2000 Mazda Millenia

[coupe]

2000 Mazda Millenia Millennium

This car was probably one of the worste ive delt with yet. The previous owner must have washed the car with a scratch pad or steel wool, it’s the only thing I can think of that may have caused this kind of damage. It’s a shame, IMO it’s a beautiful color with tons of flake, the body lines are sexy and has real clean look to it.
After doing a test spot for the owner it was realized that most of the panels on the car needed to be wetsanded and buffed out. The owner bought this car as a winter beater and did not want to pay for wet sanding. So we came to an agreement. Only 2 compounding and polishing steps and what does not come out he will live with. Kinda upset me cuase I really wanted to use my wool pads.
Process
Washed with Optimum carwash in foam gun, only 1 bucket, no grit guard, old mitt, no way was I gonna make this paint any worse anyways.
Clay- claymagic blue
Makitta rotary
Orange edge2K pad with optimum compound at 1800rpm’s
Blue edge2K pad with optimum polish at 1000rpm’s
Loung Hual polish/sealant (AIO)
Duragloss aquawax

Before I even touched it:

Foamed down with optimum, this is after 5 minutes of dwelling time:

This is ONLY an 18”x18” section, the whole car was this bad!

 

[coupe]

This is after 1 pass of the compounding stage:

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

 

[coupe]

All afters:

Just for fun, here are my 2 pigs, ham and bacon:

 

[Dust2Glory]

that's just wrong: Ham & Bacon great work on th car

 

[pirex]

Very nice work The car came out great. hahaha, ham and bacon! lol. Poor pigs

 

[Nica]

Very nice detail there, love the 50/50 pictures. Really show's the difference you are making. Great and I mean great job there you sure turned that vehicle around oh and I agree with you very nice vehicle and a very lovely colour.

As for ham and bacon that's just halerious hahahahahahaha.

Thank you for sharing....um...a...mmmm....never mind.

 

[Gary Sword]

Very nice job and pigs. I never had a pig but I here they make good pets.

 

[klumzypinoy]

Nice job! The 50/50 shot of the compounding looks great I love looking at those pictures. Cool pigs! What a choice of names I wonder how they would react if they knew what their names meant.

 

[coupe]

I only make threads with befores, afters and half and half shots. I cant stand threads that do not have these and only have after shots, i ussually skip reading those threads completely.

As for the pigs, they go to the butcher once they hit 200 pounds.

 

[CalgaryDetail]

great turn around. It looked like the car needed some majr work. Very nie work

 

[pasht]

My previous car was a 1998 Mazda 626 in this color... if I knew it could look that good I wouldn't have traded it in!
Fantastic job!

 

[richy]

Great job..I wonder if you had done a section the way you wanted and showed it to him, if he would have let you do it completely? By the way, I heard the pigs talking..they know your plan and are now on a diet!!!!!

 

[dannythekid]

I like the Millenias a lot. It's a shame that is in such poor shape. Good work nonetheless.

 

[alban61]

Great job on that car! It turned out great despite the fact that you weren't able to wetsand. That's the power of the rotary, and your know-how.

 

[Tonya]

that's just wrong: Ham & Bacon great work on th car

:iagree:
They are cute!
Great job!