My first paint correction.

[Disciple]

Did my first full paint correction today. The paint was near on for shagged. So many swirls, so much hazing and marring. There was a really thick coat of wax on it covering up heaps of crap. Once I stripped back the wax and clayed it (I rubbished 2 clay bars on this thing), I knew what I was working with.

So basically what I did was:

Wash with dish soap to remove the wax, rinse.
Foam gun, rinse.
Wash, rinse, dry.
Clay bar, dry.
WGTSR 3.0 + blue light cutting pad for most surfaces (roof and bonnet needed M. Ultimate Compound)
WGFG 3.0 with Orange polishing pad.
WGDGPS applied by hand.

Tomorrow I'm going to just hit it with some DG Auquawax and she should be sweet.

Total of 9 hours spent today. I'm completely rooted. I lunched 2 of my blue (cyan) cutting pads. They just disintegrated for whatever reason. Realised I'm going to need some stronger cutting pads too because the WGTSR and blue pad didn't even touch the marring on the roof, and that was with my Concours 900 on speed setting 6 and using basically all the force I could with slow arm movement.

Anyway, enough jibber jabber, time for some pics...

Before...

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9613/img0530y.jpg
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8011/img0531bi.jpg
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/4653/img0545eb.jpg
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/7474/img0547vj.jpg


After...

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/3530/img0549th.jpg
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9092/img0550cr.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8940/img0558lk.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/706/img0560ic.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7181/img0562gc.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5666/img0563ob.jpg
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4186/img0567fw.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3854/img0569pa.jpg

Thanks for looking and reading!

Any feedback is welcome.

[bullitt 736]

Looks nice!

Too much pressure is probably what destroyed your pads.

[Mike Phillips]

Looks great!

You took a swirled-out mess and made it look better than a new car on the dealership showroom floor.

Nice work!


:xyxthumbs:

[JAF06SE]

Looks nice!

Too much pressure is probably what destroyed your pads.

Agreed. Looks good man. Good work.

[GS2011]

Looks great! :xyxthumbs:

[Eandras]

Great job.

[LF911PCR]

Nice!

[Disciple]

Thanks for all the replies guys!

So to stop lunching my pads in future, should I buy a couple stronger cutting pads to use with the M. Ultimate Compound? I really liked it as a product. It dusted up much less than the WGTSR, and had more cut. When I took the shot pads off my polisher, the backing plate was very hot, which I don't think helped. It would be nice to be able to apply less pressure and get the same amount of cut.

[Mike Phillips]

should I buy a couple stronger cutting pads to use with the M. Ultimate Compound? I really liked it as a product. It dusted up much less than the WGTSR, and had more cut.







WGTSR 3.0 + blue light cutting pad for most surfaces (roof and bonnet needed M. Ultimate Compound)

WGFG 3.0 with Orange polishing pad.




Are you talking about the 5.5" Hydro-Tech pads?


Or something else?



:)

[Disciple]

This kit here Mike...

Lake Country H2O 5.25" Pad Kit (http://www.waxit.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=565&category_id=35&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1)

I think I might just need a 6" yellow pad from Lake Country?

Can I use a 6.5 inch pad on a 6" backing plate?

[Disciple]

Went out and hit the whole car with some DG Aquawax this morning, Aquawax on the wheels too, dressed the tyres and cleaned the glass.

Some final pics...

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9127/img0572fv.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/873/img0576sh.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/4732/img0575wz.jpg
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1250/img0574y.jpg
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/325/img0573rp.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9129/img0577ad.jpg
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/797/img0578r.jpg
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9845/img0579lb.jpg
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4817/img0580mb.jpg

The owner was absolutely ecstatic when I dropped it off this morning. :)

[FASTFRED]

That looks beautiful ! :xyxthumbs:

[lokerola]

Looks awesome.

Yea, it's a bummer to destroy pads. I fried some orange CCS pads earlier this summer. I used too much product and it they overheated and melted the center of the velcro backing.

[Disciple]

Cheers guys! I learnt (learned for Americans :P) so much. I learnt I need a couple stronger cutting pads, a couple more light cutting pads, and a few more high quality buffing MF cloths. I also learnt it takes a lot of force, effort and most of all patience, to do a whole car, and do it properly. But most importantly I learnt that I really enjoy doing this, and I'm actually good at it, and have a good eye for it.

I'm doing my mates brand new Hyundai Veloster Turbo (white) next Monday, so I'll get some more pics. Hopefully it's in pretty good condition and I can save my poor arms lol!.

[ProDetail]

Great Job! Bummer on the pads though, live n learn is sometimes the best teacher. Can't wait to see the next one.