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Originally Posted by bkal
BTW, TWI is not a real polish, despite what they say on the package. A true polish is designed to microscopically remove small layers of clear coat to eliminate swirl marks. TWI will never do that, by hand (almost impossible to remove swirls by hand anyways), or by machine. Nobody mentioned it, but I figure I would state it before someone takes their propoganda as truth.
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I think you may have your definition of polish a little confused. With any kind of polish/compound you are pretty much sanding out your scratch. A company like 3M that supplys body shops will cary multiple grades of polishing compounds to remove scratches ranging in I believe 1500 and finer. Then you get into glazes that remove the scratches left behind from the compound. Doing these two steps with a machine warms the paint/clear-coat and pushes it around slightly to fill fine scuffs and scratches. If the operator goes to harsh or uses to little product you will get those nasty machine swirls from over heating the paint. This is why foam pads were invented, its much harder to swirl paint when using the right pad mixed with the right compound or glaze, buts its still possible. Finally you get into waxing, this fills the last of your scratches and gets rid of any small machine swirls left over. Finish it off with you detailer spray to remove any lingering wax reidue that might be hazing your super finish.
When you do all three of these steps you can use any companys product and achieve comparable results.
