MirrorFinish
09-03-2011, 04:57 PM
Evening Everyone.
Quite a rear car here in England, mainly due to it being a V8. You have to be super rich to run a V8 here, lovely car though. It is my customers track car.
I viewed this car a few weeks ago and it had definately lost it's Mojo in the shine department. There was plenty of evident swirling taking the shine away from the paint and lots of holograms, which leaded me to think someone had had a go before. The marring and holograms were pretty nasty in the before pictures, but norhing that I could not remove.
So, yesterday and today the car was booked in for a 2 day correction. Nice working in the customers undergroud car park as it was lovely and cool down there.
Due to it being a private underground car park, the customer had to get the car washed off site as no car washing is allowed. Great for me as saves me a job!!!!!
I just went over the car with some ONR to make sure it was completly clean, then some Tardis on the tarry bits. I then clayed the car and the clay was pretty clean really.
After investing in a tripod, I hope my pics are a little bit more in focus this time!!!!!
Upon inspection under different light sources; me thinks someone has been here before. Paint readings were pretty much uniform over the car, but neallly all under 100um. Checked a few areas where clear would not be applied and I was getting 55um clear, so enough for this detail.
So on with the pics.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5729.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5730.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5731.jpg
Pretty swirly and plenty of holograms.
This is a 50/50 after a pass with Scholl S3 Gold after about 2 mins polishing with a Scholl Woll pad; pretty impressive I would say.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5732.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5733.jpg
Bonnet before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5734.jpg
Not bad for one 5 minute pass.
http://http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5743.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5744.jpg
Door frame before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5745.jpg
After 2 mins with S3 Gold. You can't grumble at the speed of correction.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5746.jpg
Door before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5747.jpg
Front Wing before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5752.jpg
Again after a pass of S3 Gold.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5753.jpg
Ended up looking like this.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5763.jpg
Front wing before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5767.jpg
After. Noticed I cleaned the badges as well.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5790.jpg
Cleaning badges.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5776.jpg
Front wing before refining.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5790.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5791.jpg
The whole car was fefined with Scholl S40. Very sinilar to Ultrifina as it is very oily.
Leaving me with this.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5794.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5795.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5798.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5799.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5801.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5802.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5803.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5804.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5805.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5806.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5807.jpg
And that is it, two full days work on this black beast.
I will not be using anything but Scholl polishes from now on. Big learning curve but what a product. With the S3 and a wool pad a wing corrected in almost 3 mins on a Merc with no clumping or dusting, nice oily polish and a great finish.
The beauty is the cut was vary fast which allowed much more time refining the finish, hence much more reflections. Think the old Menz, 3M and Megs polishes will be now redundant.
The car was then given a wipe down with IPA then LSP for the day was Opti Seal. Opti Seal was applied to the wheels and the wheels and arches were dressed.
All in all a great motor to work on. I loved the way the polishes workes for me and brought this beast back to black.
Hope you all enjoy reading.
Cheers
Steve :car:
Quite a rear car here in England, mainly due to it being a V8. You have to be super rich to run a V8 here, lovely car though. It is my customers track car.
I viewed this car a few weeks ago and it had definately lost it's Mojo in the shine department. There was plenty of evident swirling taking the shine away from the paint and lots of holograms, which leaded me to think someone had had a go before. The marring and holograms were pretty nasty in the before pictures, but norhing that I could not remove.
So, yesterday and today the car was booked in for a 2 day correction. Nice working in the customers undergroud car park as it was lovely and cool down there.
Due to it being a private underground car park, the customer had to get the car washed off site as no car washing is allowed. Great for me as saves me a job!!!!!
I just went over the car with some ONR to make sure it was completly clean, then some Tardis on the tarry bits. I then clayed the car and the clay was pretty clean really.
After investing in a tripod, I hope my pics are a little bit more in focus this time!!!!!
Upon inspection under different light sources; me thinks someone has been here before. Paint readings were pretty much uniform over the car, but neallly all under 100um. Checked a few areas where clear would not be applied and I was getting 55um clear, so enough for this detail.
So on with the pics.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5729.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5730.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5731.jpg
Pretty swirly and plenty of holograms.
This is a 50/50 after a pass with Scholl S3 Gold after about 2 mins polishing with a Scholl Woll pad; pretty impressive I would say.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5732.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5733.jpg
Bonnet before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5734.jpg
Not bad for one 5 minute pass.
http://http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5743.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5744.jpg
Door frame before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5745.jpg
After 2 mins with S3 Gold. You can't grumble at the speed of correction.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5746.jpg
Door before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5747.jpg
Front Wing before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5752.jpg
Again after a pass of S3 Gold.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5753.jpg
Ended up looking like this.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5763.jpg
Front wing before.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5767.jpg
After. Noticed I cleaned the badges as well.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5790.jpg
Cleaning badges.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5776.jpg
Front wing before refining.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5790.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5791.jpg
The whole car was fefined with Scholl S40. Very sinilar to Ultrifina as it is very oily.
Leaving me with this.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5794.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5795.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5798.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5799.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5801.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5802.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5803.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5804.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5805.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5806.jpg
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac347/mirrorfinishuk/SL55/DSCN5807.jpg
And that is it, two full days work on this black beast.
I will not be using anything but Scholl polishes from now on. Big learning curve but what a product. With the S3 and a wool pad a wing corrected in almost 3 mins on a Merc with no clumping or dusting, nice oily polish and a great finish.
The beauty is the cut was vary fast which allowed much more time refining the finish, hence much more reflections. Think the old Menz, 3M and Megs polishes will be now redundant.
The car was then given a wipe down with IPA then LSP for the day was Opti Seal. Opti Seal was applied to the wheels and the wheels and arches were dressed.
All in all a great motor to work on. I loved the way the polishes workes for me and brought this beast back to black.
Hope you all enjoy reading.
Cheers
Steve :car: