Not really a show and shine:
But to just say that silver is really hard to make it pop.
Okay pictures on silver paint -- are you kidding me I did not realize how hard that was so I gave up, not really I took 160 shots. Hell seeing swirls with my swirl light was almost impossible. I had to be at the right position in my garage to see this stuff with my ceiling lights.
I could not get the shots I was attempting to correct. So my wife took the car to a local car wash and this thing came back with swirls all over the car. Actually scratches. I think a micro fiber towel picked up a stone or something.
Anyway,
1. wash
2. clay
3. wash
4. 105 purple/yellow/orange pads
5. IPA
6. 205 orange/white pads
7. IPA
8. Blackfire Wet Diamond
I ran out of time and will have to wax next weekend
105 mirror shot: Check out the silver ZO6 in the reflection. Yeah baby.
205 mirror shot:
Blackfire Wet Diamond/Megs Wheel Brightener on tires:
Blackfire Wet Diamond hood shot:
And after 160 shots looking for how to show the results of my hard labor this is what I got when I was ready to say screw it at sunset. Damn, silver is just hard to show results!
Blackfire Wet Diamond trunk shot:
So this is my first attempt at paint correction after testing on my truck last week. I will go back to the truck and test some more and go and lay down a detail on my 2010 ZO6.
Oh that yellow 4 inch LC pad worked wonders. It did a terrific job on the scratches. Unfortunately like I said my picture taking skills suck.
But to just say that silver is really hard to make it pop.
Okay pictures on silver paint -- are you kidding me I did not realize how hard that was so I gave up, not really I took 160 shots. Hell seeing swirls with my swirl light was almost impossible. I had to be at the right position in my garage to see this stuff with my ceiling lights.
I could not get the shots I was attempting to correct. So my wife took the car to a local car wash and this thing came back with swirls all over the car. Actually scratches. I think a micro fiber towel picked up a stone or something.
Anyway,
1. wash
2. clay
3. wash
4. 105 purple/yellow/orange pads
5. IPA
6. 205 orange/white pads
7. IPA
8. Blackfire Wet Diamond
I ran out of time and will have to wax next weekend
105 mirror shot: Check out the silver ZO6 in the reflection. Yeah baby.
205 mirror shot:
Blackfire Wet Diamond/Megs Wheel Brightener on tires:
Blackfire Wet Diamond hood shot:
And after 160 shots looking for how to show the results of my hard labor this is what I got when I was ready to say screw it at sunset. Damn, silver is just hard to show results!
Blackfire Wet Diamond trunk shot:
So this is my first attempt at paint correction after testing on my truck last week. I will go back to the truck and test some more and go and lay down a detail on my 2010 ZO6.
Oh that yellow 4 inch LC pad worked wonders. It did a terrific job on the scratches. Unfortunately like I said my picture taking skills suck.
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Silver definitely can pop, but you need to get it into the sunlight to show it off. That is when the body lines glow and the flake jumps out at you with the right products. I'm sure if it wasn't overcast (looks like a lot of cloud diffused ligth) and sunset time that you would have been able to show off some great work.