Toyota Axio in for an enhancement

[zckid]

Hello friends!


Greetings from sunny Mauritius rops:


This car needed an uplifting, it really needed one even if it appears so nice.

Wash & decontamination

Claying the upper surfaces

Tar spots, plenty of them inn the lower areas

OMG!

All surface clayed, car has been rinsed and now starting with the glass


Water spots, no clear view

wiper marks smearing

After

To the paintwork:

Heavy swirls

S_C_R_A_T_C_H_E_S

more

and more

and plenty of them

The long term effect of bird droppings

Plenty of bird poo stains under fluorescent light

Heavy correction by way of damp sanding, taking care of the famous orange peel too

Improved

More scratches..... Deep ones.... clear coat and paint gone

Improved

More correction work

Thorough inspection and marking of remaining isolated defects

90% + defects removed

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/suzm-dayMygw4F-2d2oCnfyvMWg72KHvdr37bwuDFAo=w748-h561-no



The sun test

Holograms after heavy correction. These were taken care of with the finishing step.

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Remember

50 -50

TA DA

Roof refined

Same for hood and other sections but with limited pics since the job was finished late at night.

Thanks for being with us. Your comments and thoughts are most welcome. :dblthumb2:

Zaid

 

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Talk about a make over! That paint was trashed! Beautiful work.

What was the process?

 

[Sicoupe]

Great work! Looks totally different now

 

[zckid]

Great work! Looks totally different now

Thanks a lot Sicoupe :dblthumb2:

Talk about a make over! That paint was trashed! Beautiful work.

What was the process?

Thanks a lot Mike :dblthumb2:


the process is as follows:

wash:
2BM method, mf washmitt, local car shampoo & APC mix
after wheels were cleaned and decontaminated with Sonax Full Effect

Paintwork Decontamination:
Bilt Hamber regular clay

To remove the tar from the lower parts of the paintwork, I used the Sonax full effect. it worked
there were plenty of tar spots

Car was rinsed and inspected. In the sun, only swirls were visible. actually the swirls were hiding many defects, bird dropping stains, orange peel, loads of scratches.

I proceeded with some wet sanding, mirka 1500 grit.
I took the DA used the mirka 2000 and 4000 sanding discs.

:buffing:

Makita, LC & Sonax pads and Menz FG 400 and 203s

I spent more time on the correction stage to ensure that no traces are left. this made refining easier.

Topped the paint work with Collinite 476.

Glass:
DP glass restorer/Sonax profiline glass polish on carpro rayon glass pads

Trim was treated with CG new look trim gel

Tires had a local dressing applied

:xyxthumbs:

 

[jamesboyy]

Marvelous work on that Toyota paintwork