First time: Volvo 240 Wagon

[Jordan]

I just bought a Porter Cable 7424 XP and had to try it out on my car, a Volvo 240 with 275k on it. All in all I am pretty satisfied with how it turned out, but I wasn't able to get rid of all the RIDS or swirl scratches. Perhaps I need to apply more pressure? The paint seemed pretty hard.


Here's some other stuff I used:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/004.jpg

The car before, but after a washing:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/016.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/014.jpg

A bad scratch:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/0def8da2.jpg

Cloudy light:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/012.jpg


Three hours later:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/032.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/042-1.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/047-1.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/045.jpg


Same scratch as earlier, now mostly gone:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/043.jpg

Not so cloudy light:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/Clipboard01.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/030.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/038-1.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j129/hoopd87/050-1.jpg


I didn't even attempt the roof, as the clearcoat is almost completely gone from an incident the previous original owner had with a garage door. It's well beyond anything I could fix.

[jayhkr]

Looks really good! Nice job. How did you like using the Pinnacle brand?

[davet]

Nice results there