Mother's PowerBall4Paint

He Hate Me · Post by **He Hate Me** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:58 pm

Anyone have a PERSONAL review on this?

Don't get me wrong, I'm old school when it comes to waxing and polishing by hand, but sometimes it get's sooo long and tedious.

I'd like to try it out, but would like some opinions.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:15 pm

You are asking for a bare minimum of swirls to all hell. One word: don't. Get a D/A polisher.

srtgtr34 · Post by **srtgtr34** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:35 pm

I have actually used my mothers powerball on the paint on my car, but only because my first buffer broke and I couldn't afford a new one at the time.

It works suprisingly well, I could imagine the paint specific one would be a bit better but it shined the paint up real good. You can only use wax on it obviously, but for a cheap buffer alternative it is a good option.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:49 pm

Not a fan, it swirls too much for me. It's too coarse.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:12 am

It's the same as the original PowerBall, that is made of aggressive foam that has the ability to remove oxidation off of metal surfaces quickly, just yellow instead of red. Metal is harder than paint, so go from there.

Undesolved · Post by **Undesolved** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:11 pm

I personally like my powerball 4 paint. It works well for me, I guess its different for every person but i didnt see any swirl marks and i just bought it a few days ago.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:36 pm

I'd like to see some direct sun pictures, if possible

Like this:

Undesolved · Post by **Undesolved** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:25 pm

I'll take some with my camera tommorow otherwise right now it'd be iPhone pics at night

Undesolved · Post by **Undesolved** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:26 pm

Heres some pics i took of my friend's 2010 Jetta 2.5 we did the other day. Excuse the PnS ness but they're better than cellphone pics.

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:37 pm

wow. so ur telling me you did that with the Mothers Powerball for Paint..?

thats good yo.

theTeejmiester · Post by **theTeejmiester** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:16 am

i bet in direct light there is holograms, but it does look pretty damn good tho, i am surprised actually

Undesolved · Post by **Undesolved** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:51 am

Neon4Life wrote:wow. so ur telling me you did that with the Mothers Powerball for Paint..?

thats good yo.

Yup, see the big yellow thing on the drill? Yup, That was also with Mothers Carnuba Cleaner Wax (liquid form) I didn't feel like using a bowl or something similar so i used my disc golf disc. It went on really well and that thing holds so much it was ridiculous.

theTeejmiester wrote:i bet in direct light there is holograms, but it does look pretty damn good tho, i am surprised actually

I havent seen any yet. But yeah it cut the application time down to about 15 minutes for the entire car depending on how many smoke breaks were taken.

darthroush · Post by **darthroush** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:18 pm

It looks good, but it's hard for me to agree completely without seeing a shot like I posted. You've got one with the sun in it, but over half of the sun isn't shown on the paint, plus it's at an angle which can make things not show up on top of that. It seems that either you truly didn't get swirls by using what seems to be at least a 1/2 bottle of wax for one go around (that massive amount of white, chalky looking wax on the paint is a sign of using WAY too much, and wasting the wax), or we just can't see them in the shade since there aren't any direct sun shots like I posted.

The reason I'm being so technical about it is I want real, quality proof that it won't cause swirls on paint. Every cars paint is different too. While it is possible that it may not swirl one car, doesn't mean it will make another car a disaster. Just sayin'...

furyman67 · Post by **furyman67** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:53 pm

I have used the Mothers Power Ball on both my Silver Neon and my wifes Inferno Red Jeep Patriot and no swirls on either car, just a very nice finish

Tom

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:57 pm

I might have to invest in this and take some shots like you are wanting darthroush.