MirrorFinish
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- Jun 30, 2011
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Hi Chaps.
Well here is my car in May starting to detail the Sorento and getting the paint corrected. As you may or not know most cars I did on full corrections got wet sanded. Seems pointless to me taking off all that clear to remove swirls if you don't at least take off the peaks of the peel and polish out. Really takes no more time and in fact is faster.
So here we have my 2006 Kia Sorento EX, this car had lived in Florida till the owner moved to Texas. Luckily he bought it new and worked for Kia so had everything done to it and I bought it with 3 years warranty left. So far the car is great except it's passion for fuel; 17 mpg is its diet.
I started it in May then it too hot to carry on, it was 50c in the garage so this is the first part and have started again this week which will be part two. I decided to sand off the pin stripe this week as well.
I did not go for a complete flat panel so some peel may still appear but I think this is a great turnaround from a car that only got washed in a car wash. Time taken per panel from wet sand to final refining was about an hour, just goes to show it does not take days to correct a car.
Car will have two coats of CQuartz applied once finished.
A few pics.....
Plenty of Orange Peel. Yuk and there was a lot of swirls as well.
Started flatting with 2000 grit paper, paint readings were about 180um across the car except the boot lid that was 400um so some care would be taken there.
Most of the rear end flatted. Paint readings were about 175um by now.
As I said |I did not go bananas on total flatness but this is a great improvement, started the bonnet.
Nasty Scratches.
And thats it for now, Part 2 will be the finish as has cooled down to 90f so |I can apply the CQuartz.
Well here is my car in May starting to detail the Sorento and getting the paint corrected. As you may or not know most cars I did on full corrections got wet sanded. Seems pointless to me taking off all that clear to remove swirls if you don't at least take off the peaks of the peel and polish out. Really takes no more time and in fact is faster.
So here we have my 2006 Kia Sorento EX, this car had lived in Florida till the owner moved to Texas. Luckily he bought it new and worked for Kia so had everything done to it and I bought it with 3 years warranty left. So far the car is great except it's passion for fuel; 17 mpg is its diet.
I started it in May then it too hot to carry on, it was 50c in the garage so this is the first part and have started again this week which will be part two. I decided to sand off the pin stripe this week as well.
I did not go for a complete flat panel so some peel may still appear but I think this is a great turnaround from a car that only got washed in a car wash. Time taken per panel from wet sand to final refining was about an hour, just goes to show it does not take days to correct a car.
Car will have two coats of CQuartz applied once finished.
A few pics.....
Plenty of Orange Peel. Yuk and there was a lot of swirls as well.
Started flatting with 2000 grit paper, paint readings were about 180um across the car except the boot lid that was 400um so some care would be taken there.
Most of the rear end flatted. Paint readings were about 175um by now.
As I said |I did not go bananas on total flatness but this is a great improvement, started the bonnet.
Nasty Scratches.
And thats it for now, Part 2 will be the finish as has cooled down to 90f so |I can apply the CQuartz.
