2 Step Time

[njarmstrong81]

Yesterday I completed a 2 step correction on my car. Not counting the wash, decontamination, claying, and taping time, it took me just over 6 hours to complete the car. I used PF2500 on a LC White (orange for a couple areas there were a bit rough) and SF4500 on a LC Blue. Did 4-5 passes on each step, the first 3 at 5.5 then dialled down to 4 and reduced pressure to finish out.

I did each section completely before moving on, rather than doing the first step on the whole thing, then the second, not sure if that increased or decreased my time.

Does that seem like a reasonable amount of time?

[KMG]

You didn't say what car you were working on which makes a huge difference. Is it the GT-R in your picture?

[njarmstrong81]

Yes sorry, my GTR.

[KMG]

Don't sound unreasonable. Don't seem like it needed a lot of correction since you got away with using PF2500 to start and probably jeweled it with SF4500. Where you get into a lot more time is when it needs heavy compounding to remove a lot of defects. For what you did it sounds reasonable though. Lets see some pics!

[njarmstrong81]

Yeah it was is pretty good shape, nothing major, just a few swirls from the dealer. I would say I got it about 90-95%. Didn't want to hunt perfection on it, I will post some up after I get my CQUK on later today. Very happy with the results thus far.

[allenk4]

Did you do a test spot?

Decreasing the number of passes in each step by even one pass can save a lot of time.

Speed of 5 1/2 is pretty high for SF4500