Chamo
09-15-2010, 07:28 PM
So I started doing my brother's car yesterday. it's an 05' mistu lancer Red in color although it looks nothing but pink.
I started washing the car with the two bucket..... and all that and then claybar/ONR for getting all the contamination around the whole car; and you just couldn't believe how much crap came out after every panel, AMAZING!
Anyway, since the paint was in really bad conditions and it literally looks like somebody sprayed some white stuff all over it (that's why it looks pink) I decided to go straight to Meg's 105 using a LC yellow pad and hopefully get some of that stuff out and some RED color back, but for my surprise after doing a 2x2' on the hood the finish looked awesome but my yellow pad was RED and it looks like a lot of that paint came off and on to that pad. all I used was some pad conditioner and 105 spread on to the 6" yellow pad using a Griott's garage dual action polisher (speed-6) like I did on my civic and I just didn't feel confident enough to continue using the same stuff all over the car.
My bro told me he tried to "polish" it before with some polisher he got at autozone +a turtle wax "polisher" and the same thing happened, even when doing it by hand apparently. I'm not sure what is appening here but in my not-to-experienced opinion it seems like this dude don't have any clear coat left AT ALL, or it might be normal on these model due to not that great paint job.
As far as I'm aware the paint should be original. Anyway here are some pics to explain better this whole deal and hopefully get some answers because I really want to do this car and make it look awesome like it probably did some day!
thanks
First time posting a new thread so not sure how to attach pictures and I hope I got it right if not please tell me how to do it.
Anyway you can see in those pics how the car looked before and after with some close ups shots again before and after (focusing on the Xenon spotlight and the paint details), I also took a pic of the yellow pad so you can see how it end up RED after only one 2x2 fix with Meg's 105; camera is pretty nice and my brother also good with it so I hope you can really see what I'm talking about.
Again thanks a lot!
I started washing the car with the two bucket..... and all that and then claybar/ONR for getting all the contamination around the whole car; and you just couldn't believe how much crap came out after every panel, AMAZING!
Anyway, since the paint was in really bad conditions and it literally looks like somebody sprayed some white stuff all over it (that's why it looks pink) I decided to go straight to Meg's 105 using a LC yellow pad and hopefully get some of that stuff out and some RED color back, but for my surprise after doing a 2x2' on the hood the finish looked awesome but my yellow pad was RED and it looks like a lot of that paint came off and on to that pad. all I used was some pad conditioner and 105 spread on to the 6" yellow pad using a Griott's garage dual action polisher (speed-6) like I did on my civic and I just didn't feel confident enough to continue using the same stuff all over the car.
My bro told me he tried to "polish" it before with some polisher he got at autozone +a turtle wax "polisher" and the same thing happened, even when doing it by hand apparently. I'm not sure what is appening here but in my not-to-experienced opinion it seems like this dude don't have any clear coat left AT ALL, or it might be normal on these model due to not that great paint job.
As far as I'm aware the paint should be original. Anyway here are some pics to explain better this whole deal and hopefully get some answers because I really want to do this car and make it look awesome like it probably did some day!
thanks
First time posting a new thread so not sure how to attach pictures and I hope I got it right if not please tell me how to do it.
Anyway you can see in those pics how the car looked before and after with some close ups shots again before and after (focusing on the Xenon spotlight and the paint details), I also took a pic of the yellow pad so you can see how it end up RED after only one 2x2 fix with Meg's 105; camera is pretty nice and my brother also good with it so I hope you can really see what I'm talking about.
Again thanks a lot!