atomicbadgerman
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- Dec 11, 2013
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Took an '02 LeSabre on trade a few weeks ago. Being at the beach, we have sand and pine trees. I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with what a PITA pine sap can be, but this one was no joke. Interior was in great shape @105k miles, but it looks like they parked in the damn pine barrens for a few years.
Not too good to begin with
There was quite a bit of this, all over
On the hood...
On the roof...
On the trunk....
Washed up
Surprisingly few swirls/scratches. Probably because it was never washed.
Not even the sides of this thing were safe
Now, there are a bunch of different ways you can remove sap. Since I didn't want to spend a week getting rid of it, I went with a soft MF and some lacquer thinner
Which left me a car polka-dotted like this
Then some of this....
:buffing::buffing::buffing:
And we have this
Before:
After:
Fun stuff.
edit - I should note, quite a bit of those sap spots needed wet-sanding, and they weren't particularly interested in paying for it, so eh. Feels kind of half-done, but what're you gonna do.
Not too good to begin with
There was quite a bit of this, all over
On the hood...
On the roof...
On the trunk....
Washed up
Surprisingly few swirls/scratches. Probably because it was never washed.
Not even the sides of this thing were safe
Now, there are a bunch of different ways you can remove sap. Since I didn't want to spend a week getting rid of it, I went with a soft MF and some lacquer thinner
Which left me a car polka-dotted like this
Then some of this....
:buffing::buffing::buffing:
And we have this
Before:
After:
Fun stuff.
edit - I should note, quite a bit of those sap spots needed wet-sanding, and they weren't particularly interested in paying for it, so eh. Feels kind of half-done, but what're you gonna do.