Subaru BRZ: Scratch Removal & Show Prep

[KoshiL]

Nasty Scratch on the hood

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Touched up, sanded flat and initial compounding. Looks like its completely out in a single coat of touch up paint.

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Another angle.

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Blurry cell phone picture (hands were dirty). Compounding out the roof.

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Polished out and coated with a lite glass coating.

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Results:

Hood scratch polished and coated.

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We're done for this visit, the coating needs about 72 hours before getting it wet.

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Back a few days later for a wash.

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Water beading, no soap yet.

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With such a large selection of paint coatings available, its important to have foam to wash cars. Soap & Water would simply slide off any car thats properly maintained.

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We washed the car with your typical muti bucket washes. Our twist is that we bright our own cold R.O. water for a fast rinse before we dry it in the install bay.

After drying we coated the car with Menzerna Power lock using a FLEX DA an 7" blue CCS pad.


Results:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7390/13995766252_f9303ba8e4_c.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/people/120817114@N05/) (https://flic.kr/p/njKXGG)

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https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5197/13975861336_e5451c21dc_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/nhZWEu) (https://flic.kr/p/nhZWEu)

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14018968823_914b454ca2_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/nmNT22) [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/120817114@N05/] (https://flic.kr/p/nmNT22)

[jms493]

Paint looks virtually perfect. Great job....so rewarding!

[thebamboo23]

That subie is so sexy!

Good work Koshi!

[Sicoupe]

Beautiful job:)

[custmsprty]

Great job,you do excellent work, looking good except for all the stickers on it.

[KoshiL]

Thanks for all the feed back!


Great job,you do excellent work, looking good except for all the stickers on it.

Problem fixed :D lol :xyxthumbs:

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[billboard2001]

Awesome work. That subie looks so liquid!

[custmsprty]

Thanks for all the feed back!



Problem fixed :D lol :xyxthumbs:

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Now that's more like it :dblthumb2:

[RawDetail]

If I were in the market that's the way I would mod it. Very nice.

How did you like the CeramicPro coating, compared with Cquartz?

[KoshiL]

C.quartz and CeramicPro are two completely different products. In heavy layers c.quartz is pretty durable.

With ceramicpro you can see the results are drastically glossier and more hydrophobic. Even the LITE version.

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Outstanding work and beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing.

[Tato]

Outstanding work and beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing.

:iagree:

Also browsed through your flicker (entered there 'by accident'), couldn't stop watching until hitting the end.

Enjoyed both your car work and dog pictures, it's nice to see the photos took from someone who enjoys taking them.

From the little I saw, looks like you are having plenty of enjoyable time while doing the wonders you do detailing.

Seeing things like this is what inspires people like me to move on and keep investing on this job.

Thanks for sharing,

No need to say more regarding the actual job, hope one day I can achieve that level of perfection.

Kind Regards.

[KoshiL]

My account is completely public! Aside detailing.

I work full time for SSP Auto Salon and its sister company Pearls & Pigments. We do everything from Full race Nissan GTR's to rat rods and custom sound systems! My detailing salon is the next door over :)

I do all social media, marketing, and pictures so tons of stuff get uploaded :) Its updated regularly so feel free to check back and share anything.

[JKL1031]

Nasty Scratch on the hood








Blurry cell phone picture (hands were dirty). Compounding out the roof.




Polished out and coated with a lite glass coating.



Results:

Hood scratch polished and coated.






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Back a few days later for a wash.

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Am I seeing reflections in reflections on the door here? Im the MAN

[zckid]

top notch :dblthumb2: