I know this isnt your typical "high end car" detail but this is my bro-in law car and decided to do his car so he would stop bitc*$ng at me to work on it. Gave me a chance to try out banana armour and Orange Crush from Dodo. I also wanted to put menzerna pf2500 to the test as a 1 step lsp ready. Machines: Rupes 21 Flex 3401 Makita 9227 Products: Menzerna PF2500 M105 M205 D300 Dodo Orange Crush Dodo Banana Armour Dodo Lime Prime Lite Megs 3 inch 3000 grit sandpaper CarPro PERL CG Eco Smart Rinseles Optimum Opti-Lens Pads: LC Hybrid 4 inch Foam Megs 5 MF Cutting Disc Megs 5 MF Finishing Disc Buff n Shine 5.5 Foam Megs 6 MF Cutting Disc Megs 6 MF Finishing Disc Now for some pix Heres what the car looked before any work: Initially Ive read people getting success with a MF discs and PF2500. Of course japanese are known to have soft paint and the MF discs removed the swirls (cob webs) but hazed the paint. Heres what it looked like after a couple passes with a cutting disc So then i bumped it down to a finishing MF discs hoping to remove the swirls but prevent hazing and here was the result Less Hazing but visually still there so now i had to change into a foam polishing pad, my preference B n S White heavy polishing pad on my Rupes 21 with 5 inch BP, and here are the results combined with PF2500... Perfect! Except those darn rock chips, its a 2002 and full of dents and rock chips. So now that i figured out the combo for this car i got to work on the rest of the car... Pix of water spots and scratches... Afters... Now i came across these deep scratches and took some measurements, since i had sandpaper for restoring the headlights i figured i might as well bust out my damp sanding skills thanx to Art hernandez re finishing skills and threads lol jk art. The car was surprisingly around low 6's and high 4's mils. My gf prius gives me high 3's and its a 2013 vs 2002!!!! Here are the water spots and scratches... After sanding with 3000 Grit only took off .7 mils Heres what the fender looked like after sanding... I used a Megs MF cutting disc with 2 pea size D300 and 2 pea size M105 on the pad and followed up with some M205 and here are the results... All of the scratches was removed except 1 really deep and i didnt wanna keep sanding since hes paying me peanuts and pennies.
After finishing up the car i decided to do the headlights before i applied the glaze. Heres what the headlights looked like before As you can see oxidized, used megs 3000 grit again and some 105 then 205 with my makita 9227 rotary buffer with megs 4 inch foam pads, Burgundy with 105, yellow with 205 and black with 205. Here are the results... After polishing the headlights i used IPA ti remove the oils so the Opt Opti-lens would bond better (per instructions) apply set for 3to 5 minutes and wipe off high points. In my opinion this was allot esier to work with than OC 2.0 Grand finale after applying Dodo Juice Lime Prime Lite ( i used light since regular Lime prime has mild abrasives would haze my work on soft jap paint) i decided to apply orange crush on the driver side half of the car and banana armour on the passenger side just to see if there was a difference in the look (even though there supposed to be the same just a soft and hard version) and you guys can be the judge here are the results... My fav pic ROCK CHIPS RUINED THE PIC
good job, big difference between start and finish. what dilution of Perl did you apply to the exterior trim?
Looks great! As others have said, there's probably not an Echo anywhere on the planet that looks as nice as that one. haha.
:thumb: thank you sir for the compliments 2 to 1. and tires 1to1, thank you for the kind words the car was dull like when i wet sanded that section lol
LOL. I did one of these last year. Used D151. that car is tiny, I can actually 3 point turn it in my garage Great work
how did the car react with 151? and what pad you use? idk about it being small you must have a huge garage lol
standard two car LOL. I was not going for 100% or even 50%, its a DD and the person just wanted it cleaned up. I used a Green uber.
