“I have a small car detailing products business and was introduced to the Rupes BigFoot blue wool polishing pad (this one is coarse and there's a medium yellow version) by somene who does car detailing, namely Porsches (German clearcoats are usually hard).
He told me that this pad had a good cutting power (maybe not as much as a traditional wool one) and had the advantage of not leaving the traditional marks; besides being developed for orbital polishers.
I bought some for my customers and the opinions were positive, in fact they already bought more than one.
I myself have tried it on a really dull Mercedes 190 with Koch-Chemie H8 and did a really good job.”
“I bought these pads for use with my Mille as I heard that using microfibre pads on a forced rotation polished were not recommended.
These pads give great cut and do not heat up as quickly as microfibre pads. I have only used it on a BMW 3 series and BMW clear coat tends to be hard. Not sure if I would use this on softer clear coat, but you could test out the fine wool polishing pad first and see what sort of results that yields before deciding whether to go in a bit more aggressively.”
“Only tried it the one for test but this pad felt great on my dad 6 pro, balanced and control.
It made light work of swirls and light scratches and finished down surprising well, better than the medium wool on my tests anyway and even the yellow fine foam pad. Just used a cutting compound for test though.
Highly recommend will be getting some more.”
“A great pad for correcting, but...beware, this will burn through the paint if you don't keep the pad moving. I know this because it happened to me today. I'd suggest only using this for hard German clear coats. Also works well with a less aggressive compound. It corrected the scratches my micro fibre pad couldn't. I love it, but lesson learned!”
“Excellent pads, I combined these with Koch Chemie H8 compound and achieved amazing results. The level of scratch and defect removal was incredible. I will be using these Rupes pads as my "go to" on major paint corrections from now on.”
