Finishing Foam Pads

Finishing Foam Pads

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About the range

Finishing Foam Pads

Finishing foam pads are the softest grade of foam pad. With a finishing polish they remove the light haze a cutting stage leaves, and they spread glazes, waxes and sealants evenly by machine. The range covers Lake Country, Chemical Guys HEX-Logic, Rupes DA, Menzerna, ShineMate and Autobead pads from 3.5 to 6.5 inch.

How to choose

  • Softness: the fine pads (Rupes DA Fine, Menzerna Soft Cut, Autobead Fine Cut) keep a little cut for refining harder paint. The softest (Rupes DA Ultra Fine and the red Lake Country and Chemical Guys pads) are for a last pass on soft paint or for applying protection.
  • Machine: Lake Country HDO pads are built for long-throw DA polishers; SDO pads for a standard DA.
  • Colour: green is a soft pad from Lake Country and Menzerna but a heavy cutting pad from ShineMate, so buy by name, not colour.

Good to know

  • Keep finishing pads for finishing: compound left in the foam puts haze back. Wash them after every job; see Pad Cleaning.
  • Polishing oils can hide fine swirls. Before a coating goes on, wipe the panel with Panel Wipe & IPA to see the true finish.

What are finishing pads used for?

The last machine stage. Paired with a finishing polish, a finishing pad takes out the haze a cutting step leaves and brings up the gloss, and the softest ones also put glaze, wax or sealant on by machine.

Related: Polishing Pads, Medium Cut Foam Pads, Finishing Polishes, Glazes. Popular brands here: Lake Country, Chemical Guys, Rupes.

Not sure which one you need?

Tell us about the vehicle, surface, equipment or result you are working with. Advice is available before you buy, not only after something has gone wrong.

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Guides for Finishing Foam Pads

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