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Pictures from Thursday Night Open Garage - October 14th, 2010
Well, the weather started to turn on us a bit late yesterday so we had a few no shows - which meant we had more time to give some dedicated one-on-one training to those who did come by.
But seriously, how bad could the weather be if Paul (the other pc) would roll out his beautiful first generation Mazda RX-7??
Frank made the trip all the way down from Ventura to learn how to take care of the finish on his Lexus SC430. It looked great when it rolled in but upon closer inspection it was clear that it needed some TLC.
We started out by showing Frank how to clay the surface to remove bonded contaminants.
Then we did a little hand demo using Ultimate Compound, just to get a feel for the paint.
A couple of hand applications gave us about an 80% reduction in swirls, but it would be a lot of work to achieve that uniformly over the entire car. So, we did a second spot using a G110v2 with a W8207 polishing pad and the same UC.
Frank took a shot at it and he took to it like a real pro!
The paint was looking much better at this point with virtually everything gone that should be gone. But we just knew this paint had a bit more to give (this car has really nice paint, by the way) so we tried a little M205 on a W9207 finishing pad as a follow up to UC.
We determined that the best course of action was two moderate passes with UC and a long, lazy follow up with M205 then top it all off with NXT Tech Wax 2.0. Here's the NXT hazing over.
And the final result following wipe off of the NXT.
This is the spot where that ugly squiggly scratch had been.
This was our half & half showing the removal of swirls and haze.
A general reflection shot of the trunk.
While we helped Frank refine his process and technique with the G110v2 there was other activity going on. Eric tried using paste wax with a 4" pad on the D/A, with great success.
Andy had a nasty pair of etch marks on the hood of his 3 Series but managed to remove them with the G110v2, W8207 and some Ultimate Compound. He then put a coat of M20 Polymer Sealant on the whole car.
To wrap things up, the whole gang got together to wipe the M20 off when it was ready. Gone in 60 seconds!
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