RaskyR1
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This job was posted on another forum by Justin and I thought I'd share it here too. 
Rasky and I teamed up again for this job, a Mini Cooper S that was in decent shape but definitely in need of some help. It was a basic 1 step/protect but we wound up doing some extra decon and polishing steps to make it really pop and send it out the door in a manner that was satisfactory to both of us. Once again, like with all light color metallics we had some issues getting the paint condition to translate to pictures well (we tried 2 different DSLRs, 3 different lenses, multiple exposure settings, etc). The silver/gray metallic paint was very hard, very contaminated and good at hiding defects, which made having 2 sets of eyes a very good thing. The process was:
- Wash w/ONR
- Tar-x and Iron-x on various body panels
- Clayed with Blackfire Poly Clay and Griots Speedshine as lube
- D300 on a MF Cutting disc via GGDA
- Blackfire to seal, Opti-Guard on plastic trim
- Wheels got everything under the sun (more later in write up)
- Stainless Trim cleaned w/Optimum Metal Polish
- Chrome Cleaned with Mothers Chrome Polish (love this stuff)
- Tires dressed w/Megs Hyper @ 4:1
- Interior vacuumed and wiped down with Megs QID
On to the pics. Like I said, we had a very hard time capturing the condition before, but the trim panels and stripes here give a pretty good indication what we were faced with.
Crop of paint attempting to show swirls.
Stainless trim before:
After Optimum Metal
Iron X Working away on the white roof:
Tar-X having it's way with the lower panels:
Thrashed tips before:
After a lot of elbow grease, Optimum Metal and 0000 steel wool:
All chrome polished with Mothers Chrome Polish
The wheels had the worst brake dust contamination/build up/etching I've ever seen. This is after a Round with Sonax Full Effect (barely touched it)
Meg's Wheel Brightener helped considerably:
Decided to see if straight Iron-X would even do anything after all that, and the answer was yes it would:
Decontamination complete (or as complete as it was going to get); now time to do some correction............
Rasky and I teamed up again for this job, a Mini Cooper S that was in decent shape but definitely in need of some help. It was a basic 1 step/protect but we wound up doing some extra decon and polishing steps to make it really pop and send it out the door in a manner that was satisfactory to both of us. Once again, like with all light color metallics we had some issues getting the paint condition to translate to pictures well (we tried 2 different DSLRs, 3 different lenses, multiple exposure settings, etc). The silver/gray metallic paint was very hard, very contaminated and good at hiding defects, which made having 2 sets of eyes a very good thing. The process was:
- Wash w/ONR
- Tar-x and Iron-x on various body panels
- Clayed with Blackfire Poly Clay and Griots Speedshine as lube
- D300 on a MF Cutting disc via GGDA
- Blackfire to seal, Opti-Guard on plastic trim
- Wheels got everything under the sun (more later in write up)
- Stainless Trim cleaned w/Optimum Metal Polish
- Chrome Cleaned with Mothers Chrome Polish (love this stuff)
- Tires dressed w/Megs Hyper @ 4:1
- Interior vacuumed and wiped down with Megs QID
On to the pics. Like I said, we had a very hard time capturing the condition before, but the trim panels and stripes here give a pretty good indication what we were faced with.
Crop of paint attempting to show swirls.
Stainless trim before:
After Optimum Metal
Iron X Working away on the white roof:
Tar-X having it's way with the lower panels:
Thrashed tips before:
After a lot of elbow grease, Optimum Metal and 0000 steel wool:
All chrome polished with Mothers Chrome Polish
The wheels had the worst brake dust contamination/build up/etching I've ever seen. This is after a Round with Sonax Full Effect (barely touched it)
Meg's Wheel Brightener helped considerably:
Decided to see if straight Iron-X would even do anything after all that, and the answer was yes it would:
Decontamination complete (or as complete as it was going to get); now time to do some correction............
rops:
