Detailer's Domain: Hammered Civic with Opti Coat - Major Correction

Subject: 2000 Honda Civic
Requirements - Remove heavy swirls and scratches, and protect with Opti Coat

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with 1Z einszett W99
- Aquartz Iron Cut
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Nano Scrub AutoScrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Wetsanding
- Meg's M105 with Surbuf Pad - Griots Orbital
- Meg's D300 with Microfiber DA Cut Pad - Griots Orbital
- Menzerna SF4000 with Uber Green Pad - Griots Orbital
- Opti Coat
- Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used -

1Z einszett W99
Aquartz Iron Cut
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Meg's M105
Meg's D300 Microfiber Correction System
Menzerna SF4000
Opti Coat
Adam's Super VRT
Optimum Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before














Prep - Wash, Wheels, Tires, NanoSkin



Headlight restoration

Before shots of the lights.




Various stages of wet sanding required to clean up the headlights



Compound and Polish



After shots of the headlights - Opti Coat installed





D300 with Griots


50/50 shots of correction




Before trim


After


After shots

 

Looks great!

 

Freaking awesome results! From your experience does the 1Z Deep Plastic Cleaner remove the "scuff" marking looking stains on hard plastic? And was that the SVRT you used on the trim?

 

came out nice
Love the look of the EM1's

 

wow!! from prius to this?! haha nothing but sickness here. BTW your shinex came with 5/8 thread? I see that you're using my favorite 3 in backing plate hehe

 

thanks guys yup we don't just do exotics and super cars here , our Festool is a US model so yup it works with all the us spec backing plate.

 

Great work Phil and the rest of the crew.

 

Looks like new again. Awesome.

 

I like how black and shiny the paint is. It is good to see civic too, not just exotics cars.

 

Great job Phil . Nice to see the Honda getting some long over due attention.

 

You straight up hammered away on a hammered car! : applause:
What were the ptg readings? If you remember...

 

Very nice work but mildly puzzling, I'm surprised that an owner would spring for that level of correction on a non-Si 2000 Civic. I'm a Honda fan (with the qualifier that Honda/Acura seem to have lost direction to a degree in the last decade or so) and I agree that it is nice to see something other than Audis, Bimmers, etc. but it still seems a little discordant. An '89 CRX Si, a 2002 S2000 or even a '97 Accord wagon would have been less surprising.

 

sure I was surprised as well.

customer is in grad school and wanted to keep this car for a long time. so he wanted the best for it.

 

It went from beater to respectable, so I think he got what he wanted. Great work!

 

looks great