Show Your Best 50/50 Picture

[LuxuryMobile]

Thought it would be fun for everyone to post a picture from their personal collection of there favorite 50/50 picture from a paint correction they have done. Doesn't necessarily have to be a half and half picture but one picture that shows corrected paint vs uncorrected paint.

Post the year make model and the machine/products used.

Ill start:

2001 Porsche Carerra
PC 7424
M105/Orange Flat, M205/White Flat

[Dubbin1]

2000 Explorer M105/M205 orange and white pad on a Flex

[tuscarora dave]

Not sure the year maybe 99? Subaru Outback 200,000 miles
Makita rotary with Poorboy's Pro Polish on LC PFW
Makita rotary Poorboy's SSR1 red LC pad

[Shane731]

2001 Honda Accord with 31,xxx miles on it

Meg's M105 with 5.5 inch orange LC CCS pad on G110v2
left side polished, right side untouched

[Dubbin1]

2001 Honda Accord with 31,xxx miles on it

Meg's M105 with 5.5 inch orange LC CCS pad on G110v2
left side polished, right side untouched

It might just be my old eyes but I'm not seeing it.

[Shane731]

It might just be my old eyes but I'm not seeing it.

Let's test your eyesight. How many fingers am I holding up? There, there, no need to get upset.

Here ya' go Dwayne, these are for you:

passenger rear quarter panel before


50/50 of quarter panel after M105. Left side polished, right side untouched.


50/50 closer up


quarter panel after (bumper is untouched at time of picture)

[sullysdetailing]

[SeaJay's]

05 Equinox - This is only after M105 via PC7424 and LC CCS yellow pad.





02 Hyundai Elantra - After just M105 on PC7424 on LC CCS Orange pad.

[Mike Phillips]

Here's one that I did a long time ago that's been in the forum world for going on 9 years now and actually was used on the SwirlX label...

RIDS and Feathersanding

Products Used - (From Memory)
Nikken Finishing Papers
M84 - RB
M83 - RB
M09 - RB/DA
Gold Class Wax - DA



Photos courtesy of Meguiar's Online








Each side of the hood took me around 10 to 12 hours to remove all the RIDS and then polish out and apply the LSP



This one was a group effort at one of the TNOG's I was in charge of at Meguiar's. After the before and after shot I did finished the hood out by doing the "before" side to match the "after side.

1974 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL - Extreme Makeover Round II

Ned brought us his car a couple of years ago and we restored the aftermarket Glasurit Paint job for him, problem was he lost use of his garage to his wife where she needed to store some antique furniture, so exposed to the sun it slowly oxidized over the last 2 years back to where it was when we first worked on it. Now Ned has reclaimed his garage and asked us if we could work our Meguiar's Magic again and since we love a challenge we took on the project. We already restored the rear of the car during our first "Open Garage" even for 2008 here,

Pictures from Meguiar's Open Garage - January 10th, 2008





This was to see if a second polishing could be done and if it would hold up. 3 months later the paint was still holding up so this little test gave us the confidence to do the entire car. We had a great team of experienced people to tackle the challenge... check it out...


Before




We chose to try something different and taped off a diagonal section to show before and after






Here's Paul aka the other pc and Mike aka Mike-in-Orange starting in with the rotary buffer using
some M80 Speed Glaze with a W-8006 foam polishing pad




Jesse aka hemin8r tackles the B-Pillar with the same combo of machine, pad and product. The old single
stage paint reacts very well to the M80 Speed Glaze.


Paul continues to work the paint with the rotary buffer while Mike takes a moment to clean his foam pad by holding a terry cloth towel against the face of the foam pad to pull out some of the oxidized paint and spent product.




Notice how he locks the rotary against his leg using the body and the
handle to form a V against his leg to stabilize the rotary buffer.





This works pretty well when cleaning a lot of dead paint off a pad but you have to very
careful so that you don't get your towel and finger caught into the spinning pad.




After cleaning the face of the foam pad Mike is back to work.




Here's the side-by-side, before & after...



Then it was used on a label...




This was a fun one and I was able to use it for an article on the importance of capturing before and after pictures...

Products Used
M105/W5500/RB - 1500 RPM
M205/W-8000/RB - 1500 RPM
M07/W-8006/DA - 5.0 Speed Setting
NXT/W9207/DA - 4.0 Speed Setting

The power in the after shots is created in the before shots


Before


One half covered and taped-off


Before and after results


After






Here's one coming up...

• Wolfgang TSR
• Wolfgang FG
• Wolfgang DGPS

[rwright]

2001 Chevy Impala
Porter Cable 7424 XP
M105/Cyan 5.5" Hydro Tech Pad