Im plannin on polishing my car and I want to be the one doing it, I found some cheap polishers on ebay for around 50 bucks + shipping.

I dont need this as much as a shop or a detailer would to use it day in and day out and have it last long. I need it for maybe 3-4 cars max total and then ill sell it back on ebay.

ANyone ever buy one of these from ebay?
pro polishers go for about 200+

Im plannin on wet sanding then rubbing it with compund, polishing, glazing and then waxing it.

Im plannin on polishing my car and I want to be the one doing it, I found some cheap polishers on ebay for around 50 bucks + shipping.

I dont need this as much as a shop or a detailer would to use it day in and day out and have it last long. I need it for maybe 3-4 cars max total and then ill sell it back on ebay.

ANyone ever buy one of these from ebay?
pro polishers go for about 200+

Im plannin on wet sanding then rubbing it with compund, polishing, glazing and then waxing it.you can get a PC random orbit polisher for about $100. If youre going to sell it anyways, Why not get that? Im sure you could sell it on the forum for a really good price. I think it would hold a much better resale value than a cheap undesireable polisher.

do you even know what youre doing? wet sanding & using a compound is a great way to make a car look worse than it already is. it sounds like youre kind of a noob at this, since you dont seem concerned about the quality of polisher you will be using, and dont plan on keeping it for future use.

How bad is the paint. If you might get a way wothout sanding the paint. If thre is no super severe scratches and the pint is not all white from oxidation,that some good buffing compound will remove it all with the orbital non-pro buffer just fine. You go 1. mothers paint cleaner (stage 9) 2 Mothers swirl remover (stage 3) 3 Mothers mashine glaze (stage 1) 4 Quality wax.

Color sanding is only good for fixing paint application mistakes, removing orange peel, shning very neglected paint. And its not really healthy to sand a lot (too much paint/clear comes off at some places which will lead to failure later

yours is probably clear so dont wory about color-sanding since the faded color wont be restored at all-just shine.

IF you will sand the car its better go and rent a proffesional rotary buffer (because orbital buffers donr remove scratches very well). Be ware that the rotary pro-buffer can revome the paint to primer very easily and you shopuld know how to use it properly.

Cheap orbital buffers do it all, but mostly they are polishers not buffers. And whats cool abou them is they are almost fool-proof.(since not very effective)

If you want the pro-one just go and rent the thing for a couple of dates.

thanks for the informative reply, I wanted to wet sand the whole car with 2000 wet sandpaper or 3000 and then use the rubbing compound, but now I realize that when a friend of mine wetsanded his car is was to remove peel and debris. The paint is in good overall condition, I will be wetsanding the rear bumper which has faded real bad vs the rest of the car, and then polishing the whole car to get a nice shine. No matter how much I wax it does not shine as much as I want it to.

wet sanding the whole car with 2000 grit is insane...goodbye paint/clear coat

2000 grit doesnt hurt a lot. Its almost like heavy duty rubbing compound. It removes 10% of paint max.