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- Wool pads have been a staple in the detailing industry for many years. Now, RUPES has released new wool compounding/polishing pads and in this video we discuss how to use and care for them.
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As I have already said in prior videos, this is just the best channel ever. Thanks
Another great video Todd. Thank you 👍
Amazing detail on your video. Instantly liked and subscribed. Thank you sir.
I ended up getting the Maguires 3 inch and 6 inch. I will pick some of these up in the yellow and the blue next month.
Great info I really appreciate the knowledge
Great video and great information
Great episode!
I’ve been using the yellow wool with an AIO for a one step enhancement for a year or so now with great results. Both my cars have harder paints and I find the yellow pad so versatile. I’m planning to try Uno Protect next time.
I’ve been using the yellow wool and Uno Protect on my F80 M3 and it’s so quick and easy it almost feels like cheating. 👍
what kind of cars do you have and how can you tell hard vs soft? just how fast it cuts?
@@calebmc3296 An Audi and a VW. You can tell if your paint is on the harder side or the softer side by easily or difficult defects are removed. Softer paints can be trickier to finish down without any micro marring too.
@@Audittr2108 ty youre a beast
I absolutely love the yellow wool pad but unfortunately couldn’t cut it (no pun intended) on my friends 2014 silver Audi so had to step up to a blue wool
Took me way too long to realise you're "Todd Cooperider with Esoteric" and not "Todd Coupe, writer with Esoteric"
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I just used 3D one with the buff and shine ero pads. I tried using Rupes ultra fine pad with Rupes uno pure to finish but I didn’t see any difference after the finishing stage so I just used the 3D one for the rest of the vehicle. My black 4Runner looks awesome. Hope this helps someone.
Great video sir
What are your thoughts? Blue with 3D speed?
I hope they're able to see this and answer after a year of the video being uploaded.
I have an old car, with NO clearcoat left on the upper half of it. It sat under a tree for 15 years and was covered with sap, being sun baked on. I vigorously washed and scrubbed the sap off, but some sap leeched into the pores of the paint over time. Leaving dark splotches in the paint (with no clearcoat left)
Is a wool buffing pad good enough to scrub and buff it to get the sap out of the porous paint?
The only way to know how much clear coat is left is to take measurements, and have data from other examples of that same type of car to compare it against. As for fixing that, you'd want to try the least aggressive method first, and work your way up the scale as needed to accomplish your goals. No need to break out the sledgehammer if a ball-peen hammer will do the job!
Gets the job done
How long does this blue pad last?
1. when would you use wool instead of microfibre
2. how do these work with rotaries and on headlights?
3. is there a different version for rotaries?
1. Only your test sections will tell you that.
2. You most likely could.
3. These were designed for the D/A. They do have rotary-specific wool pads available.
Newby DIY guy. What about the clear coat on my cars as it relates to this work?
Nobody mentions it. Is it assumed that the clear coat is gone before doing this work? Does the protectant serve the same purpose?
New guy, your clear coat is what you're working on when you are polishing. All of these affect your clear coat and a different way. When leaves are a branch or a twig come across your paint or even sand, there are different size scratches. If you can run your nail across it and don't feel it, you will end up polishing it in many of these ways. If your nail will go inside the scratch, you're going to have to do a fill in. Basically when polishing, you're going to create scratches all over your car again! But this time on purpose lol. These different size scratches can affect your clear coat and different ways. Heavier scratches will take out bigger problems and scratches, but pads that do lighter work and polishes that do lighter work will remove those scratches. It's much like sanding, a heavier grit knocks it out quick, but you have to go to a finer grit each time to polish it out and make it smooth. You have to be very careful and very knowledgeable and practice on something you really don't care about, because you are destined to mess up all along the way. Biggest thing you'll notice will be if you let a spot get too hot and you burn through the clear coat. This literally means your clear coat will get thinner because of the heat. That's why you see them always moving with polishers. Another secret to polishing is you want to keep as much clear coat as possible, so you don't want to destroy this clear coat over and over again with heavier stuff just to take out a few scratches. You're almost never going to get 100% scratch free, you'll be blessed if you ever get it to 80 or 90% and you need to be okay with that.
I always had a confusion that what should we use for newly painted car?? I mean which will be best to give us a mirror look like shine without damaging the color of the newly painted panels
Your test section will tell you that as each clear coat is a bit different. There is no single "best".
Hi would you ever try yellow pad with cut ? Would that be a oddly ground ? Are these a preference over microfibre now ? Thanks
Sorry, do you mean the yellow wool pads for cutting / compounding? If so, yes as that's what they're designed for.
@@Esotericdetail sorry excuse spell check there, thank you , yes yellow wool , so can use with compound or the yellow polish , probably safer if I just go with foam for now 👍🏻, thank you again and for your great content it really cover a lot in a small amount of time, clear info
Hi Todd. How in the world did y'all get that red car to glow like that. That's what I'm after. It extra gloss,shine and gleam . Awesome shine on it. Help me out ok.
All of the secrets and products are here on this channel!
let's take hard paint example, eg., audi silver metallic & your preference... kamikaze wool + banzai or menzerna 400 or rupes blue+blue? there's stubborn areas on audis we find needing isolated correction & more & less aggressive steps. thanks
The only way to answer that is to test it on the car.
ESOTERIC agreed was looking for a generalization relative to that specific oem paint. i've not tried kamikaze pads and was hopeful to read an insight from you v mf pad or blue wool honestly (it's not like i'm taking your feedback verbatim) #yourobservations 🙄
What's difference between microfibre and wool pads? Where would you use one or the other?
They are both for heavy cutting, yet go about doing it differently. It can ultimately come down to what you personally like or prefer to use based on your methods or experience.
