The Background: Some of you may remember that I was in a fender bender many months ago. I took the insurance check and did the body work myself. One of the things I needed to do, was replace my driver side front fender. I bought one from a local junk yard that was in pretty good shape overall. However, there was major water spotting everywhere.
Yellow pad with XMT3 and/or OC would not take it out, barely made an indent. I must of polished the fender over 4 times everytime I "jewel" my paint.
The mission: Wetsand the water spots out of the fender and polish back to a near flawless finish.
Process: The only sandpaper that I could get was 1500 grit, I would of like 2000 or even 3000, but I had to do with this. I let sit in warm water for about 3 hours.
I very lightly sanded the fender after squirting water onto the fender with a squirt gone. (I did a test spot first.) This only took a matter of minutes.
Following this I then polished the fender for 5min with the following:
OC on Yellow Edge pad - Started speed 5.5, and then bumped up to 6.
XMT3 on Green Edge pad (I was planning on using XMT2, but I realized I needed still needed a little more bite after OC) - Speed 6 entire time
XMT1 on light cut yellow pad (I got this from Aaron at edge. It feels just like the soft blue/white pads) - Speed 5.5
PB's Natty's Blue on White Edge - Spread on speed 3. (I've never applied wax via PC, so I wanted to try something new)
Overall, I was pretty pleased after all said and done. I would do it again, but I would get 2000 grit for sure.
PICS!!!
These are all the waterspots I was dealing with:
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