Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, Ultimate Wax, and more review

[radroach]

Hey guys, I also did a bit of polishing this weekend and waxed with Meguiar's Ultimate Paste Wax. Lightly clay barred the hood, bumper, and headlights with lots of quick detailer and soap. Polishing was done with the Meguiar's G100 Dual Action Polisher and the Microfiber DA correction / polishing system, also hand polishing was done in some spots with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound. I only worked the front of the car to test out the new products, I'm going to do the rest of the car later in steps.

Picture was taken at sunset:





Products I bought / used:

Meguiar's Brilliant Solutions Paint Restoration Kit: If you need detailing essentials then you should buy this kit. Includes Quick detailer, Clay bar, (2) Supreme Shine towels, Gold Class liquid wax, Gold Class shampoo, Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, and a foam applicator. It cost $20. This kit is packed with value.

Meguiar's Microfiber Correction System starter Kit: with my old G100 Dual Action polisher. The DA Microfiber Correction Compound included with this is so awesome, these new polishes break down and wipe off very easily, especially if you use a little quick detailer spray. Cleans great with the microfiber pad cutting disk with the DA polisher on medium speed and wipes off easily after about over a minute of polishing. I had to remove a couple holograms from a light dent repair work done earlier, so I went with this as what I'd consider the more aggressive step using the cutting disk and it cleaned up great.

Though considering how soft this paint is, if you're just removing light swirls and scratches then I recommend using the finishing disk with Meguiar's Ultimate Compound instead, it's a bit softer and less aggressive on the paint, and it will get the job done as easily. You can also use Ultimate Compound as a hand polish with a foam applicator on the tighter areas around the headlights and foglight housing.

Meguiar's Ultimate Paste Wax it's a synthetic blend. It's kind of weird feeling, not very slick after it cures. But when it's in the sun, your car looks like a melty crayola color explosion. Excellent protection. Includes a foam applicator and a small supreme shine towel.

Anyway I'm pretty proud of my new detailing collection so here it is all well arranged:

[Guzic]

The kit is good value for the money. You get some good stuff for the average consumer to work on their car. The only negatives are that Meguiar's over the shelf line is a watered down version of their Detailers and Professional line. The towels (atleast in my experience) are quite horrendous. Try dragging it across your hand smoothly and see how much it catches on your hand.

[radroach]

Originally Posted by Guzic

The towels (atleast in my experience) are quite horrendous. Try dragging it across your hand smoothly and see how much it catches on your hand.

My towels feel pretty fresh to me. Just checked, I have a supreme shine towel that is several years old with lots of use, clean but I just use it to clean my pads, and I have my brand new towels I just ordered, and they both feel super smooth and clean.

Originally Posted by Guzic

The only negatives are that Meguiar's over the shelf line is a watered down version of their Detailers and Professional line.

What I was saying in my review however was the consumer line Ultimate Compound was better for the BRZ paint because it's a lighter, less aggressive formula. I could literally feel the difference in size of the abraisives between my fingers, where the ultimate compound felt much lighter in abraisiveness.

[Guzic]

Originally Posted by radroach

My towels feel pretty fresh to me. Just checked, I have a supreme shine towel that is several years old with lots of use, clean but I just use it to clean my pads, and I have my brand new towels I just ordered, and they both feel super smooth and clean.



What I was saying in my review however was the consumer line Ultimate Compound was better for the BRZ paint because it's a lighter, less aggressive formula. I could literally feel the difference in size of the abraisives between the detailer DA correction compound, where the ultimate compound felt much lighter in abraisiveness.

If the towel feels good, then no complaints here
The Ultimate Compound is lighter and less aggresive because it is watered down, not necessarily because it has less abrasives. A light duty polish will actually be much better as it is a more dedicated formula with low abrasives. The reason why Meg's UC seems so effective is because it contains polishing oils and fillers that fill in the microscratches and defects that is not able to remove. Now, as long as you use a proper technique you will achieve great results so i'm not necessarily knocking your product choice just spreading some friendly advice .

[radroach]

Ah did not realize, Ultimate Compound does contain quite a bit of oils in the product. It does have micro abrasives though that are pretty effective. The detailer line correction compound that I used primarily on the hood though was pretty aggressive: http://www.meguiars.com/en/professio...tion-compound/

[Guzic]

Originally Posted by radroach

Ah did not realize, Ultimate Compound does contain quite a bit of oils in the product. It does have pretty effective micro abrasives though. The detailer line that I used on the hood though was pretty aggressive: http://www.meguiars.com/en/professio...tion-compound/

I try to steer away from anything with fillers and such as I want to be able to see the swirls and damage on my paint so I am able to fix them. Not a big fan of seeing the paint look worse everyday as the fillers slowly pour out.