Are the hand held electric buffers any good? the ones that you can but from Argos or Halfords? thing they are going for £15 to £25

Ray

 

Hand held?? What do you do with the others then? The mind boggles.
Alcazar

 

To be honest m8, I think they're cr4p. Used to work in a yachtbuilders where we used prof. ones to polish up the moulds & hulls. They were superb.
Got given one of the handheld cheapy ones at Xmas cos I'm always polishing the car. I'd have got better results tying a duster to the dogs tail & calling him a good boy. Needless to say it is now out of service and will not be used again.
Alasdair

 

a word of warning....dont use one on scooby paint...esp if you are untrained in the use of them. Most cheap buffing machines rotate at too higher speed and you'll land up "burning" your paint then you'll be having a respray. Saw a job today where a guy asked me to prep his car but could I look at the paint first. It was on a red BMW 3yrs old. I refused to quote and told him to get a respray...he had gone thru to the undercoat on just about every swage line and a couple of place on the roof....he tried polishing out dirt from the paint as the car had been parked by a railway line car park nr London by the previous owner.

You bin warned....all do it by hand...polishing and waxing that is ;-)

With all the cars I have prepared I have never used a buffing machine!

[Edited by Mark Underwood - 2/21/2003 9:49:14 PM]