richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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This customer was a referral and agreed to have Feynlab Ceramic applied to the paint and the wheels removed and coated with Feynlab Wheel & Caliper coating. There were a few nasty chips and one long scrape that needed repairing too.
Here it is as it arrived:
First up was the wheels. The barrels were cleaned with Zep Citrus and a Daytona brush along with HD Pink soap. The faces got the same. The wells were cleaned with LATA and the tires with Zep 505. The car was washed with HD Pink soap. It was then brought inside and clayed with Riccardo blue and Prime as lube. Here is the paint ready for correction in its true state:
Now onto the wheels. They had been refinished recently so they weren`t very dirty. A quick ONR cleaning followed by DG squeaky clean did the trick on the barrels. They were coated with DLux. The calipers and faces were coated with Feynlab`s Wheel & Caliper coating. The plastic front wells were also coated with DLux. Here`s one in progress:
The paint was compounded with M100. TLC was not aggressive enough for this car. I had also tried my Amerirocks too and it also was not aggressive enough. In some areas the paint was thin so I didn't want to be very aggressive. This was to be a balancing act between correction and paint integrity. The M100 was used with my 3401 and a 3D black wool pad. That was followed by Reflect + yellow B/S and the last step was M205 + white LC pad.
For coating, Ceramic was used. I had read about using Ceramic Lite as a removal aid. I tried it and loved it. It gave a much slicker feel than Ceramic alone and I swear the gloss was better too. Even though the cost of materials is higher doing it this way, CL is not an expensive product and for me, the benefits far outweighed the cost of using it. This will be my method from now on. The headlights and tail lights were also polished and coated as were the exhaust tips.
Here she is with some inside shots and out:
Thanks kindly for looking. This took 21 hours and change.
Here it is as it arrived:
First up was the wheels. The barrels were cleaned with Zep Citrus and a Daytona brush along with HD Pink soap. The faces got the same. The wells were cleaned with LATA and the tires with Zep 505. The car was washed with HD Pink soap. It was then brought inside and clayed with Riccardo blue and Prime as lube. Here is the paint ready for correction in its true state:
Now onto the wheels. They had been refinished recently so they weren`t very dirty. A quick ONR cleaning followed by DG squeaky clean did the trick on the barrels. They were coated with DLux. The calipers and faces were coated with Feynlab`s Wheel & Caliper coating. The plastic front wells were also coated with DLux. Here`s one in progress:
The paint was compounded with M100. TLC was not aggressive enough for this car. I had also tried my Amerirocks too and it also was not aggressive enough. In some areas the paint was thin so I didn't want to be very aggressive. This was to be a balancing act between correction and paint integrity. The M100 was used with my 3401 and a 3D black wool pad. That was followed by Reflect + yellow B/S and the last step was M205 + white LC pad.
For coating, Ceramic was used. I had read about using Ceramic Lite as a removal aid. I tried it and loved it. It gave a much slicker feel than Ceramic alone and I swear the gloss was better too. Even though the cost of materials is higher doing it this way, CL is not an expensive product and for me, the benefits far outweighed the cost of using it. This will be my method from now on. The headlights and tail lights were also polished and coated as were the exhaust tips.
Here she is with some inside shots and out:
Thanks kindly for looking. This took 21 hours and change.
