Welcome to the Shine Station

[zckid]

Hello friends! rops:

But before we start, could you guess the color of this car?

A hint

Another one

A better clue, but guess this part of the ride

This is what I had to do a paint correction on.

No beading, no sheeting, no protection, just water clinging on all surfaces and a flake-off while washing the car…. Permanent damage

Whole car washed using 2BM method, MF washmitt, car shampoo and APC mix, and finally dried with MF towels, all available locally


Claying

Ready for inspection

Feeling blessed! The sun was here! Looking for defects was so easy 

Close-up

More…. Too many

The infamous RIDS and Scratches
The side-mirror

Many… many of them….

Textured paint, orange peel, pits and pores, blurriness etc….

More and more

we really know how much you care 
& now we are ready for real fun.

The headlights
The right side before

After

The left side before

The afters

 

[zckid]

To the most sought after part of the ride… paintwork :buffing:

Tools n equipment:

Compounding: Optimum hyper compound, carpro denim pads, optimum doublesided wool pad
Polishing: menzerna 203s, LC white pad
Finishing: Menzerna PO85rd, LC black and LC Red HT pads
LSP: Menz Powerlock , wipedown with the softest towel (yellow) I had locally

CarPro pads effective but dangerous too.

Voilà !

close-up

close-up

Compounding after paint leveled

Refined

Further refined

Before

After

Blurriness gone

Look carefully, the permanent damage in focus

50-50

During

After

Friends in need

the side Mirrors

Mirror - Mirror

Glow with sunset

A detail in another detail

The boss inspecting

close-up

the doors

What’s your favorite color?

house on wheels

Mirror house

Water test

Hydrophobic-ity
(These are the last set of pictures, after sun shots and mirror shots)

 

[zckid]

:nomore: Saved some sun shots as the sun loves to play with the clouds here rops:

The door sides

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extreme close-up

The roof

When others envy your ride’s shine, it’s BeyondShine.

My appreciation and thanks go to all of the friends who have helped me with their advice, their detailed posts and instructions, their videos and the hands-on experience from which I learned a lot. :iagree:

Thanks for viewing, your comments and thoughts are most welcome.

Zaid :driver:

 

[Dr_Pain]

Your detailing assistant is awfully young and small! LOL!!!

That paint was HAMMERED! Great job rescuing it!

 

[sunday joe]

Tu Veni, Tu Vidi, Tu vici.
Great work. You had it cut out for you.

 

[zckid]

Tu Veni, Tu Vidi, Tu vici.
Great work. You had it cut out for you.

Your detailing assistant is awfully young and small! LOL!!!

That paint was HAMMERED! Great job rescuing it!

Thanks a lot for your encouraging words rops: most appreciated :dblthumb2:

and actually the assistant is me that one is the BOSS Im the MAN

 

[a g thang]

Wow great job and write up!!!!


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[Chris@AutoCleanse]

Beautiful work, picture taking, and documentation. The car came out great.

 

[BradsDetailing]

Don't let the boss "boss" you around too much. Great work

 

[HateSwirls]

Fantastic work on a trashed finish:dblthumb2:

Twice this week I see great results using the Optimum Hyper, I'm like hmmmmm, am I missing out on a great product!

Good thing you had the rotary and a wool pad , that helped save the paint.

 

[allenk4]

What happened with the CarPro Denim pads?