Part 1 - How To Pick the Right Car Polisher for your Detail Project

Mike Phillips explains the differences between the Porter Cable Polisher, Meguiar's Polisher, Griot's Garage Polisher, Flex 3401, Makita Rotary Buffer, DeWalt Rotary Buffer, Flex Lightweight Rotary Buffer and Cyclo Polisher.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Porter Cable Polisher
• Meguiar's Polisher
• Griot's Garage Polisher
• Flex 3401
• Makita Rotary Buffer
• DeWalt Rotary Buffer
• Autogeek
• Mike
• Phillips

[marlo916]

i dont have a da buffer, but i do have a black & decker da palm sander with no variable speed settings, and uses velcro pad, i wonder if i use this with a velcro buffing pad to remove the swirls on my car?

[autogeek]

@marlo916

I actually get asked this question all the time and the answer is "no". The majority of all palm sanders don't have the power to rotate a foam buffing pad so they won't remove swirls and scratches. All you can do with them is spread out a coat of wax. -Mike

[crazykhmaiboyz]

now how do you clean the pads? or can you not reuse them?

[autogeek]

@crazykhmaiboyz

There's 4-5 ways to clean your pads, I cover this in my new book, "The Art of Detailing" or I have articles on this topic on AutogeekOnline . net There's also videos here on our YouTube Channel. -Mike

[SkateDestroy36]

this helped a lot, thank you

[autogeek]

@saik0pod

I've been teaching people all my life how to work by hand followed by how to work by machine. After a person learns how easy it is to get better results faster by machine then they always want to move up to machine polishing. -Mike

[saik0pod]

@autogeek I was actually in the market for a buffer for my explorer. but they are wayy to expensive, so I just bought some towels and wax. You should do a video on proper hand waxing lol

[autogeek]

@saik0pod

People are different and have different likes... if we only had one polisher people would complain we had no selection... :)

-Mike

[saik0pod]

wow so many buffers