Before and after on a 2007 F-150 I did last month made me question my whole process

I got this truck in the bay that looked like someone keyed it from front to back on both sides. Not deep scratches, just ugly white lines all over the dark blue paint. My old method of wet sanding and buffing by hand would have taken me two days easy and probably still left some haze. So I tried out a DA polisher with a wool pad and some heavy cut compound I had sitting around for years. I hit one test panel and the difference was night and day in about 20 minutes. The whole job took me 4 hours total and the owner asked me if I repainted the doors. Now I'm wondering why I stuck with hand work for so long on this kind of damage. Has anyone else switched to a DA for scratch removal and seen way better results?

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sanchez.blake28d ago

Doesn't it always work out that way? You fight with the old method for years, then one tool flips everything. It's like how I avoided getting a cordless ratchet forever, now I don't touch my air tools.

diana15528d ago

Grew up with my dad's old tools that were all beat up. He had this 1970s Craftsman drill that weighed a ton and smoked if you pushed it too hard. Finally broke down and bought a new Milwaukee hammer drill last year and holy cow it's like night and day. Makes you wonder why we put up with the junk for so long just cause it's what we knew.