Ok so lets get started. This was a real tough one. First off the car has been resprayed at least twice. Paint was measured to be as low as 36 and as high as 430. Yes i know. Not only that the clearcoat varied. While some areas were semi soft white others were super hard. So lets just say I had to pretty much use everything I had. I spent about 18-20 hours just on the paint and nothing else. I did not do any wetsanding as that would have taken too much time and considering the amount of variables I was up against I left that out and focused on the overall outcome. I was aiming for 75% but I think I was able to attain 80%. You be the judge. Anyways on to the detail. Wash Optimum No Rinse Groute Sponge Two Buckets Two Grit Guards Waffle Weave Drying Towel Buffing Towels Clay Riccardo Yellow Chemical Guys Synthetic QD for clay lube Paint Correction Meguiars M105 Menzerna SIP Menzerna PF Menzerna PO85rd 3M Ultrafina Tufbuf Wool Pads Sonus Yellow Sonus White Sonus Blue LC Yellow 4 inch LC Orange 4 inch LC White 4 inch LSP Collinite 476 Window RainX Equipment 3M Sungun Fenix TK10 Halogens Positector 6000 Metabo PC7424 BEFORES Paint Measurement During Apparently the hood was "repainted" and then apparently it was sanded to hell and yes with the low paint readings in the first place. Boy what can you do... So with the hood having such low paint readings varying from 36-70+ microns I had to be very careful. I made a call to the client to let him know the situation with the hood and how he would like me to proceed. He told me to do the best that I could and the best that I could it was. I settled on SIP, PO85rd and ultrafina but after each I took measurements so I'm within a comfortable means. The area where it was 36 microns I only went with one pass of Menzerna Powerfinish. Trunk. Yes... the trunk. It has been repainted at least once. It was just as much a headache as the hood without the low readings but boy was it touchy. Menzerna SIP broken down. After SIP wiped off. More compounding and polishing... Refining stages... Some of the paint was so sensitive that wiping with my microfiber towel enduced marring... So to solve this issue I had to use minimal pressure. Talk about touchy. Applying 3M Ultrafina with Sonus Blue pad. FINISHED PRODUCT. Remember how it looked like before? Yea I know. Thanks for looking.
Thanks guys. It was an emotional roller coaster. I would be happy one second and I would be pulling my hair out the next second lol. Definitely had to learn some patience and to learn to break up my thoughts on a piece of paper
Thanks Scott! How is the paramedic life treating you? Congrats with your photog stuff lookin' good Thanks Aaron Just trying to keep up with you Thanks Rennes! Have fun with the altima. I'll pray for you Thanks slanguage oOOooo word of the day knackered. I think i'm going to steal that word from you lol. I love it! So british
np, but that was some serious work, I have had a few basket cases through the years and I know the pain
