10-20-2014, 09:29 AM   #1
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Be Careful of Who You Hit When Fleeing the Scene!

So my buddy calls me up a 9:00 AM this morning asking me if I had my buffer in my hands. I told him that I was waxing something but her name wasn't "car". Of all the nerve, he knows that I am either sleep or "working" that damn early in the morning! He's a bachelor too so he KNOWS better!

Here's what happened. He's turning into a parking lot and some guy with no license decides to pull out and swipe the back end of his car. Realizing what he did, the guy decides to run. Bad decision. My buddy is a detective with the local PD and he was driving his unmarked Charger with a HEMI. So he chases the guy for a block and pulls him over. I told him that it must be nice having a cop around when you need one!

Bottom line is, this bumper will need to painted in order to make it 100% perfect, which means that he would have to turn it in to the motor pool. He didn't want to do that because he knows that he would get a hooptie to drive while they take their time fixing his. He wasn't having any of that so he called me. Here's the damage he showed up with.











Damage like this is going to require a more aggressive polisher than the PC-7424XP if you want to fix it sometime this week. At the same time, a rotary polisher could have easily MELTED this rear fascia considering how flexible it is. Since he was in a hurry, I had to just blast the job out. So I broke out some 3M Perfect-It™ I Rubbing Compound, 3M Perfect-It™ II Machine Polish, a flat surfaced green pad, a flat surfaced white pad and my trusty ol' Flex-3401VRG.

A couple of things to note. Normally I would have washed and clayed that area, and wet sanded that remaining scratch out of the paint. However, due to time restraints, I just did the "hook a brutha' up" repair. If you saw the finished product, you wouldn't have ever known that this car was in an accident. I told him to make sure that he reported it to Car Fax.

Here's the final results.












And because you all know that I never fake the funk, here's the flash test.








He asked me what I wanted for the job. I told him to dance like Calvin & Hobbs. He said he'll meet me at Texas Roadhouse.

My Lord, I would have loved to seen the face of that guy when his rear view mirror filled up with Christmas lights!



That's all folks!

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Excellent job, amazing what the right tool and some skill can do.
It's funny how much of a scratch many times is leftovers from the other vehicle.
A good clean, maybe some wetsanding, a 3 stage , course-medium-fine pad combo will get you a pretty good result.

Got the exact same flex machine, and just ordered a Rupes mini today btw
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... Got the exact same flex machine, and just ordered a Rupes mini today btw
Hopefully you can cancel your purchase of that Rupes. It's nothing more than a overpriced PC-7424XP. If you are experienced with the PC, the Rupes is not going to give you anything more but a lighter wallet.
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Hopefully you can cancel your purchase of that Rupes. It's nothing more than a overpriced PC-7424XP. If you are experienced with the PC, the Rupes is not going to give you anything more but a lighter wallet.
The reason I got the Rupes was beacause the Flex is too big sometimes.
On the Flex I replaced the original back plate with a small 4 3/8" one and use 145mm pads, just under 5 3/4 inches, and it is too big somtime.

The Rupes mini, not to be confused with the Duetto which is the same size as the Flex, has 3" backplate and 100mm or 4" pads.
I needed a smaller machine to compliment the Flex, and I that is why I ordered the Rupes Mini today, no plans no cancel, oh, and I got a 20% discount on it so that's good too.
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Understandable, but they make a 3" back plate for the PC too. That's what I use for tight places. A heck of a lot cheaper than a Rupes.



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Understandable, but they make a 3" back plate for the PC too. That's what I use for tight places. A heck of a lot cheaper than a Rupes.

Never seen the PC, and since I live in Norway, not the US I don't even know of I can get that over here.
I'm sure its a great machine.

I got a Rupes bag with the mini, a lot of different grade pad's, two different compounds, microfiber and an apron
I did not really need all that stuff, but they just sell it as a kit with the machine.
The Rupes come highly recommended from my Swissvax dealer, and my Swissvax certified detailer friends hwo pretty much only use Rupes machines now. But they usually have a Flex, Festool or Krauss machine too.

I just do this a hobby on my own and the occasional friends car, so I'm no pro, but I do a better job than most polishing shops as I take my time and not rush a car through for maximum profit.
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Never seen the PC, and since I live in Norway, not the US I don't even know of I can get that over here.
I'm sure its a great machine.
Ahhhh.... I completely missed that you're in Norway. You wouldn't want to buy the PC anyway. You want the DAS-6 Pro. The PC is based on US electricity. The DAS-6 is European.
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