Hey everyone, So I had this beautiful car to work on for two days. It was definitely tiring but well worth it. I ran a little short on time and was not able to address the rear lights but I will be making a short trip to look after that this coming week. Also there were swirls underneath the clear bra that could not be addressed. Paint wise you can tell the paint was not in the greatest condition. At first I thought I was looking at a different Z as when I first saw the Z it looked maroon. You have to love the metal flake. In terms of the correction I was happy with the outcome. Enough of my blabbering. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I know i know, just one last note this was by far the nicest client I have ever had. I hope everyone is able to have a client that is like this. I was brought lemon water, cookies and was even invited to stay for dinner. Amazing people so I wanted to do an even better job. Here we go. Wash Meguars Gold Class Sheep Skin Wash Mitts (Panels) Microfiber Wash Mitt (Wheels) Grit Guard 3 Buckets Wheel Brush EZ Brush Stoners Tarminator P21S Metal Polish P21S TAW 0000 Steel Wool Clay Riccardo Yellow QID & H20 Paint Correction 2 x Makita PE 12-175 PC 7424 3M UK BP Sonus Yellow Compounding Sonus White Polishing LCC Yellow 4 inch LCC White 4 inch Menzerna SIP Menzerna PF Menzerna 80RD Equipment Defelsko PTG Fenix Tk10 Halogen Brinkman 10 x 10 Canopy A bunch of spray bottles LSP Paint: Natty Blue Wheels: PB's Wheel Wax Tires: OPT BEFORES DURING First up is a test panel on the hood. I started off with white pad with PO85RD and there was minimal difference if anything at all. I then bumped it up to white pad with PF that did quite well however I had to make three passes with that combo to get to results I was happy with. I decided for most of the vehicle I would just use the combo of white and menz PF as I found the softness in the polishing pad was preferable over using a combo like Yellow and SIP and finish up with White, PF then White and PO85RD. It took me about 2-3 hours to get to this point. Was it worth it? Yes. Whoops just noticed that I am missing a step that I didn't take a picture of. The last picture above was after my second hit of the white pad and PF and not the third. Passenger side front passenger panel 50/50. Side mirror Sun shot of hood Above are 50/50's of different areas of the passenger door. If you are allergic to sexy legs turn a blind eye to these 50/50. Front passenger door and related area corrected. Plastic Trim on passenger side. Before and After. Rocker Panel 50/50 For the rear quarter i had to go with a more aggresive combo and had to hit the area with two hits of yellow and SIP then, white and PF and white with PO85rd Cleared up Another Part of the rocker Panel 50/50 Passenger Side completed just after polishing Side Mirror Cleared up Just a couple of correction shots. Trunk and Spoiler Corrected. Hood Roof Hood Rocker panel corrected Driver side corrected AFTERS Favourite Shot: Mind the George Constanza pose. :afro: Ignore the wax residue please. Finally a couple of pictures taken by the owner. Hope you enjoyed and please let me know in regards to areas I can approve on aside form those already stated. Time Worked: 19 Hours ( Day 1: 12 Hours, Day 2: 7 Hours)
sweet:thumb: i generally find that a lambswwol bonnet with menzerna intensive ( in more severe cases using some menzerna power gloss with the intensive to make it more workable ) followered by menzerna final finish ( blue top ) suits almost all the correction work ive done. the lambswool is sometimes a feared polishing head but it certainly gets results if used right. great job though matey:applause:
The Z looks great. I did one in that colour 2 years ago. The metal flake in the paint is gorgeous for that colour. You did a good job making the paint jump. I concur about wool. Get yourself a pfw pad..it's at the lesser of aggressiveness scale, yet still corrects well and quickly. I'll bet you could knock a few hours off your work...especially if you charge by the hour..or even more so if you just do so by the job...you'll work for more $/hr. My next purchase I'm gonna pick up a black Megs wool pad to try out.
Looks good :applause: What kind of canopy are you using? And in your equipment list you said Makita PE 12-175, do you mean Makita 9227 or Metabo PE 12-175?
Sorry i meant metabo. I'm using an Impact Canopy. It was expensive. Richy. Care to point me in the direction of the pfw pads? Are you talking about the purple wool from LC?
WOW, nice save, thanks for the awesome right up as usual! Had the customer seen your work before?? I'm sure he was ecstatic about the final results.
the pfw is the purple foamed wool...I think they're from lc but i'm not sure. lots of vendors including ag and some on here too i believe. check out hte vendors here and go to their pads section.
Fenix is great but I hate how expensive the batteries are. Thanks for the comments dsms and detaildoc
I have a light I'm currently using...It definitely does the same job as the Fenix, and costed $10! I'll post it up Monday after I get done with the M3 i'm detailing right now. I used it on a black Mazda this week, lemme tell you this light tells no lies! It is extremely bright and LED xenon I guess, whatever it is it shows EVERYTHING, definitely the best light I've ever used to show holograms and RIDS
