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zckid
11-02-2016, 02:25 AM
Hi friends!

Greetings from the sunny Mauritius.

This Nippon lady came to us for an enhancement. The car was in good shape in every way apart from being rather wrongly cared for in the paint department. It had a previous detailing job somewhere and a few visits to local car washes. It had sanding marks inflicted but not removed and holograms all over resulting from wrong machining techniques/ aggressive products and pads on a notoriously soft factory black Honda paint, Nighthawk Black Pearl. The car washes only added to the injury with more swirls and scratches. Another factor is the constant digging of trenches, all working their way to pollute our roads further. In reality, the paintwork was butchered and skinned.

Upon arrival
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Dirt Bath

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More dirt

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Close-up
Scratches seen under the dirt

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Look closely… rare skin condition!
More will be revealed

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The wheels

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OMG! How to avoid this when our roads are in a forever “employ people to dig holes and fill them back” fashion “à la Keynes”?

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You would say a truck but it goes long to say how much polluted our roads have become in the name of development.

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Heavily contaminated

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Decon started after cleaning

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Bleeding process

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Clayed to get rid of all “toxin”

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After washing, decon and rinse, the car is brought inside for claying

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To the paintwork

Claying – round 1

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1st and 2nd rounds of clay, is there more?

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yes, moving to 3rd round. Chemicals alone wouldn’t remove all the contaminants.

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At last, I felt reassured, the clay removed very little contaminants.
After 2 x decon and 3 x clay

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Wheels are sealed

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Car was rinsed

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It was plain to see what we had to attend to. Letting the pics speak.

Heavy swirls in the sun

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swirls and holograms

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more

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sanding marks from a different angle

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Skinned paint: still more sanding marks, visible in the shade

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haziness caused by sanding and improper wash

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sanding remains on bumper

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door handle area

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More than swirls, look carefully

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Can you see the patches?

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skin disease

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A heavily localized area

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Still more

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flake off

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bird dropping damage and heavy water spots on the sun roof

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Deep scratches were common too

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On the bottom left, a checking, may be a result of a collision

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close-up

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zckid
11-02-2016, 02:48 AM
just under the ACCORD badge

may be someone wanted to steal it or ....???

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the glass with water spots and smearing

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close-up

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After correction....
The glass has some deep scratches which unfortunately,

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Moving onto paint correction.... the beads of product

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The bonnet....
During.... a very sticky paint providing still another hurdle to the correction process

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the bonnet after

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inch by inch testing after refinement of a section

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Extreme close-up.... the metallic pearls from the paint now surface out

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The fender on the passenger's side

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Almost done

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still not satisfied

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Refined
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The Headlights have not been attended to for years

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Cataract .... eye diease

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difficult to capture on camera

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the state of the bumper

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Almost done

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Taking it a little further... the haziness is only the polish, needs a wipe off only

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The side mirror

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Looks good (y).... but it's only one side of the story

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From other angles and different sources of light, you can see those patches? .... these are sanding marks from previous "jobs" on the paint

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Reworking everything.... which has been same for all areas of this ride

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all gone but not perfect. a couple of deep scratches remain but I was prepared to take it.

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A not so 50-50 shot during the correction stage

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Needing rework… and rework

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Different defects spotted using different sources of light at different angles

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Almost…

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The other side.... Both sides have been worked and again, which goes to say how much this baby had to suffer

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improved

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Another view

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The best shot by miles

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The finishing pics of the detail process.
All external paintwork corrected, refined, and protected, glass and headlights restored and sealed which left us with this.... please enjoy

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mirror mirror

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At night

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Weeks later.

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Thanks for viewing. Your thoughts are most welcome

Cheers
Zaid

GSKR
11-02-2016, 05:41 AM
Nice turn around that car was a mess.

SPIROS ANTONIOU
11-02-2016, 05:52 AM
Amazing transformation my friend ,black honda(i think the colour is the nighthawk) is always a pain to finish with rotary .once again cograts for your results and your passion for detailing

Just02896
11-02-2016, 06:29 AM
Is that an Acura TSX rebranded as an Accord? Either way, nice job! Major turn around for a very neglected / abused vehicle.

Gav'sPurpleZ
11-02-2016, 09:39 AM
amazing turn around !

BrutalNoodle
11-02-2016, 10:01 PM
Agree with everyone; beautiful work. :props:

Not easy dealing with correction AND stopping to document the process. Thank you for sharing.

rbss
11-02-2016, 10:32 PM
Dang what a mess. Awesome job the car looks great!

pickles
11-03-2016, 12:35 AM
Is that an Acura TSX rebranded as an Accord? Either way, nice job! Major turn around for a very neglected / abused vehicle.


That's exactly what I was thinking.

Sicoupe
11-03-2016, 09:42 AM
Outstanding job my friend!

zckid
11-03-2016, 01:21 PM
Nice turn around that car was a mess.


Thanks a lot Pal


Amazing transformation my friend ,black honda(i think the colour is the nighthawk) is always a pain to finish with rotary .once again cograts for your results and your passion for detailing

Thanks Spiros. Yes, it's the Nighthawk, had to finish with flex 3401 to remove all holograms. it's the softest paint we have here, most sticky i'd say. I tried all sorts of tricks to remove the polish residue but it marred the finish. I ended using hot water with the softest towel to do so.

zckid
11-03-2016, 01:31 PM
Is that an Acura TSX rebranded as an Accord? Either way, nice job! Major turn around for a very neglected / abused vehicle.


That's exactly what I was thinking.

Thanks guys :)
In terms of look, may be. We have very few Acura here, mostly Accords.

zckid
11-03-2016, 01:35 PM
amazing turn around !


Agree with everyone; beautiful work. :props:

Not easy dealing with correction AND stopping to document the process. Thank you for sharing.


Dang what a mess. Awesome job the car looks great!


Outstanding job my friend!

Thanks a lot everyone. Your encouraging words most appreciated :)
It’s a dream come true for the owner.

chriskraft3
11-27-2016, 11:44 AM
I thought the car was black when looking through the before photos. Only after you started working on it did I realize it was a very dark blue. WOW.

coles_paint_correction
11-27-2016, 04:13 PM
Great turnaround, came from a nightmare to a shiny restored piece of art!