i'm thinking about picking up an orbital buffer from the local Home Depot or Lowes. The pros seem obvious...but are there any cons i should be aware of?

-Karim

 

If you get a random orbital buffer the only con i see is you'll probably get hooked on it, master it and want to get a polisher. Otherwise, unless you drop the buffer on your car there's nothing bad to come out of it - even if it's your first time using it.

 

I see. I was on Lowes.com and Homedepot.com and i didn't relize how cheap they where. Here's some models i was looking at.


Ryobi
10 In. Orbital Buffer
Model RB101


GMC
10" Auto Orbital Polisher/Waxer

Which one should i go with?

 

Are you looking for something to remove wax or remove imperfections in the paint?

 

not to remove wax, but to apply it.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe those are essentially power waxers...you won't be making any paint corrections with those. If you want it as a polisher (not just a power waxer) then you want a porter cable 7336 (from lowes) for around $100. This PC is marketed as a sander, but it's essentially the same thing as the polisher but for about $50 less.

*edit* looks like this is want prinz was getting at when he replied while I was typing.

 

Considering you are just applying wax, I'd consider the Ryobi.

What kind of wax are you using?

 

But in a nutshell, I have one of these:



So far, I have used it to buff out imperfections in a car and even buff the glass on it using Autoglym's glass polish. In addition, I bought a leather/vinyl brush for it so that I can clean extremely dirty leather.

I paid $110 for mine brand new.

 

get that if you can, i absolutely love mine!

 

ooooh, I never thought about buffing the glass on the outside. Worth the work?

 

thanks for all the suggestions fellas. i bought some car wax from a car show a lil while back, i'll post pics of it later.

 

Blue: It's really not as much work as you think. It's actually pretty easy and it makes the glass look almost invisible.

BTW, you can polish the glass on the inside.

 

Can you post a link to the leather brush?