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DrMike · #1 11-05-2006, 08:57 PM

My buddy has his car up for sale so I offered to polish it up for him to help it sell better. It's not the original paint and the previous owner really neglected it. Lots of deep scratches I didn't have time to take out. I went over half the car with the PC with yellow LC pad and XMT3 before I realized AIO would remove the haze and bring out the black again. Still, XMT3 and yellow pad combo wasn't taking out many scratches. I decided to try 3M FinesseIt 2 on a little section with a clean yellow pad and speed 6 on the PC. Wow, did that make a difference! We decided to redo the hood with that and leave the rest of the car with just XMT3 followed by 1, then carnuaba glaze and s100.

We were all really amazed it turned out so well. I think I need a black car next because they look so awesome when polished and swirl free

Before:

After some XMT3:

After S100:

P1et · #2 11-05-2006, 09:05 PM

Holy $(*%$!!! That is one HUGE turnaround!!! They say that XMT3 is like liquid sandpaper, but MAN am I sold on what you did!!! Excellent job!!! That last shot is out of this world...

Excessive Detail · #3 11-05-2006, 09:14 PM

Great job man, very impressive turnaround, I really love those cars, the blue one is yours?
I have used xmt 3 too with very good results too, did you get a lot of dusting from the polish.

alban61 · #4 11-05-2006, 09:17 PM

Very nice job!! Seeing that 1st pic and then looking at the last....AWESOME!!

DrMike · #5 11-05-2006, 09:24 PM

Thanks guys!

Excessive, yep that's my blue one, all dirty from sitting outside in the storm so we could polish the black one

Yeah I did get a lot of dusting at first. I wonder if we worked the polish down too far? I was thinking later it might have been foam coming off the yellow pad because it started to lose some chunks around the edges, lol.

I took a pic of the dust just to ask about it on here because people say XMT doesn't dust.

ryandamartini · #6 11-05-2006, 09:34 PM

Now does everyone see why I am the fanboy for XMT3 ?

sparkie · #7 11-05-2006, 11:51 PM

Nice turnaround! Great job. The dust pic, if you had used Megs, there would be 4X the dusts. XMT3 has little dust to none, its got something to do with the paint IMO on how much dust you get.

supercharged · #8 11-06-2006, 12:12 AM

WOW! What an awesome job!

DrMike · #9 11-06-2006, 12:17 AM

Thanks guys. I only charged him $100, lol.

DrMike · #10 11-06-2006, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sparkie

Nice turnaround! Great job. The dust pic, if you had used Megs, there would be 4X the dusts. XMT3 has little dust to none, its got something to do with the paint IMO on how much dust you get.

good to know. I guess there wasn't a horrible amount of dust.