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(15-08-2010 08:18 PM)PrevanP Wrote:  Being new to detailing, I have read that it is easy to cause damage to your car if you dont know how to use these machines. How difficult is it really and how do you go about learning the correct way of using these machines?

Rotary polishers have a bad name in so far as causing damage when used in-correctly.

Sure if you are silly with the machine and ignore some of the golden rules you can damage your paint, but by and large damage is a result of carelessness, rather than the machine itself.

If you work slowly and pay attention to what you are doing you should be fine. Small things like keeping the pad flat, avoiding edges/corners/ridges and keeping panel temperatures in check are the most important.

I usually tell guys just learning the machine to play with it using a soft pad, finishing polish and low speed (setting 1 or 2) until they get a feel for the machine. Using the above mentioned pad/polish/speed combination it is highly unlikely that you will cause any major damage, even if you got totally carried away