Todd, have these wool pads replaced your Megs Microfiber pads or do the microfibers still have a place in your detailing process?
They have not.
I have the blue and yellow and still like MF pads way more.
do they have the same kind of cut?
How would a yellow rupes wool pad combined with perfect finish be, as a one-step?
It would only be good on very hard, lighter colored cars. Otherwise, you run the risk of some haziness caused by the wool.
What speed dial that you’d recommend for using the wool pad?
For compounding, we're typically at 4.5 on the Rupes regardless of pad.
Todd that red car behind you is very very shiny. How can I get a gloss like that ony car sir. I think it's a camaro
It's all about the polishing process...that will provide you with better looks, more clarity, and higher levels of gloss than any product that you can put on it. This is what you need: th-cam.com/video/G-1YIb3KuSo/w-d-xo.html
If have to use which you prefer rupes da coarse or jescar correcting compound
Jescar.
I still like a quality MF cutting pad over the Rupes blue wool. I find MF to cut AND finish better than the blue wool. Thanks for the video.
Do a video test between them 2?
Wool on a rotary tho is unmatched
Do either of the wool pads give a heavier cut than the Meguiars Microfibre cutting pads?
I have a 2002 Lexus pretty beat up paint. Tried the microfiber cutting pads and they didn’t make dent. The blue wool pads cut right through the defects.
It will depend on a lot of factors. The blue wool will probably give a little more cut than the Megs MF Cutting Disc, but remember, it's not always about what cuts better...it's the right pad for the job at hand.
david radovsky interesting.
@@Esotericdetail - So under what circumstance would you consider using the wool pad over the Meg MF pad?
Can I use these wool pads with a DA ? will they give me good results?
They were designed for use with the DA...
What are your thoughts cleaning the wool pads with a spur
It works if you have nothing else, but it isn't close to what compressed air can do.
Why cutting with wool, usualy i use microfiber but does it have some advantage to use wool ?
We use microfiber pads 99% of the time, but on occasion we find a paint that the traditional heavy cutting process just doesn't seem to work well. In that case, we'll grab for a wool pad to see if it works better for us. Some people however, prefer to use wool pads...
@@Esotericdetail all right thanks ! You are by far the best detailing youtube channel !
@@daniellanglois4378 Thank you kindly!
Is it better to cut gelcoat with wool or microfiber ?
We don't work on boats ourselves, but have heard a lot of people who find wool to be favorable on boats.
Many thanks !
When cleaning the pads are u diluting the apc
It depends on the APC. When we use Sonax Multistar, we just use it straight out of the bottle with no dilution.
ESOTERIC can I use meguiars 101 straight
@@greggriffin3242 We don't use that product, so can't comment on the best way to use it.
good good
do you use gyeon compounds ? if so have you made a review yet ?
We do not...
@@Esotericdetail i use what you suggested a while ago jescar and sonax
Just wanted to see if something changed hahaha thanks 🙏
I like being a detailer but working at a car detailer sucks i cant take my time
I love wool pads. They last so much longer too if you clean them out after every pass. I use feynlab pure rinseless and a vegetable brush. Spin the water out and then a tornador. Like a brand new pad everytime!
Cleaning pads out after every pass simply adds way too much time to a job. If I have to clean out a pad more than once per panel (or half a hood), then I'm switching to a different pad / process.
@@Esotericdetail I only use Feynlab non-diminishing abrasive compound and polish. I prime the pad every pass. I get maximum correction in about 1-2 passes. Then I either grab a new pad and re-prime then move on to another section, or, I can clean that pad out and re-prime it. I switch out my pad every panel or half a hood. I assure you it’s much quicker process than you’d think due to the abrasives cutting the entire time and the surface area of a wool (or microfiber pad even more surface area) to deliver the abrasives and accept the paint residue. I really like the Jescar compound but it’s too oily for my liking as I only do coatings after correction. I want zero fillers or heavy carrier oils.
@@AK-ui1zl Have you watched the video regarding (pre-loading)? I highly suggest you do sir.
@Esotericdetail that's why you have 20 pads at your disposal lol
Do you ever wash pads in the washing machine and dryer
We don't...
@@Esotericdetail is there anything wrong with doing that? I think I saw Rupes does it
@@jjjjjjjjjjjhjjjjjhjj They don't seem to get them as clean with that method.
Teacher, why you insist that compressed air is the better choice to clean the wool pads? After doing a panel, the wool pad is wet from the cream... You can't remove the cream from the wet pad using compressed air. You have to replace it.
And the old pad, you have to drop it in a bucket of water first, after you done you have to clean it with dish soap, then you have to dry it, and then you use the air to remove the dust from the fibers. True or false?
When I say air is the best way, I mean between sections, or during a section while it is still usable. When you're done with that pad (after it has gotten saturated), you need to wash it out. I am strictly comparing compressed air to either a brush or similar.
blue fiber pad from rupes is way way better than the mequiers pads
Define better. Consistency, durability, finish across all paint types, etc.
why my blue wool pad breaks so fast. I can't even finish half the car
How many pads per car are you using, what speed are you using on your machine, and how much pressure are you using?
I use the eBay cheap drill Polish pad kit for 10 bucks works grate in my makita drill
Apples and oranges when you're talking about perfection-level paint correction and refinement.
And I am sure your results show the attention to the detail you perform
This is a professional video not for those that claim they are professionals
No love for their mf pad?
Is it bad that Im coming from DA and thinking to move to rotary, DA is just like a toy now. Takes too long.
Rotary is faster = myth. While you might be able to get "quicker" cut during the compounding stage, you have to do a slow, methodical finish polishing process to avoid holograms.
@@Esotericdetail Ok how about cut with rotary then polish with DA