richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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Boy, this car was a challenge! It had hundreds, and I do mean hundreds of small white specs of paint that appear to be overspray, probably road paint. The trouble being compounded by the fact that it's been on the surface of the paint for years. My bag of tricks struggled with this one. The other issue with this car was many, many chips. Some of them were quite large and really detracted from the look of the car. It was booked in for Americoat. Let's see its condtion:
I LOVED these wheels!
He had done a really good job at cleaning and protecting the barrels. I was impressed!
First up was the wheels. They were washed with a demoted wash mitt with Megs Hyper Wash. The barrels were shot with Zep Citrus and cleaned with a Daytona mini brush followed by the wash mitt. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505 and the wells with LATA.
Even though I was not pulling the wheels, I sprayed them with Aqua Bead after cleaning them to give them more protection. I found out later that he had put wheel wax on them. Now they were really protected!!
The car was then hand washed with Megs HW followed by a decontamination wash using IronX paste. I then brought the car in the assess the white overspray. I jumped to my medium gun clay, my blue Riccardo. I did nothing to remove the overspray but any more aggressive and it was giving marring as well as leaving the spots. It was the worse on the roof and the back of the car. I also tried Tarminator with negative results.
I did a 2 stage process to address the paint. First stage was Rupes 21 + TB black wool + M100. That was followed up with Flex 3401 + burg Megs pad + M205 mixed with a bit of Duragloss Squeaky Clean. That was not touching the damned overspray. I had to use M205 + mf with heavy pressure to reduce their appearance. I tried the same with M100 but it would mar. It was the strangest thing: I'd rub the spot away (it looked like it would vanish) and then a minute later it would reappear. I think it was a sanity test...and I was losing!! I really hoped to make them completely disappear, but that was not to be. The end result was that their appearance was vastly minimized, but not eliminated. It had simply been too long that they were on the paint I believe. I also spent probably 2 hours filling chips on the whole car. It was worth it though as they really showed with the colour of the car.
The paint, wheel faces head, tail lights and trim and glass (except windshield) were all coated with Americoat. Here it is all done:
Even though I was disappointed that the spots weren't completely eliminated, the customer was very happy with how the car turned out. Bottom line is that's what's important.
I LOVED these wheels!
He had done a really good job at cleaning and protecting the barrels. I was impressed!
First up was the wheels. They were washed with a demoted wash mitt with Megs Hyper Wash. The barrels were shot with Zep Citrus and cleaned with a Daytona mini brush followed by the wash mitt. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505 and the wells with LATA.
Even though I was not pulling the wheels, I sprayed them with Aqua Bead after cleaning them to give them more protection. I found out later that he had put wheel wax on them. Now they were really protected!!
The car was then hand washed with Megs HW followed by a decontamination wash using IronX paste. I then brought the car in the assess the white overspray. I jumped to my medium gun clay, my blue Riccardo. I did nothing to remove the overspray but any more aggressive and it was giving marring as well as leaving the spots. It was the worse on the roof and the back of the car. I also tried Tarminator with negative results.
I did a 2 stage process to address the paint. First stage was Rupes 21 + TB black wool + M100. That was followed up with Flex 3401 + burg Megs pad + M205 mixed with a bit of Duragloss Squeaky Clean. That was not touching the damned overspray. I had to use M205 + mf with heavy pressure to reduce their appearance. I tried the same with M100 but it would mar. It was the strangest thing: I'd rub the spot away (it looked like it would vanish) and then a minute later it would reappear. I think it was a sanity test...and I was losing!! I really hoped to make them completely disappear, but that was not to be. The end result was that their appearance was vastly minimized, but not eliminated. It had simply been too long that they were on the paint I believe. I also spent probably 2 hours filling chips on the whole car. It was worth it though as they really showed with the colour of the car.
The paint, wheel faces head, tail lights and trim and glass (except windshield) were all coated with Americoat. Here it is all done:
Even though I was disappointed that the spots weren't completely eliminated, the customer was very happy with how the car turned out. Bottom line is that's what's important.
