My first paint correction.

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Did my first full paint correction today. The paint was near on for shagged. So many swirls, so much hazing and marring. There was a really thick coat of wax on it covering up heaps of crap. Once I stripped back the wax and clayed it (I rubbished 2 clay bars on this thing), I knew what I was working with.

So basically what I did was:

Wash with dish soap to remove the wax, rinse.
Foam gun, rinse.
Wash, rinse, dry.
Clay bar, dry.
WGTSR 3.0 + blue light cutting pad for most surfaces (roof and bonnet needed M. Ultimate Compound)
WGFG 3.0 with Orange polishing pad.
WGDGPS applied by hand.

Tomorrow I'm going to just hit it with some DG Auquawax and she should be sweet.

Total of 9 hours spent today. I'm completely rooted. I lunched 2 of my blue (cyan) cutting pads. They just disintegrated for whatever reason. Realised I'm going to need some stronger cutting pads too because the WGTSR and blue pad didn't even touch the marring on the roof, and that was with my Concours 900 on speed setting 6 and using basically all the force I could with slow arm movement.

Anyway, enough jibber jabber, time for some pics...

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After...

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Thanks for looking and reading!

Any feedback is welcome.
 
Thanks for all the replies guys!

So to stop lunching my pads in future, should I buy a couple stronger cutting pads to use with the M. Ultimate Compound? I really liked it as a product. It dusted up much less than the WGTSR, and had more cut. When I took the shot pads off my polisher, the backing plate was very hot, which I don't think helped. It would be nice to be able to apply less pressure and get the same amount of cut.
 
Disciple said:
should I buy a couple stronger cutting pads to use with the M. Ultimate Compound? I really liked it as a product. It dusted up much less than the WGTSR, and had more cut.
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Disciple said:
WGTSR 3.0 + blue light cutting pad for most surfaces (roof and bonnet needed M. Ultimate Compound)

WGFG 3.0 with Orange polishing pad.
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Are you talking about the 5.5" Hydro-Tech pads?


Or something else?



:)
 
Went out and hit the whole car with some DG Aquawax this morning, Aquawax on the wheels too, dressed the tyres and cleaned the glass.

Some final pics...

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The owner was absolutely ecstatic when I dropped it off this morning. :)
 
Looks awesome.

Yea, it's a bummer to destroy pads. I fried some orange CCS pads earlier this summer. I used too much product and it they overheated and melted the center of the velcro backing.
 
Cheers guys! I learnt (learned for Americans :P) so much. I learnt I need a couple stronger cutting pads, a couple more light cutting pads, and a few more high quality buffing MF cloths. I also learnt it takes a lot of force, effort and most of all patience, to do a whole car, and do it properly. But most importantly I learnt that I really enjoy doing this, and I'm actually good at it, and have a good eye for it.

I'm doing my mates brand new Hyundai Veloster Turbo (white) next Monday, so I'll get some more pics. Hopefully it's in pretty good condition and I can save my poor arms lol!.
 
Great Job! Bummer on the pads though, live n learn is sometimes the best teacher. Can't wait to see the next one.
 
You didn't restore the paint you resurrected it! :props:

The before close up photos really tell the tale of actually how neglected and damaged the finish was in.

You had a great plan of how and what to use. The test spot was perfect in size to give you confidence in how to proceed. Your execution was outstanding and the results are even more impressive.....:dblthumb2:
 
BobbyG said:
You didn't restore the paint you resurrected it! :props:

The before close up photos really tell the tale of actually how neglected and damaged the finish was in.

You had a great plan of how and what to use. The test spot was perfect in size to give you confidence in how to proceed. Your execution was outstanding and the results are even more impressive.....:dblthumb2:
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Thanks a lot for the kind words, Bobby. The pictures don't really show how bad the paint was on the roof. After the WGTSR there were still so many old water spot marks and weird kinda hazing. It wasn't until I really got into it with the M. Ultimate Compound that it came up how I wanted it to.

I really appreciate the positive comments. Im the MAN
 
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