A friend of mine needed to shine his car, a red 993 Carerra S. Initially I planned to remove more of the swirls and scratches then I actually ended up doing, mostly because it was a ss paint. So instead I went over the car very gently. I am sorry that I'm not posting any before pics, didn't have much time + the garage I was working in had limited space to manouver. The usual wash and dry process. I then went over several panels all over the car to determine the status of the paint. Used a Megs applicator pad with some 3M EFC, which contains some abrasives, and tested around the car. The red paint quickly came through everywhere except the left front and hood which must have been resprayed. Alas, a single stage paint on most panels....Taped the car up and off we go... Applied 3M EFC on a yellow 3M pad all over the car, wiped off and went over with Duragloss 105 by hand afterwards. Left to cure for about half an hour and wiped off. The pictures you see below are taken after the 105 came off. As we came back to the garage, a layer of Duragloss 111 were put on and left to cure overnight (and then some). I had a very slow shutter on the camera when I took the pictures, so I had to do an auto-sharpen in Elements. Note that when doing this the images become more saturated than they really are, so I took down the saturation by 20% after the auto sharpen. The owner was very pleased about the result and I became wiser in terms of polishing ss paint. Could someone please enlighten me some more as to polishing a ss paint ? Not having acces to a paint depth measurer, I took the safe route and opted not to remove all of the deepest scratches as the pads became very red after a while...... Pictures
Very nice, vehicle looks great. Nice pictures too. As to polishing SS paint, it's really no different then polishign a vehicle with clear coat...just be prepare to sacrafise a pad or two due to the colour transfer. I tend to find correcting single stage paint is a bit simple, most of the time the paint is some what soft and you don't need to go too aggresive with the polish/pad combo. Sometimse the deep scratches can be tricky though, as they might be deep enough that if you try to remove them you might run out of paint, so even though we all aim for perfection sometimes it's best to settle for 60 to 80% correction...sometimes its best to play safe. Just my :2cents:
Appreciate the tips, I will try some more on a ss but think I'll check paint depth first anyway just to make sure + check depth in a polishing session to see how much goes off.
