mjk778
06-03-2014, 07:21 PM
Thanks to this forum and all the helpful advice, I decided to correct the paint on my mercedes c300 with ceramiclear white paint. The paint was not bad, but was filled with swirls and had some particularly bad scratches (enough to lightly catch a fingernail) and some dark marks that I'm not sure what caused. The hood in particular was the worst. I tried in the past to correct by hand with mothers three step but no success. The plastic bumpers and side molding are not great but we're not my concern as I may get them resprayed, and wanted to focus on the rest of the car.
Products I used:
Harbor freight DA
lC 5in backing plate, CCS pads, euro foam applicators
Menzerna SF1500 and SF4000
Mothers sealer/glaze, carnauba, clay kit
Megueirs ultimate compound
Plexus
After hand washing and claying I taped off the car although I could have done a better job.
Performing a test spot I determined the entire car needed orange pad w SF1500 and certain spots needed compound.
After I used SF4500 w gray pad, sealer with gray, and finally a coat of carnauba w red pad.
For Plastic trim and clean up, I used plexus although I need to go over with some other plastic trim restorer
All in all I corrected about 85% and I got out almost all of the problem areas I wanted to. Aside from roasting 2 pads (maybe pressing too hard or overheating) everything was flawless but extremely time consuming at roughly 22 hours just on this.
After wash and clay
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/78E59A66-826D-4121-9B85-5AC6C35BB7F5.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/E9448769-921B-44E1-BF18-2DD246E2D5CC.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/F4FF5E88-5A1A-4860-92A4-9F6A69BDFA61.jpg
Before/after
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/BA84C9DC-1CC2-4687-BD1A-0DF4F2131E70.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/97CF2D63-A873-460C-9344-2F6256A705C1.jpg
After
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/DAB1E0E3-80AD-466F-B31F-EE39EE2C52B7.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/46B77576-2EB2-4213-B458-202A3F6865D9.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/DC88AF7D-4AD8-49D0-B8FF-7434F7CD2B35.jpg
After
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/A75630A5-C931-4061-9B20-8C6FE3A79551.jpg
Finished car. Obviously I'm not a pro photographer
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/1CA3A0D9-DBBD-48A4-8E3F-23817232B5FD.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/4B173B8E-AE72-4D32-8B6A-127D0A7EA2CE.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/FC90E263-0AE7-43F2-91FC-E77AD6F39797.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/83FA8B7D-7707-410B-8D91-4E0D8F97219F.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/F8A6CB64-2AF0-4C0E-8AB6-47961734E267.jpg
Products I used:
Harbor freight DA
lC 5in backing plate, CCS pads, euro foam applicators
Menzerna SF1500 and SF4000
Mothers sealer/glaze, carnauba, clay kit
Megueirs ultimate compound
Plexus
After hand washing and claying I taped off the car although I could have done a better job.
Performing a test spot I determined the entire car needed orange pad w SF1500 and certain spots needed compound.
After I used SF4500 w gray pad, sealer with gray, and finally a coat of carnauba w red pad.
For Plastic trim and clean up, I used plexus although I need to go over with some other plastic trim restorer
All in all I corrected about 85% and I got out almost all of the problem areas I wanted to. Aside from roasting 2 pads (maybe pressing too hard or overheating) everything was flawless but extremely time consuming at roughly 22 hours just on this.
After wash and clay
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/78E59A66-826D-4121-9B85-5AC6C35BB7F5.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/E9448769-921B-44E1-BF18-2DD246E2D5CC.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/F4FF5E88-5A1A-4860-92A4-9F6A69BDFA61.jpg
Before/after
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/BA84C9DC-1CC2-4687-BD1A-0DF4F2131E70.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/97CF2D63-A873-460C-9344-2F6256A705C1.jpg
After
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/DAB1E0E3-80AD-466F-B31F-EE39EE2C52B7.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/46B77576-2EB2-4213-B458-202A3F6865D9.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/DC88AF7D-4AD8-49D0-B8FF-7434F7CD2B35.jpg
After
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/A75630A5-C931-4061-9B20-8C6FE3A79551.jpg
Finished car. Obviously I'm not a pro photographer
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/1CA3A0D9-DBBD-48A4-8E3F-23817232B5FD.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/4B173B8E-AE72-4D32-8B6A-127D0A7EA2CE.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/FC90E263-0AE7-43F2-91FC-E77AD6F39797.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/83FA8B7D-7707-410B-8D91-4E0D8F97219F.jpg
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z480/Mjk7781/F8A6CB64-2AF0-4C0E-8AB6-47961734E267.jpg