richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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Some of you may remember this car. I bought it new in 2004. I loved it!! I had it 5.5 years and then my next door neighbour bought it. He's great at maintaining his vehicles, and I've done it for him 3 years ago. It was now (over)due again.
Here it is as it arrived:
Looked good from far...but you know how that saying goes...and 2 bird bombs attacking the surface:
There were definitely some issues to take care of this time around:
I wasn't able to remove this scratch last time...I'd get another shot at it anyway:
He had scraped the passenger door in his storage unit and took it to a PDR guy to fix the dents. The jackass volunteered to fix the paint transfer for him. This is what he left:
PDR guy needs to stick to doing PDR!!!
First up was wheels, barrels, tires and wells.
Barrels got cleaned with Tarminator.
Wheel faces and barrels then got cleaned with Zep Citrus and Megs HW.
Tires were cleaned twice with Zep 505.
The wells were cleaned with LATA.
It was then washed with Megs HW followed by a decontamination wash of IronX paste. It was then blown off with my Master Blaster and checked for true paint condition. This is what I was seeing:
This was a monster chip, but there were quite a few that needed attending to:
A big scrape along the edge of the door:
There were several bird bomb etching marks:
Hood swirls:
I don't remember the paint on this thing being so difficult, but it took a bit to figure out what would work best. I ended up going with my TB black wool, 3401 and then a 2-1 mix of M101 to M100. That gave me good correction, but also finished down well too. That was followed by M205 + 3401 + Americana black finishing pad. Here is a reflection shot of the driver's door after that combination:
The whole car was done that way. I hand polished the wheels with M205 and a microfiber. It was then given a double coat of CQuartz (original). The trim was done with DLux. The tires shot with Opti Bond with my air gun. Here are some inside shots at 1 am:
SHAMELESS PLUG, LOL...
It ended up being only partly cloudy, so I got some good outside shots too:
Oh, I almost forgot. I hand polished the exhaust tips too and coated them with DLux:
Here's the PDR screw up after I was done with it:
Monster chip filled and coated:
Well, I don't think it looks 12 years old anymore, after my 21 hours of work. Comments always appreciated.
Here it is as it arrived:
Looked good from far...but you know how that saying goes...and 2 bird bombs attacking the surface:
There were definitely some issues to take care of this time around:
I wasn't able to remove this scratch last time...I'd get another shot at it anyway:
He had scraped the passenger door in his storage unit and took it to a PDR guy to fix the dents. The jackass volunteered to fix the paint transfer for him. This is what he left:
PDR guy needs to stick to doing PDR!!!
First up was wheels, barrels, tires and wells.
Barrels got cleaned with Tarminator.
Wheel faces and barrels then got cleaned with Zep Citrus and Megs HW.
Tires were cleaned twice with Zep 505.
The wells were cleaned with LATA.
It was then washed with Megs HW followed by a decontamination wash of IronX paste. It was then blown off with my Master Blaster and checked for true paint condition. This is what I was seeing:
This was a monster chip, but there were quite a few that needed attending to:
A big scrape along the edge of the door:
There were several bird bomb etching marks:
Hood swirls:
I don't remember the paint on this thing being so difficult, but it took a bit to figure out what would work best. I ended up going with my TB black wool, 3401 and then a 2-1 mix of M101 to M100. That gave me good correction, but also finished down well too. That was followed by M205 + 3401 + Americana black finishing pad. Here is a reflection shot of the driver's door after that combination:
The whole car was done that way. I hand polished the wheels with M205 and a microfiber. It was then given a double coat of CQuartz (original). The trim was done with DLux. The tires shot with Opti Bond with my air gun. Here are some inside shots at 1 am:
SHAMELESS PLUG, LOL...
It ended up being only partly cloudy, so I got some good outside shots too:
Oh, I almost forgot. I hand polished the exhaust tips too and coated them with DLux:
Here's the PDR screw up after I was done with it:
Monster chip filled and coated:
Well, I don't think it looks 12 years old anymore, after my 21 hours of work. Comments always appreciated.
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