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Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Marine31
There's gel-coat, painted and pre-fabricated panels. Sounds like the sides were some type of pre-fabricated panel where the exterior finish is made or created when the panel is manufactured.
Here's what I would do... get the year, make and model of the motorhome before you show up to detail it and contact the manufacturer or Google the year, make and model and add a couple of extra wards like
year make model exterior finish
Either or both of these option should get you some answers.
Big picture is this, if you're not working on normal gel-coat, which tends to be thick and forgiving, and you're not working on a painted motorhome, which will usually be a high end motorhome with a basecoat/clearcoat finish that's real expensive and then you treat it like car paint, then you're probably working on some kind of pre-fab material and treat the exterior like THIN paint because whatever the coating or material it's probably very thin.
I'd also recommend trying to do the detail using a one-step cleaner/wax with a foam pad on a dual action polisher. Safe approach that should work on most pigmented materials.
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That's a good idea, I'll have to start doing that on the RV's now. If they are going to be textured like this one I am going to have to up the price a lot to make it worth the time.
It was an extremely difficult process to wax it. I tried to use my porter cable da buffer and it wouldn't even transfer the wax from the pad to the panel. We ended up doing it all by hand.
As far as wax goes I tried several different types and trewax had the best shine by far. I tried marine and automotive waxes and none of them really gave it any shine.
Thanks for the advice