sunstealth
03-23-2011, 01:07 PM
hello, this morning i decided to "attack" the lancer paint since I had the good idea yesterday to go through a carwash for a prewash before a ONR wash, needless to say i selected the wrong option and I had to endure the goretex brushes instead of the touchless :doh:
I used my rotary to remove the deep scratches, worked well.
then i went to try my new griots polisher.
1st pass with a orange pad and ultimate compound (2x2 square, a good 4 minutes of overlapping square passes ) it then looked decent, still some small scratches/swirls there.
2nd pass, i went with a green pad and optimum opti-seal,looked a lot better still something there not to my liking (same overlap method as said before)
3rd pass, blue pad optimum finish , i dunno what happened, it leaved a deadly haze on the paint, had to go back to opti seal.
tryed optimum car-wax after that, it was hard as hell to remove and streaked a lot.
weather condition were around -5 degree celcius and sunny, the car is a black 2008 mitsubishi lancer. front end repainted.
any tricks to improve the paint look ( I can evaluate it to be around 80% better than before, id like to get it to look a lil better still)
thank you.
I used my rotary to remove the deep scratches, worked well.
then i went to try my new griots polisher.
1st pass with a orange pad and ultimate compound (2x2 square, a good 4 minutes of overlapping square passes ) it then looked decent, still some small scratches/swirls there.
2nd pass, i went with a green pad and optimum opti-seal,looked a lot better still something there not to my liking (same overlap method as said before)
3rd pass, blue pad optimum finish , i dunno what happened, it leaved a deadly haze on the paint, had to go back to opti seal.
tryed optimum car-wax after that, it was hard as hell to remove and streaked a lot.
weather condition were around -5 degree celcius and sunny, the car is a black 2008 mitsubishi lancer. front end repainted.
any tricks to improve the paint look ( I can evaluate it to be around 80% better than before, id like to get it to look a lil better still)
thank you.