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Good job there. I'll be doing the exact same car and color combo in the coming week. Glad to see how nice they turn out. Always loved the IS-F and you made it even better.
Pearl White Lexus IS F - Detailed by Lawrence
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Thank you. Good luck with it and I hope you will post up your work - I am keen to see how it turns out. They really are awesome vehicles. The hood is rather large though - you have been warned
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Thank you
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What a GREAT job on a Pearl White car, well done, pics are excellent. unfortunately I haven't an ISF but do have the same colour and it has never been machine polished from new and still without swirls. I won't let the Lexus dealership touch the car with their complimentary FREE wash on service.
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I have the same problem with these and am thinking of peeling them off, how did you address these? I know they are scuff protectors and you can get replacements at some huge costs from Lexus but I think I will be able to maintain the paint properly without them.
The pearl white really is beautiful. It takes on different hues from different angles.
Did you do anything in particular to remove any existing protection before using Iron Out? I'm planning to use it for the first time and don't know if I should try to strip away any remnants of 476s and BFCS from this fall.
Did you do anything in particular to remove any existing protection before using Iron Out? I'm planning to use it for the first time and don't know if I should try to strip away any remnants of 476s and BFCS from this fall.
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Thank you. I can understand your reluctance to let the dealership touch the car - it is so sad to think about how little your car is treated with the respect you show it, by other people.
I literally just cleaned and clayed - nothing fancy.
Thank you
To my mind, this is a bit of a catch 22... if you wanted to 'strip' any existing LSP, then IMO you will need more than some sort of wash. In other words, to know for sure it was gone, you would need to either clay or polish it off.
I refuse to polish if the car has not been decontaminated, as there is a risk of dragging the contaminants across the paint, leading to swirls or deep RIDS. So that is not an option.
Claying the car before using an iron remover negates most of the benefit of using the iron remover in the first place. Part of why I prefer to use a chemical to dissolve the iron contaminants is because I do not want to drag such hard particles across the paint, and do not want to load my clay bar up with the unnecessarily....
Do I have a gut feeling that the iron remover would be able to get to ALL of the iron contamination if there was no sealant on the car, better than if there was - yes I do.
But the trick is how do you remove the sealant without first claying or polishing.
:dunno:
So my usual 'process' is
Wash to remove non-embedded/bonded contaminants
De-Tar first as the tar spots are usually bigger than the iron spots
De-Iron to get the hard stuff off/out without touching
Clay of whatever is left
Polish as needed
LSP
Sure I may be losing out on 'some' of the potential benefit of the iron remover, but I still see a lot of benefit in using it where I do in the process.
It reduces the risk of marring and extends the life of my clay.