I was contacted by the owner of this Lexus ES 300, to fix up the body shop debacle of a repair they did to his hood and fenders, as well as polish up the rest of the car to make it look better. The pictures you will see at the start will shock you, those are “finished repairs”. I started with an ONR wash on the outside. I then clayed the car with Werkstat Blue clay, which came out pretty clean as the owner clayed it late last year. I started by tackling the hood with Optimum Hyper Compound and a foam compounding pad. The hood took 3 passes to rid the hood of all the sanding marks, leaving only the DA sanding curlies that were very deep. The hood was then followed up with Optimum Hyper Polish and then Super Finish to get rid of the micro marring that was left after polishing. The rest of the car was finished with Optimum Hyper Polish and a few other polishes. The LSP was a prototype wax and precleaner from Eshine. The start Fenders were is rough shape as well. I start by spraying the compound on the hood But then figured out it was better to spray on the pad itself The compound spits a bit, but does not dust at all. After a few passes of Optimum Hyper compound I had a hard time focusing on the 50/50 on the trunk, but the right side is polished. Used these for LSP process And the finished pics All work was done outside in -2 degree weather.
three machines, mostly the small and large flex rotaries and I played with the PC a bit, but found the polish works much better on a rotary
^^ was just about to tell you too bryan LOL nice job nonetheless, i see you be soldiering on in -2c did you LSP up his steelies and dress his winters? =p
Nice job. Noticed you said it was all done outside in -2 degree weather. Doesn't that effect the products you use?
great job! Gotta love body shops, when I did this full time, body shops were my main clients, they didn't want to finish the job or didn't have time to clean up their own mess that they did to the vehicles.