Windshield Repair Forum

So I have a customer with 4 sets of lights for me to do and they are located about 40 miles away. I start on the first set and get to 3000 grit step and my Metabo quits. I unplugged it, tried a different outlet and nadda. This thing is right at 1 year old and im not sure if it will be covered under warranty or not. So now I had to tell the customer I couldnt finish the job and will have to come back out...another 80 miles round trip.

I feel your pain. I broke the sanding head off of my Metabo last week while doing an Audi TT. I finished with a drill and a backing pad. Then I had to buff with buffing compound to help remove the swirls left by the drill's circular swirls. It worked out fine but it took an extra while.

Call Korey.....he'll work with ya!

why don't you have wet and dry sand paper as a backup for when there is no power? For me some times it is faster to do a job by hand as to getting set up with the metabo..
I do have a backup metabo in the truck also. I also broke my stud plate screw a while back,,, Delta has new "hardened" stud place screws.. I bought two. I like having back ups of everything.

http://www.deltakits.com/products/4/736

Korey is sending me a replacement first thing in the morning. Kudos to Delta Kits for the good customer service as always!!

There is no way a headlight can be sanded by hand as fast and as well as using a tool like the Metabo. The longest part of setting up the Metabo is walking to the power plug with your extension cord.

Think what you want. I did them by hand for a quite a while before I bought my first Metabo.
For starters, some jobs do not need a lot of work to them.. Also, if the light is small enough and or if the alignment nubs will be in the way, then I will sand by hand. There are also jobs were I only need to do one light because they had a wreck and one light is already new.

Yep, I started out by hand too but I now know there is a major difference in the end result using a DA sander whether it is one light or five.

I started out riding a bike when I was a kid but now I prefer driving a car.

you are not getting it... having the wet and dry sand paper is a backup incase something goes wrong,,,, "broken orbit sander". A person will not have to drive 40 miles for nothing again....

Never mind.

Oh, I get it. I would never use a hand sand in place of a DA sand except in an emergency.