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Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Smyrna/Vinings, Georgia
Plenty of black car guys, when my best friend bought a 63 SS Impala Convertible, 300-4 speed black black, I was done. And that was in 1965! Ordered a track pak tri power black 442 and have never looked back. Just love black cars.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 53,813
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From: Plantation Florida USAF(Retired) 1966-1990
U.S. Air Force
St. Jude Donor '05 thru '26
NCM Sinkhole Donor
Black cars are hard to avoid swirls, good buffer, will take care of it. With little practice with buffer, you will be expert.
Here is swirl on my Coupe, and after buffer all gone, and shines.
Last edited by 1bdvet; Feb 25, 2017 at 01:14 PM.
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From: In a parallel universe. Currently own 2014 Stingray Coupe.
C7 of the Year - Modified Finalist 2021
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St. Jude Donor '03 thru '26
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Your car has a great shine to it - well done.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 850
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That is beautiful! I must be older and more out of shape than you because I never get my black vert to that deep of a shine.
Lot's of guys are saying to get the buffer. Is there a consensus on what "the buffer" is? Best brand and model?
Thanks.
And again, nice shine!
Lot's of guys are saying to get the buffer. Is there a consensus on what "the buffer" is? Best brand and model?
Thanks.
And again, nice shine!
Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 4,513
Likes: 1,463
From: Pittsburgh PA
2025 C8 Stingray of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2024 C8 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
NXT Tech 2.0 is good stuff. Beautiful gloss and adds depth to the paint. Nice job, your car looks great!
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Joined: May 2001
Posts: 15,324
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From: Guelph, Ontario
I did a somewhat thorough detail on my 2015 coupe yesterday. I washed then clay bar with mother's california gold. I tried to use a scratch and swirl remover, Meguiar's scratch X2.0, but I couldn't get rid of the swirls by hand. I am going to have to buy a buffer and do it right.
Last edited by Patman; Feb 25, 2017 at 05:05 PM.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 2,209
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From: Just outside a swamp in Florida
I use Scratch X 2.0 myself with a buffer in order to do paint correction. I find it does a great job even with just one pass and it buffs off much easier than most compounds. When I got my C6 the paint was in pretty rough shape but as you can see from the before/after shot, one pass with a UDM random orbital buffer and Scratch X 2.0 pretty much eliminated the imperfections:
