Hello there DB, This job was completed after over 20 hours went into resurrecting the hammered and beat up paint. Heavy swirling, marring and yards of buffer trails and holograms left by a "detailer" was what I was faced with. The correctional process took 4 steps to complete at around 1 hour to an hour and fifteen per panel. The car was COVERED in acid rain and heavy water deposits, including the windows which were hammered. Compounding pad + Glass polish X 3 passes per window helped, but still did not remove all. A large improvement was made! Onto the good stuff Products/ tools used: Products: CG Citrus Wash and Clear/ Dawn wash Sonax FE wheel cleaner/ Megs WB 15:1 Megs APC Uber Fine Clay ONR Zaino Z12 Clearview Glass Polish Sonax Glass Cleaner 303 Aerospace Protectant Adams VRT dressing Megs 105 Menzerna Power Finish Menzerna Super Finish IPA 30% CG JetSeal 109 Tools: 3 Wool wash mitts SV brushes- wheel, Pneu Uber Spoke wheel brush 0000 steel whool PC air compressor Flex DA PC DA Various backing plates Surbuf R series MF pads Uber Green foam Uber Orange foam Uber yellow foam LC 3 in. yellow foam LC 3 in. orange foam Wash process: Shot of the heavy deposits and etchings: heavily oxidized lenses: Megs APC sitting and breaking down the bugs Pulled inside and Clayed- surprisingly not too much picked up The Correctional process One pass of Megs 105 on a Surbuf R series MF pad One Pass of Megs 105 on a yellow foam pad One pass of Menzerna SIP on an orange pad One pass of Menzerna 106fa on a green pad Average time per panel- 1 hour to an hour and a half Some nasty befores Glass: 50 / 50 glass: 50 / 50's! After: Before: After: More 50 / 50 Spoiler Rocker 50/50 - these puppy's were both hammered: Left before- right after Door surrounds- polished all 4 stages by hand: After: Pillar before: After: Another I was pressed for time at the end of day 2 so I was unable to get afters of the other side of the car or the rear but here is some pics of before! MMMMM rotary tails Spoiler before- probably the least damaged exterior piece of the car Trunk lid- pretty hammered: 2 IPA wipedowns later, then an application of some JetSeal 109: Afters: Thanks for looking! - Dan
Job well done!! Tremendous turnaround on some very bad paint! Was the clear hard? Did you have to do a four-step due to the water spots and acid rain remains? Marcus
Thanks Marcus! The clear was surprisingly soft- Surbuff pad did realll quick work of the acid rain stains- and yes I had did a test panel with just M105 on a yellow and was not happy with it. Thanks! - Dan
Wooops, anyone know how to change title- I can go into advanced edit and change the title to "IX" however it will not make the change even after saving......
Good work! looks amazing. I noticed you used SIP after 105, was 106FA with uber green not enough to clean up after 105?
I always like to step down to SIP or Power Finish, then go ahead with 106FA, Sometimes I find jumping right from 105 on a yellow to 106FA/ green is too quick of a jump! I enjoy properly stepping down through the lineup but to each his own!
Props to you man. That was an awesome turn around on some trashed paint. That would have taken me more patience than I have I fear. That surbuff really did a nice job.
