Super soft paint on this Porsche. It is a repaint so that may attribute to the pain in the butt the paint was especially when most repaints are on the hard side. I had this Porsche in our shop for I think 6 days and it has at least 12 hours of work on the exterior alone. It was wet sanded in some areas to remove dirt nibs and blending lines, it was tinted all the way around except for the windshield (obviously). Speaking of tint, we had to dismantle the rear wiper arm and remove it completely in order to get the tint to lay down without a blemish by the wiper arm area. I don't have many specific BEFORE and AFTERS but rather a collection of befores, durings and afters so here we go..... This is of the front wiper posts. This area had an odd paint blending line so I wet sanded this area to lessen that and also get rid of some hard water spotting. After being taped off and wet sanded. Now here is that area after being polished out. Here are a few pictures of the front fender and rear quarter panel during wet sanding......unfortunately I do not have any specific AFTER shots of these areas The pipes were scorched a bit so I used the new Optimum Metal Polish to get them back to their original luster. This is after the 2nd time polishing the entire paint all over. So this would be the 6th and final polishing step. My steps were wool LC pad with 105, LC white pad with 105, blue finishing pad with OPII and my last steps were with Ultrafina. Optimum Opti-Seal tops this black beauty. The engine all detailed And finally finished...after much hair loss! Anthony
great job anthony. that car is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS... "i think i just went from six oclock to midnight..."
Great detail. It looks super. You made this porsche Just sparkle and look brand new. Your write up was interesting as well...:thumb:
Appreciate the kind words gentleman (and ladies if any remarked?). The sweet thing about black is that nothing looks as good when polished but the bad thing is 3 miles down the road it doesn't look so good..eh? Surely black paint is a labor of love which leads to the most intense love/hate relationship!:doh: Thanks again, Anthony
Well for the first round of leveling I used my Flex rotary with an LC foamed wool pad and 105. This was mainly used in the wet sanding areas and a few other areas where the scratching was a bit deeper. If the LC pad and 105 was not used I was then using a white LC pad with 105. This pretty much took out the majority of the marring and wool pad swirls. After that step I went to a blue finishing pad with 105 again. I reduced my rpm's down to 1100 for these last steps. Optimum II was then used with a black finishing pad and Ultrafina with a black finishing pad using the Flex orbital. The first LSP series was Opti-Seal and then 24 hours later a combo of Zymol Concours and Victorias Concours. I then noticed some marring so I did all the above steps, minus the wool and 105 all over again. I used the LC white pad, blue pad and black all with Optimum II for the second go round, Ultrafina used last. It was then sealed with Opti-Seal and left the wax off mainly because I was out of time to add another layer of wax. I also polished out the wheels with Optimum Polish II and my rotary with a 3 inch Cyclo pad and backing plate. I used Poli-Seal to top the wheels off. Opti-Bond on the tires, Black WOW on the trim, Optimum Metal Polish for all metal pieces and Protectant Plus for interior and engine bay. Glass was cleaned with my steam vapor cleaner and an Unger glass towel. Think that about covers it, Anthony
Not sure if it was the wax but more so just some deeper stuff that I thought was removed but it wasn't. Honestly I am sure I could have delivered it like that and the owner would have been very pleased because he had in fact come by several times to see the progress and was very pleased with it. Yet because I have this (crippling at times) issue with trying to make it perfect I went overboard trying to get it that way. Everyone thinks that it's a neat and cool thing to get paint as perfect as possible but in reality it does more harm than good. Doing $125.00 one steps is more profitable dollar for dollar, hour for hour than doing these marathon details. The question then becomes.....which though is more satisfying? Anthony
