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Maestro Sam

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Paint correction on this very soft lexus. Job took around 30 hours with compounding, polishing, and jeweling. The paint was super soft and was marring the paint with every wipe down. Had to use essence with distilled water to polish the paint.

Compound FG 400 - Meguires MF disc
Polishing, Menz super finish plus
Jeweling Carpro essence
Protection - Gloss Coat

Tools
Rupes 15
Mini
Nano

Total time 30+

This lexus came initially came in for a 1 step polish to remove light swirl marks. After inspecting the vehicle after a thorough decon step and car wash, the car was in pretty bad shape. The paint tends to hide swirls and scratches really well, but shows hazing and marring in direct sunlight. The correction took longer than expected since even my softest microfiber towels was marring the paint with each wipe down after polishing. Decided to use essence diluted with distill water. Using this combination allowed no marring when wipeing off the polish, allowing me to jump on to using Gloss Coat. Here are some pictures! Very difficult to capture scratches. EnjoyView attachment 56813View attachment 56814View attachment 56815View attachment 56815View attachment 56816View attachment 56817View attachment 56817View attachment 56818View attachment 56819View attachment 56819View attachment 56820View attachment 56821View attachment 56822View attachment 56823View attachment 56824
 
It was supposed to be a 1 step and turned into a 30+ hr. marathon? I'm surprised you have the energy and commend your patience to even be here to post this. I'm not going to ask about compensation for the job, but it seems like a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between a 1 step and 30+ hours on a detail. I hope you did ok, Maestro.
 
Haha don't worry! It all worked out man in the $1000's =). I asked him how does his paint look and like all customers, they say its in good condition. Client ask me if it needed more than a polish, then he would trust my judgment. I took longer than expected since the initial polish was marring the paint so moved on with Essence! It was a big gap for sure, but well worth it. Always learning when correcting.
 
That's why they call you the Maestro... Good stuff!
 
Eldorado2k said:
That's why they call you the Maestro... Good stuff!
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Thanks man! Still learning a lot with each correction. I want to post better pictures up on this site but I don't think I know how to upload right haha. Thanks for the kind words and have more to come!
 
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