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Title: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: PeanutButterPiece on 02 June 2009, 00:51

Looking to spend around £100 with pads, if poss. I am looking to do a car I am selling and a car I have bought so think it is more worthwhile to buy one that pay someone to do it.

Obviously as a newbie I am too new/lazy/stupid* etc. to actually search so replies are appreciated.

Thank you.

*delete as appropriate.

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: JC on 02 June 2009, 08:59

looks on clean your car butter piece, they were doing the kestral one for £85 i think  :wink:

will have a look later for ya.  :cool:

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: JC on 02 June 2009, 09:01

http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/polishing/polishing-machine/das-6-dual-action-polisher/prod_519.html

 :wink:

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: Conker on 02 June 2009, 12:47

For £100, you will struggle to get pads and polish in the price as well, unless you go for just one type of pad and one type of polish. An alternative would be to get a rotary polisher (as opposed to a dual action) as they are a lot cheaper, but apparently much harder for the novice to use safely.

If it has to be £100, you can get the Kestrel for £75 or so (autobrite I think), then 1 x polishing pad and 1x light cutting pad, and then probably megs refining polish (80 IIRC). This will give you the ability to give it a light polish, but you will struggle to get major defects out.

Why not save up for a month and get a £140 kit from elitecarcare?

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: PeanutButterPiece on 02 June 2009, 13:00

cheers chuff, do you have any experience of them?

£100 was just a spending limit i set myself, i can afford more but don't want to go crazy with the price as i won't use it all that much, probably only when buying or selling cars.

is this the kit here conker? http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=71&products_id=529

i need something with a heavy cut like g3 to restore a rather pinky car i imagine.

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: jaydubveedub on 03 June 2009, 10:40

carwashnwax.co.uk are doing the Kestrel for about £69 plus del I think.

I always use Farecla G3 cutting paste for badly faded/marked paintwork. Always works well.

Make sure you get a good layer of wax/polish on after though.

Title: Re: Can anyone recommend me a cheap buffer?
Post by: Conker on 03 June 2009, 19:22

Quote from: jaydubveedub on 03 June 2009, 10:40

carwashnwax.co.uk are doing the Kestrel for about £69 plus del I think.

Thats the rotary, not the dual action.