Pinnacle Wax and Polish

Yeah, I've got my good buddy Mike Phillips from Autogeek.net in the shop with me today. Mike, what are we going to talk about today other than this gorgeous '31 Highboy? Well, I want to show you a new compound in the Pinnacle line. And while this '31 Highboy is beautiful. It is gorgeous. If you look, it's pretty common to see a lot of swirls in a paint job like this, especially over time. And especially on black. Black and dark colors, they show the swirls. All colors get swirls, but black really shows it the most. In fact, just using just the light off my cell phone here. Oh man. Just look at that. And you can imagine this is what the sun is going to do if you had this out in the sun, so that takes away from the beauty of this car. Yeah, yeah. So can you fix that? I can't fix that. Just let me put this down over here. We have the technology, right? Yeah, so this is our new compound, and this is aggressive enough to pull out 1200 grit sanding marks, and that's really aggressive. And that scares me, actually. I know, but if you feel this between your fingers, go ahead and I'll just pour a little bit out there. Feel that. You'd expect to feel something like sand or rocks- It's like hand lotion or something. Exactly, so these are engineered abrasives, okay. So instead of mined abrasives, something pulled out of the dirt and then sent through a filtering system, A chemist actually creates this in a laboratory. The abrasives themselves? The abrasives themselves. Engineered, hence the name, Engineered. And that way they can control the sharpness, the particle size, the breakdown rate, everything about them. And the point is, is it's aggressive enough to pull these swirls out and finish out like a polish. So truly a designer abrasive. Exactly, it's a designer abrasive, yes. Now, the other thing I want to show you today is a lot of times when I'm on the show, I show you things like the Porter cable. A real simple, easy to use tool. The one that I use, simple and easy, very important. Yeah, simple and easy. Now, if you notice that one's what we call free spinning, just spin the pad. See, it's not gear-driven. No. And that's what makes it so safe, and a lot of people like it for that reason. Yeah, you almost can't screw up. Again, that's why I use it. Exactly. Now, this is the Flex 3401, and this, the difference is, is this has a lot more power. It's German made. It's forced oscillation, so watch when I pull the trigger. It doesn't just rotate it oscillates and rotates. And, go ahead and spin that with your hand. Oh yeah. No, that you can hear the gear. Okay? Yeah. So a lot more power. Anyway so, the way this compound works is you just want to take and put some of this on the pad. It looks like a fair amount of it on the pad. Well, when it's a dry pad, I always like the prime it, and that way a hundred percent of the surface of the pad is going to start going to work for me, and I've got some work to do there. Okay, so after I've got some of the product on there, just going to take and put more on. This is what I call the working product. So that's primed, and that's the product I'm going to work with. Okay. And then, of course, always put the cord over your shoulder. Always put the cord over your shoulder. Don't turn the pad on until it's in contact with the paint. And I'm just going to buff out a section here so you can see the difference between before and after. Spread my product out and I'm going to bring the speed up. Then, never lift the pad off until it stops spinning. Or you'll be wearing it. That's right. Now, watch how easy this wipes off. Oh man . It's like wiping a wax off. And, uh oh, hey man, and I got a mirror here. Yes, shall we bring up the light again? Yes, yes, let's have a look here. Okay, so. So, terrible swirls there. And like nothing. It was a black mirror. Now,- And you did this in like no time. But the key is this is a compound. Just think what we're going to do if we hit it with the finishing polish and throw some wax on there? Well, I mean, it looks waxed now. It does. So this is really an addition to an already expansive and great line of products, the Pinnacle line. Exactly, so now we've got the Advanced Compound, the Swirl Remover, and the Finishing Polish, plus the Show Car Wax, and that gives you results like these. And it does look marvelous.