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I had a co-worker of mine bring me his Mercedes C230 to have a 1 step paint correction done on it. He dropped the car off with me on Thursday night and is picking it up today.
This car's paint was extremely hard. The one step I did in my test spot was not up to my standards and really probably only got about 10-15% correction. Which wasn't making me happy as this car was swirl city. So being a friend/co-worker I decided to do a 2 step correction instead of a 1 step. I wasn't going for absolute perfection and honestly I'm glad I wasn't. The paint was very hard to correct. I ended up with about 80-85% correction. There were a lot of RIDS and paint chips that were left alone.
Over all I worked for about 15 hours. I couldn't get the paint to finish down without holograms with my Flex PE14, so I ended up having to finish with my DA. It was a beautiful rainy day on Saturday here so I didn't mind spending it in my garage. Only issue was I had no sun light to work with and the lighting I have in my garage is not very good. So, I found a couple holograms after I pulled it into the sun on Sunday. There aren't a lot but a couple. He will be coming back and having me fix the few that are left. (at no charge since it's my fault)
Nice rainy day....
Equipment Used
Two 5 gallon bucket with grit guards
One 5 gallon bucket without grit guard for wheels/tires.
1500 PSI Pressure Washer (which crapped out on me on Saturday night)
Foam Cannon
Various MF's
Various Brushes
Flex PE14
PC 7424xp
LC CCS Flat pads - yellow, white, red
Masking Tape
Sheep Skin wash mitt
Products Used
DP Xtreme Foam
Dawn
Menz Power Gloss
Menz PO85rd
ONR as clay lube
IPA - diluted to 10%
Griots Fine Clay
DP Krystal Glass Cleaner
Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel
Menz Power Lock
Pinnacle Souveran
Sonax Wheel Cleaner
Chemical Guys GreenClean APC
As the car arrived
Main reason he brought me the car was to get the badge marking removed.
Wheels were cleaned first then the whole car was foamed with a mixture of DP Xtreme Foam and Dawn.
After the foaming I used a two bucket method and washed the whole car, then pulled the car into the garage and clayed. (sorry no pics of this)
After the car was clayed I taped up the hood for my test spot. As you can see this car was swirl city.
50/50 of my test spot after tape was removed. Note this is only after the initial compound.
Couple more 50/50's
Badge Marks removal
And the afters. Just as a note the sun spots appear to be like stars. It seems to be the setting that the camera was on. My gf tried to explain it to me but I don't get the camera thing.
Thanks for reading!
This car's paint was extremely hard. The one step I did in my test spot was not up to my standards and really probably only got about 10-15% correction. Which wasn't making me happy as this car was swirl city. So being a friend/co-worker I decided to do a 2 step correction instead of a 1 step. I wasn't going for absolute perfection and honestly I'm glad I wasn't. The paint was very hard to correct. I ended up with about 80-85% correction. There were a lot of RIDS and paint chips that were left alone.
Over all I worked for about 15 hours. I couldn't get the paint to finish down without holograms with my Flex PE14, so I ended up having to finish with my DA. It was a beautiful rainy day on Saturday here so I didn't mind spending it in my garage. Only issue was I had no sun light to work with and the lighting I have in my garage is not very good. So, I found a couple holograms after I pulled it into the sun on Sunday. There aren't a lot but a couple. He will be coming back and having me fix the few that are left. (at no charge since it's my fault)
Nice rainy day....
Equipment Used
Two 5 gallon bucket with grit guards
One 5 gallon bucket without grit guard for wheels/tires.
1500 PSI Pressure Washer (which crapped out on me on Saturday night)
Foam Cannon
Various MF's
Various Brushes
Flex PE14
PC 7424xp
LC CCS Flat pads - yellow, white, red
Masking Tape
Sheep Skin wash mitt
Products Used
DP Xtreme Foam
Dawn
Menz Power Gloss
Menz PO85rd
ONR as clay lube
IPA - diluted to 10%
Griots Fine Clay
DP Krystal Glass Cleaner
Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel
Menz Power Lock
Pinnacle Souveran
Sonax Wheel Cleaner
Chemical Guys GreenClean APC
As the car arrived
Main reason he brought me the car was to get the badge marking removed.
Wheels were cleaned first then the whole car was foamed with a mixture of DP Xtreme Foam and Dawn.
After the foaming I used a two bucket method and washed the whole car, then pulled the car into the garage and clayed. (sorry no pics of this)
After the car was clayed I taped up the hood for my test spot. As you can see this car was swirl city.
50/50 of my test spot after tape was removed. Note this is only after the initial compound.
Couple more 50/50's
Badge Marks removal
And the afters. Just as a note the sun spots appear to be like stars. It seems to be the setting that the camera was on. My gf tried to explain it to me but I don't get the camera thing.
Thanks for reading!
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