beamerstrumpet
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3rd Time is a charm!
I have decided to use word to type anything that may be long due to having lost the first two posts I was trying to do and add pics to. I have now decided to use MS Word to do the typing in so I have a backup. Needless to say, not all the fun quotes and story will be in this edition! (too bad it was not a bad tale LOLOL)
I posted Fri night (7/12/13) that my blue Camry had gotten yellow DOT paint on it from the comm. service teens in the school parking lot. At least I think I did. I also posted that I went shopping Sat for some products, most of which being the HF DA and due to the timing of needing stuff, I did buy the HF pads and had to use the Crappy backing plate. The paint spots were not super bad, but enough to take a couple hours to do without messing the paint up. (We are going to submit them to the school for re-imbursement, total is $100.00 I am thinking that’s very cheap for what I have done so far) Thanks to the search button I was able to find the older topic on DOT yellow paint. I ended up using Acetone and a sharp plastic scraper. Even with Acetone soaked on some of the spots they needed a bit of help coming off. The spots also left some light marring on the paint and of course the Acetone pulled out all the protection from the paint. To start here is the car and the paint spots:In front of left rear tire
The rest is self explainatory (p.s. pre wash pics also)
Neighbors house reflection
Thats most of it, there were a few spots on the hood, but the wife Had picked them of with her fingernail (errrr yep)
Sunday started the work. Here is my work area; I have had the tarps put up for a few weeks just to act as sun shade. Also a shot of my modest Detail kit, which I am quickly outgrowing! It is tight and for this job I parked the right side of the car closer to the privacy fence so I had room to sit and be under the edge of the tarps.
My backyard area has a VW Bug waiting to get a new engine, So its the driveway for now. My humble kit:
The DA fits in the top box and I have a seperate plastic bin for the MF's. Yep I see a HF $35.00 cart on the horizon, THough I was thinking of modifing my kids old Radio Flyer wagon.
I taped off the hood because by this point it had started to rain, and the water was driping off the tarp still close to the car. I did not feel like having water running down my back. I gave the whole car a foaming and wash, then clayed the hood and grill. With everything being as it was, I decided to forgo the cutting pad and went right to polishing pad and polish. It did heat up on me and I noticed some pad flakes, after my prime and I am thinking I may have not used enough product, but I used a bit more and some Mothers detail spray, kept my speed at 4 and pushed on not wanting to kill the only blue pad I had.
R side polished first (cool fence line on left)
Tried to get a befor and after shot but I think the dark tarp was preventing a good picture.
The spots you see on the left are paint chips. this is after wax with black pad. I wish I could have gotten better shots and had some better lighting but as you can see this was what it looked like at the end.
Time started, 1230pm, a few interruptions by the family and for food, finished at 730 pm and did my clean up. Will do better next goround. Is there a think as too bright for pics? I also tried a old school 1000 watt NDI inspection blacklight to look for defects but it did not seem to work. I see a big learning curve ahead.
Thanks for reading.
I have decided to use word to type anything that may be long due to having lost the first two posts I was trying to do and add pics to. I have now decided to use MS Word to do the typing in so I have a backup. Needless to say, not all the fun quotes and story will be in this edition! (too bad it was not a bad tale LOLOL)
I posted Fri night (7/12/13) that my blue Camry had gotten yellow DOT paint on it from the comm. service teens in the school parking lot. At least I think I did. I also posted that I went shopping Sat for some products, most of which being the HF DA and due to the timing of needing stuff, I did buy the HF pads and had to use the Crappy backing plate. The paint spots were not super bad, but enough to take a couple hours to do without messing the paint up. (We are going to submit them to the school for re-imbursement, total is $100.00 I am thinking that’s very cheap for what I have done so far) Thanks to the search button I was able to find the older topic on DOT yellow paint. I ended up using Acetone and a sharp plastic scraper. Even with Acetone soaked on some of the spots they needed a bit of help coming off. The spots also left some light marring on the paint and of course the Acetone pulled out all the protection from the paint. To start here is the car and the paint spots:In front of left rear tire
The rest is self explainatory (p.s. pre wash pics also)
Neighbors house reflection
Thats most of it, there were a few spots on the hood, but the wife Had picked them of with her fingernail (errrr yep)
Sunday started the work. Here is my work area; I have had the tarps put up for a few weeks just to act as sun shade. Also a shot of my modest Detail kit, which I am quickly outgrowing! It is tight and for this job I parked the right side of the car closer to the privacy fence so I had room to sit and be under the edge of the tarps.
My backyard area has a VW Bug waiting to get a new engine, So its the driveway for now. My humble kit:
The DA fits in the top box and I have a seperate plastic bin for the MF's. Yep I see a HF $35.00 cart on the horizon, THough I was thinking of modifing my kids old Radio Flyer wagon.
I taped off the hood because by this point it had started to rain, and the water was driping off the tarp still close to the car. I did not feel like having water running down my back. I gave the whole car a foaming and wash, then clayed the hood and grill. With everything being as it was, I decided to forgo the cutting pad and went right to polishing pad and polish. It did heat up on me and I noticed some pad flakes, after my prime and I am thinking I may have not used enough product, but I used a bit more and some Mothers detail spray, kept my speed at 4 and pushed on not wanting to kill the only blue pad I had.
R side polished first (cool fence line on left)
Tried to get a befor and after shot but I think the dark tarp was preventing a good picture.
The spots you see on the left are paint chips. this is after wax with black pad. I wish I could have gotten better shots and had some better lighting but as you can see this was what it looked like at the end.
Time started, 1230pm, a few interruptions by the family and for food, finished at 730 pm and did my clean up. Will do better next goround. Is there a think as too bright for pics? I also tried a old school 1000 watt NDI inspection blacklight to look for defects but it did not seem to work. I see a big learning curve ahead.
Thanks for reading.
