Welcome to the Shine Station

[zckid]

Hello friends!

But before we start, could you guess the color of this car?





A hint



Another one




A better clue, but guess this part of the ride





This is what I had to do a paint correction on.



No beading, no sheeting, no protection, just water clinging on all surfaces and a flake-off while washing the car…. Permanent damage



Whole car washed using 2BM method, MF washmitt, car shampoo and APC mix, and finally dried with MF towels, all available locally


Claying






Ready for inspection



Feeling blessed! The sun was here! Looking for defects was so easy 



Close-up







More…. Too many





The infamous RIDS and Scratches
The side-mirror









Many… many of them….





Textured paint, orange peel, pits and pores, blurriness etc….







More and more




we really know how much you care 
& now we are ready for real fun.



The headlights
The right side before






After








The left side before











The afters

[zckid]

To the most sought after part of the ride… paintwork

Tools n equipment:

Compounding: Optimum hyper compound, carpro denim pads, optimum doublesided wool pad
Polishing: menzerna 203s, LC white pad
Finishing: Menzerna PO85rd, LC black and LC Red HT pads
LSP: Menz Powerlock , wipedown with the softest towel (yellow) I had locally

CarPro pads effective but dangerous too.

Voilà !



close-up





close-up




Compounding after paint leveled




Refined




Further refined





Before






After







Blurriness gone




Look carefully, the permanent damage in focus




50-50






During




After




Friends in need






the side Mirrors










Mirror - Mirror








Glow with sunset




A detail in another detail





The boss inspecting








close-up




the doors







What’s your favorite color?








house on wheels




Mirror house




Water test







Hydrophobic-ity
(These are the last set of pictures, after sun shots and mirror shots)

[zckid]

Saved some sun shots as the sun loves to play with the clouds here




The door sides



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extreme close-up






The roof










When others envy your ride’s shine, it’s BeyondShine.



My appreciation and thanks go to all of the friends who have helped me with their advice, their detailed posts and instructions, their videos and the hands-on experience from which I learned a lot.

Thanks for viewing, your comments and thoughts are most welcome.

Zaid :driver:

[Dr_Pain]

Your detailing assistant is awfully young and small! LOL!!!

That paint was HAMMERED! Great job rescuing it!

[sunday joe]

Tu Veni, Tu Vidi, Tu vici.
Great work. You had it cut out for you.

[zckid]

Tu Veni, Tu Vidi, Tu vici.
Great work. You had it cut out for you.

Your detailing assistant is awfully young and small! LOL!!!

That paint was HAMMERED! Great job rescuing it!

Thanks a lot for your encouraging words most appreciated

and actually the assistant is me that one is the BOSS

[a g thang]

Wow great job and write up!!!!


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[Chris@AutoCleanse]

Beautiful work, picture taking, and documentation. The car came out great.

[BradsDetailing]

Don't let the boss "boss" you around too much. Great work

[HateSwirls]

Fantastic work on a trashed finish

Twice this week I see great results using the Optimum Hyper, I'm like hmmmmm, am I missing out on a great product!

Good thing you had the rotary and a wool pad , that helped save the paint.