Subaru WRX Paint Correction

[Mirror Detailing]

Customer contacted me about getting his WRX polished as it had not been cleaned for 6-7 months from being way to busy...plus he had it taken to a detailing car wash here in GA called Cactus Carwash a few months prior to that and had them detail it. Said the car came out looking terrible all over and just had not had time to get it corrected elsewhere. Customer wanted to get my 2-Step Polish package as he knew the Subaru clears are really soft and easily correctable.

This one though was not an easy job. Clear seem to be even more soft than normal and was really hard to get the polishs off the paint without lightly marring the paint with the towel. The glaze that Cactus Carwash is known to use...was a PITA to get off the paint before hand and over-all this was not an easy job as every step had something that did not want to work right. Took me a good three hours longer than normal. But ended up with roughly 90-95% correction.

Process:
3 Foam Washes with CG Citrous Wash to break down the glaze on the paint
Washed w/ TBM w/ CG Cirtous Wash'n'Gloss
Rims/Tires w/ Diablo Wheel Gel
Clayed w/ Pinn. Ultra Poly Clay w/ ONR Clay Lube
IPA Wipedown
Taped w/ 3M Automotive Tap
Buffed:
SIP w/ LC Orange Pad via GG DA Speed 6
IPA Wipedown
Ultrafina w/ LC BLack Pad via GG DA Speed 6
LSP:
Menzerna Powerlock
CG Concourse 50/50
Windows:
Stoners Invisible Glass
Tires:
Pinn. Black Onxy Tire Gel


Before...

Shots of the paint upclose before...

Some compounding left from Cactus...

Testing the hood to figure out my process...

Pulled out into the sun to see how it looked under that light...

 

[Mirror Detailing]

Doors...

Left side after first buff...

Left Side after second buff, right side not..
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As I was cleaning out the door jambs and dust, more compound left over from Cactus...

After, which sucked because the sun had already set behind the trees before I could get some sun shots. Luckly customer was planning on getting some good photos once his new wheels are on so... I will eventually have some better shots.

Other after shots...

 

[Kristopher1129]

Beautiful man. Nicely done! rops:

 

[Shawn T.]

Great job! Paint looks slick!

 

[zliegen]

What a transformation! That WRX look WRECKED before you got your hands on it. Good job man! :xyxthumbs:

 

[Fast Eddie]

Wow, excellent turnaround, and your pictures are excellent!

 

[WRAPT C5Z06]

Damn, that looks crazy good! rops:

 

[Marc08EX]

Wow the after shots just came out great! The paint looks slick!

 

[guccigucci]

good job

 

[SeaJay's]

Great work Mirror as usual!

 

[sohail99]

Wow!! the paint looks amazing!!!

Great job :xyxthumbs:

 

[ExoticAutoDetai]

I don't know what is it with GA people I find them hard head. I don't know how many people take their cars to the cactus car wash but I know is A LOT of them and most of them are nice cars. The place does look nice but the DBA saids it all is a freaking car wash. so I know they leave the cars like crap. Yet people think is the best place.

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[ExoticAutoDetai]

By the way good job.

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[slickooz]

Really nice work!!! When you doing corrections on a really swirled out car, how many orange and black pads you go through? I was working on my cousin paint and after a couple panel the pads felt very soft and does that lose their cutting ability? He wasn't looking for a full correction because his car was very old and needed to wet sand everything to make it look better.