Lady in Red - 1986 Porsche - 4-Step Process

[Black's Magic]

Mike, that looks incredible but that goes without saying for your work. Forgive me if I missed it, but what coating did you use after the Paint Prep? Thanks

[R4IDER]

Hey make , im having a hard time removing some linear scratches from my car.

Like this one i marked in one of your pictures, all the rest goes after a few passes, but some are resilient and after many passes still wont come out , and i cant feel them with my nail also.




I have a griots , mf pads , foam pads , many compounds and polishes.

What do you recomend?

[ShaunD]

3m 5000 grit to feather it out.

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[Mike Phillips]

Hey make , im having a hard time removing some linear scratches from my car.

Like this one i marked in one of your pictures, all the rest goes after a few passes, but some are resilient and after many passes still wont come out , and i cant feel them with my nail also.




I have a griots , mf pads , foam pads , many compounds and polishes.

What do you recomend?

Any scratches that are not coming out are either RIDS or you just need to either spend more time/passes removing more paint to level the surface or get more aggressive.


Remind us...


What are you working on?


And just to note.. the scratches shown in the above picture all polished easy with the tool I was using plus pad and the Uber compound.

[Vegas Transplant]

Thank you sir... always nice to see people appreciate not only the hard work but the pictures too...

...and polished the aluminum wheels starting at 8:00am this morning and finished at about 11:30am.


By "all by hand" I polished everything that was red, all the paint on the front of the grill, around the whale tail, ever portion of red paint was clayed, compounded, polished, cleaned and then coated.


No time to post any more pictures but as soon as I can carve out the time I'll share some more from this project.

That dripping wet paint is surely accented by the bling of the wheels

[R4IDER]

Hey mike thx for the response! it does not say on the first post wich tool u used , so im guessing a rotary buffer?

[Mike Phillips]

Forgive me if I missed it, but what coating did you use after the Paint Prep?

Thanks

You didn't miss it. I didn't say.


Anyone that's been reading my posts and articles on detailing discussion forums since 2002 knows I always choose my words very carefully. In fact, the writing style I developed for posting to forums is what I call defensive writing. That means if I can't defect it... I don't post it. Another way to say that is if I post it... I've already made sure whatever it is I'm saying is bulletproof. Kind of some training I obtained as a veteran of the Zaino vs NXT wars of which I'm a veteran.

[Mike Phillips]

Hey mike thx for the response! it does not say on the first post wich tool u used , so im guessing a rotary buffer?

That's a good guess but alas... I did not use a rotary bufer.

[andrew8729]

Man, that came out so wet! Beautiful job Mike.

[Klasse Act]

Mike, there was a Zaino vsn NXT war, kinda like coming to a gun fight w/ a knife, LOL! I've heard of the 6 day war, so that one was like the 6 minute war, LOL!

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