I have terrible lighting in my garage (just one single bulb) and since I probably won't be able to drive my brand new Corvette for the next couple of months I figured this is a good time to go over the finish and remove any minor scratches that might be on the finish from the assembly, transport and PDI. When I picked up the car on Wednesday I could see a few minor spots that I wanted to correct (when I viewed it under the lights inside the dealer's showroom) but I can't remember where all of them are and have only been able to find and correct a few areas with my poor lighting. I really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on professional type lighting though, but figured there must be some types of lower cost flashlights (under $30 for example) that could be somewhat effective for me.
I'm also of the mindset that I don't want to drive myself crazy and make the paint 100% perfect, as it won't be a show car and I will be driving it a lot. So my main goal is for the paint to be 90% perfect, as I feel that's good enough so that from 10 feet away it will look perfect to most people, but it also helps me keep my sanity. I owned a black Corvette when I first got into paint correction and it was a never ending quest for perfection that was just not achievable for that car considering it was a daily driver even in winter (my new one will never see snow and will rarely see rain, so at least it'll be easier to keep the paint nice, plus it's a bright non metallic red, that also helps)
I'm also of the mindset that I don't want to drive myself crazy and make the paint 100% perfect, as it won't be a show car and I will be driving it a lot. So my main goal is for the paint to be 90% perfect, as I feel that's good enough so that from 10 feet away it will look perfect to most people, but it also helps me keep my sanity. I owned a black Corvette when I first got into paint correction and it was a never ending quest for perfection that was just not achievable for that car considering it was a daily driver even in winter (my new one will never see snow and will rarely see rain, so at least it'll be easier to keep the paint nice, plus it's a bright non metallic red, that also helps)