Hi guys. Myself and a friend of mine Martin (djmp23 on DW) recently had a good go at a paint correction on his Dad's 2000 Jaguar XKR. It's our first proper paint correction so go easy will ya. First off. HUGE thanks to Dave at Screentech in Hessle, without the use of his unit we'd have struggled massively, so thanks Dave :thumb: Here are the results. I think it was about 90% corrected by the time we finished. The Jag had a LOT of deep swirl marks and RDS'. It had been resprayed in a few places in the past. The paint guys had done a lovely job of making sure there were at least a burn mark or two and some nice extra swirl marks from their machine 'polishing'. It took us 2 days to do. We're more than happy with the way it went and because of it, it looks like we'll be working on other Jaguars and Aston Martin's in the near future as a Jag specialist saw our work :thumb: Day 1 Car power washed, sprayed with Elite Snow Foam which was left to dwell for 10 - 15 mins and then rinsed off. Next was to try out Turbowax Car Shampoo sent to me from the U.S to test and review. Very good stuff as it happens and cleans well :thumb: Car was then rinsed off again and we moved on to the wheels. Again, Turbowax Wheel Cleaner was used and it is also a great product to use. Goes on lightly but then as you use a wheel brush it foams up well. I used a ValetPRO wheel brush which is a really sorted and good quality piece of kit it use! Paint was flat as a fart and hadn't been waxed in ages. Bird poo marks abounded on the roof. The Jag was then bought inside then unit where it dried naturally as there's a huge heating system in there We used a Meguiars Clay Kit to clay it and didn't half pull out some dirt too :doublesho This after one small section. After claying the car it was very obvious that this wasn't going to be an easy job at all. Day 2 The beast prepped and ready to be machine polished. 50/50 of the boot. After a pass with a Sonus-SFX 2 Enhance pad and SFX-2 polish it was obvious we were going nowhere fast so the SFX-1 Restore pad and SFX-1 polish was cracked out. This pic is after one pass with SFX-2 and 1 pass with SFX-1. After another pass with SFX-1 and it's starting to look better Nearly perfect, but this is before the final polish etc Onto the bonnet and a couple of 50/50 shots after a couple of passes with SFX-1. After 2 passes with SFX-1 and 1 pass with SFX-2 we ended up with this After we'd finished using the combination of SFX-1 and SFX-2 on the body we finished with 1 pass across the entire car of SFX-3 Final Finish Polish and a SFX-4 Final Finish pad and ended up with this lovely deep red colour. Got to say I'm well impresses with the Sonus stuff:thumb: Next stage was onto using a favourite product of mine: ValetPRO Orion's Shield. Great stuff, easy to use and lasts 3+ months easily Application Take off Orion's Shield Final wax. Aristoclass Premium Wax. A Japanese Carnauba wax which is £62 a tin and lasts 7+ months. Spreads easily and can be taken off after just 30 seconds.:thumb: Wheels finished with Rimwax and tyres finished with ValetPRO Protectant used neat. Exhaust tips. Can't remember what was used. I'll ask Martin. Not all was gone but hugely improved as you can see compared to earlier. Photos of the car inside the unit. Nice reflection shots The next day Martin and his Dad came to collect the Jag and couldn't believe it but the sun came out!
Great job! Car looks great. I did not know you wher on DB! I know you from the sample program over on DW! Any headway on that Jap wax you where trying to do samples of, what about the one you used in this detail. Anyways great work and good to see ya hear (Just noticed because of your avatar, haha)
black and red, best colors to show off a great detail my LSP bug has me curious with this aristoclass
Hi. Thanks for the comment:thumb: The new Jap Naviwax will be available next week. Just waiting for my little 30ml sample pots to arrive so I can transfer it to them etc. Keep an eye out on DW for them :thumb:
