Recently, I was contacted by a friend of a previous customer, and set up an initial consultation. His car is a 2013 Roush Mustang with almost every option available, and it is a weekend toy/ show car. It never sees rain, and only has 929.1 miles on it, so it wasn't TOO bad.
His main concerns are the swirls, which it had plenty of. We both decided that a 1 step correct/ protect would be best, as he plans on coming back in the fall for CQuartz/ EXO coating, and I will be doing a full correction on the whole car at that point, so we didn't feel the need to take extra clear off right now, when I would be doing it again in a few months.
The paint was a medium hardness, so finding a pad/ AIO combo that cut well enough, and left a good enough finish was a bit tough, but I ended up using Nanoskin Formula 67 with an Orange LC Flat pad on my PC7424XP. This combo worked well, and also leaves a nice wax protection behind.
This is the car upon arrival. It was pretty clean, and only had 1 scratch on the entire car, and that was on the back bumper.
First things first, I began soaking the wheels in Sonax FE to get the caked on brake dust out, which it did with ease.
Once I washed and dried the whole car using Nanoskin Green Apple Bubble Bath, and a Stanley Blow/ Vac, I was left with a smooth, but swirled finish. I did a plastic bag test, and found literally ZERO contamination on the whole car, which wasn't surprising due to the low mileage and use of the car.
Once I was done testing for contamination, I taped off the car, and began doing a test spot. This was the 50/50 after Formula 67 on an orange pad.
After I found a combo that worked for me, I did the whole car, then polished the exhaust using Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish( my go to polish for just about any metal), and cleaned the engine bay with steam.
Here are the finished results.
Each Roush Stage 3 Mustang gets a plaque under the hood with the engraved signature of the engine builder. I thought that was pretty cool.
One thing I noticed when it was in the garage was that the trunk center panel appeared to have some sort of PPF on it, which gave it a rainbow effect. Does anyone have any experience with this? Can I compound/ polish this? I couldn't see any edges or seams on it, so I'm not really sure what it is.
And a final shot of the happy owner driving off.
I hope you all enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed beautifying this monster.
Eric
His main concerns are the swirls, which it had plenty of. We both decided that a 1 step correct/ protect would be best, as he plans on coming back in the fall for CQuartz/ EXO coating, and I will be doing a full correction on the whole car at that point, so we didn't feel the need to take extra clear off right now, when I would be doing it again in a few months.
The paint was a medium hardness, so finding a pad/ AIO combo that cut well enough, and left a good enough finish was a bit tough, but I ended up using Nanoskin Formula 67 with an Orange LC Flat pad on my PC7424XP. This combo worked well, and also leaves a nice wax protection behind.
This is the car upon arrival. It was pretty clean, and only had 1 scratch on the entire car, and that was on the back bumper.
First things first, I began soaking the wheels in Sonax FE to get the caked on brake dust out, which it did with ease.
Once I washed and dried the whole car using Nanoskin Green Apple Bubble Bath, and a Stanley Blow/ Vac, I was left with a smooth, but swirled finish. I did a plastic bag test, and found literally ZERO contamination on the whole car, which wasn't surprising due to the low mileage and use of the car.
Once I was done testing for contamination, I taped off the car, and began doing a test spot. This was the 50/50 after Formula 67 on an orange pad.
After I found a combo that worked for me, I did the whole car, then polished the exhaust using Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish( my go to polish for just about any metal), and cleaned the engine bay with steam.
Here are the finished results.
Each Roush Stage 3 Mustang gets a plaque under the hood with the engraved signature of the engine builder. I thought that was pretty cool.
One thing I noticed when it was in the garage was that the trunk center panel appeared to have some sort of PPF on it, which gave it a rainbow effect. Does anyone have any experience with this? Can I compound/ polish this? I couldn't see any edges or seams on it, so I'm not really sure what it is.
And a final shot of the happy owner driving off.
I hope you all enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed beautifying this monster.
Eric
