Remember This?????
This is how I viewed the car a few months ago and today it was booked into be fixed. It had been mopped quite aggressivly with G3 and a wooly bonnet. Some of the marks were quite deep but nothing that me and Eric would not turn around in a day between us.
The car was only really booked into remove the buffer trails, but on closer inspection the car was also pretty well swirled, so it was decided to carry out a two stage polish to remove the swirls and trails and refine to bring back the clarity to the paint.
Swirly.
A few combos were tried out and I settles on 3M yellow pad with Menz 3.02 with a bit of UltraFina for some extra oils. The ExtraFIna yellow top just failed today clumping up in the humidity.
Two sets of polishing with the combo gave us this.
Back Door before.
Again after two polishing passes.
Bonnet Before.
Bonnet after.
While I was getting reagy to start on the other side Eric was refining the finish with the DA and after all the problems with the polishes clumping up we decided to use Lime Prime instead. Due to it's oily make up and slight cut it was ideal for the refining.
Front wing. You can see how the swirls are taking the clarity away from the paint in this shot with no extra lighting.
With 4700k bulb.
Quite deep swirls as well.
After two polishing sets not yet refined leaving me with this.
The rest of the car was polished this way and refined with the Lime Prime.
Leaving the car looking like this.
Just before the customer picked it up. LSP was Opti Seal.
Customer was over the moon with it. So looks like we now have his brothers car to do, his wifes car to do and tint. All in all a good days work.
Took us in man hours about 10 hours between the two of us I (I could have said 30 hours to get more views, but even I can't concentrate that long!!). This was no way a full correction, as I do not think it could be corrected fully. But it certainly shows how you can turn around a battered car into a nice example. Plus in the real world it has seen some use and there are the details I enjoy doing as it is a challenge.
Here is a picture of a Rolls Royce Phantom in the car wash next door last weekend, just thought you would all like to see this.
Thanks for reading and was a great car to work on with a great customer.
Cheers
Steve
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Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek
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