My car needed a makeover, haven't polished it since i bought it.. The previous owner needs to learn a thing or two about washing techniques, found RDS all over the car when I started to inspect it. Tried to polish it using Optimum Compound and a wool pad, but the RDS were too deep. So I got inspired by the Meguiars wetsanding vids at youtube. My car is repainted, and there is a quite thick layer of paint. Products used: Wash: Tar remover Gritguard Chemical Guys Citrus Wash + Gloss Green Mf mitt Meguiars Waffle Weave Clay: Megs Quik Clay ONR mixed as lube Polishing/wetsanding: Optimum Compound - wool 3m Perfect It III - Fast Cut Plus - wool Menzerna 106ff - white lc pad 3m Imperial p2000 Chemical Guys Synthetic QD for wetsanding lube Lsp: Chemical Guys Ez Creme Glaze Chemical Guys Jetseal 109 The car: Started out very carefully wetsanding an old trunk lid I only had Optimum Compound available at this moment, so two passes was necessary.. Here is after one pass: After 106ff: Only did one pass with Optimum Compound, so the result after 106ff were not 100% perfect. Over to my car! At this point I learned that wetsanding at the edges, is not a good idea! Was a PITA to remove those sanding marks, afraid to cut trough the paint.. Area polished with Optimum Compound x2, and 106ff: After that result I felt way more confident, so I wetsanded the rest of the hood. Hood done: See the difference? Right panel is wetsanded, left I haven't done anything with.. Time to do the rest of the car, so I bought 3m fast cut plus Tested on the left fender first.. After fast cut plus and wool Time to do the rest of the car! Started polishing: After 106ff Time for an inspection in the sun: Found only small amounts of swirls, so took a few passes with 106ff: After ez creme glaze and jetseal: Outside: Still need to polish the side skirts, the upper part of the doors (by the windows) and the roof. Thanks for looking!
Very nice work Tommy! You know I like what you have done with your volvo. And it need balls to do something like that Can`t wait to see it finished!!
Wow, mad props to that job man. How long did all that take you? I have a couple areas on the car that i want to wetsand also. My neighbor thought it would be nice one day to scrap all the snow off my car with a grungy stiff brush.
Wow that's a lot of wet sanding :thud: Nice turn around on that Volvo :applause: Thank you for sharing with us, very nice turn around :applause2:
Thanks Ketil, really appreciate it Thanks man Think I've spend atleast 20 hours so far, and there will be more The roof also needs alot of work, tons of orange peel hehe, stiff brush vs. paint is not a good match! thanks
Thanks! It's a quite big car, so it's a lot of work.. Man I want a smaller car Thanks a lot Thanks The best thing about this car, is when the sun flashes the paint, and it turns purple! It's nice to finally see the color swirl free Thanks man Thanks Just pick up the sanding papers, and start sanding!
First of all, big pre-Ford Volvo fan here! Great looking machine and that's a great color as well. It takes balls of steel to wetsand your entire car but it looks great now. Is it lowered a lot?
I have sanded a ton of cars and have never seen anyone just pic up paper and start sanding. Your the man.
Thanks! It's lowered about 10 cm I would guess, black and decker lowering kit Thanks man Had to try it, so why hesitate? Learned a lot after sanding my car, it's nice to know how sanding works.
