Neiko Professional-Grade Variable Speed 7 Inch Car, Truck and Boat Polisher - Buffer - 1.75 HP

by Neiko

Product Description

A professional quality 7-inch auto polisher buffer, UL/CUL listed. A great tool for polishing your car, truck, SUV, RV, & boat to showroom condition! Perfect for the professionals and DIYers! Polishing pad not included - sold seperately.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 12.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000HCUM6I
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,825 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #5 in Automotive > Tools & Equipment > Body Repair Tools > Grinders & Polishers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buffs like a champ!!, May 10, 2009

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Larry F. Rogers (Aplace, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neiko Professional-Grade Variable Speed 7 Inch Car, Truck and Boat Polisher - Buffer - 1.75 HP (Automotive)

I bought this to restore the paint on a red Toyota that had turned completely pink over 14 years of use.

The car looked new when I was done. Now, much of the credit goes to the products I used, but the buffer performed well and did exactly the job I would expect.

When done, the car was a beautiful shade of red and this machine had performed beautifully.

Now a couple of warnings. One is it comes with only one synthetic wool pad. That was fine to do one car, and probably had enough life to do another. So, if you are doing only one car, purchasing just this unit is enough.

If, however, you need more, make sure you purchase products that will fit. Amazon sells a number of products that require a special mounting plate, and they do not tell you it is required to make the products useful.

That was not the machine's fault though, so it gets 5 stars, and Amazon gets about 2 for not providing clearer instructions on how to choose compatible buffing pads.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and easy to use, May 24, 2009

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Kent Weed (Corona, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neiko Professional-Grade Variable Speed 7 Inch Car, Truck and Boat Polisher - Buffer - 1.75 HP (Automotive)

I've never polished a car's paint before buying this machine but I decided it would be cheaper to buy this unit than it would be to pay for a professional to polish my car just once - and now I have the polisher for the future. It was much easier than I planned so I highly recommend this even if you've never done it before. I have a black Corvette and the paint was showing so many fine scratches that the paint actually looked a bit grey rather than deep gloss black.
I couldn't find the two-step polishing compounds at my local store so I just tried Meguiare's Ultimate Compound and it worked great with this machine and the single pad that came with it. By the way, this is a 7 inch diameter polisher.
After about 2 hours of work, my corvette paint looks AWESOME. Nearly all the fine scratches are gone and the paint is now a deep and gorgeous gloss black. It was easy with this powerful machine.

UPDATE: I've noticed that it's hard to figure out which pads fit this. This tool has a male 5/8"-11 Spindle. One good bonnet set I tried is the 7" POLISHER/BUFFER SOFT WOOL BONNET & PAD with HOOK & LOOP for POLISHING/BUFFING" sold on Amazon. It comes with one new wheel with hooks/loops and 3 pads that stick to it. Hope this helps you.
I've now used it to polish my Montero Sport - looks like new, especially the headlights that amazingly came out like new (they were horribly yellowed) using just the pad that came with the machine and some 3M polishing compound (I think any would work). I also polished all the black streaks from my white trailer using a combination of "Black Streak Remover" (buy at W-Mart) & "TR3" Wax. I was killing myself doing this until I thought to use this machine and then it was easy going!!

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars internal mechanisms are cheaply made, June 21, 2009

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A. Clark (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neiko Professional-Grade Variable Speed 7 Inch Car, Truck and Boat Polisher - Buffer - 1.75 HP (Automotive)

This looks, feels,works like and has the same components but is made with the cheaper variety of parts. Just like the items you buy at Wal-M... The items at that store are made for that store and are made of cheaper materials. That is why you can buy them for less money. Same scenario here.
We used it one time and it broke. We didn't even get to finish the job. We also purchased the Vector brand at the same time and it keeps on working and it finished the job.