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lol, well, my D/A and pads arrived today, my first piece of detailing machinenary, i was always the hammer and barehands kind of guy so this is totally a new world for me, and such a beautiful world it is! 
So before i try it on my new merc, i decided to play with it on my audi and get a hang of it. The patient, a 14yrs old Black Audi my dad gave me as graduate present, that's 8 years ago. It's still with all original factory paint job and no rust,cracks but trust me, the paint is a really bad shape, scraches and swirls everywhere, but hey.. at least i never hit the postbox, angry lorries, tree, my neighbor's fence or ended up in a ditch. lol
To get a taste of how bad the paint was, here's a picture, you won't even need the sun or specialized lights to reveal the years of hard abuse:
It's a section of the boot lid i'll try to revive first.
Here's what i used,
G110v2 in gear five, W8207 foam pad, 4 passes of UC, then 2 passes of SwirlX. which took me around 30 minutes to finish HALF a boot lid. here's the result:
BEFORE wax
Some contrast?
As you can see, there are still some scratches left, maybe i should re-visit this section when i do the whole car tomorrow. But yay! as my first attempt, i must say it's alot easier than i expected, i thought i was doomed to polish the clearcoat away or leave a huge dent in my paint! LOL!
So before i try it on my new merc, i decided to play with it on my audi and get a hang of it. The patient, a 14yrs old Black Audi my dad gave me as graduate present, that's 8 years ago. It's still with all original factory paint job and no rust,cracks but trust me, the paint is a really bad shape, scraches and swirls everywhere, but hey.. at least i never hit the postbox, angry lorries, tree, my neighbor's fence or ended up in a ditch. lol
To get a taste of how bad the paint was, here's a picture, you won't even need the sun or specialized lights to reveal the years of hard abuse:
It's a section of the boot lid i'll try to revive first.
Here's what i used,
G110v2 in gear five, W8207 foam pad, 4 passes of UC, then 2 passes of SwirlX. which took me around 30 minutes to finish HALF a boot lid. here's the result:
BEFORE wax
Some contrast?
As you can see, there are still some scratches left, maybe i should re-visit this section when i do the whole car tomorrow. But yay! as my first attempt, i must say it's alot easier than i expected, i thought i was doomed to polish the clearcoat away or leave a huge dent in my paint! LOL!
and get lots of manly touches .. Mmmm my precious....
foam cutting pad finishing with M-205 on a W-8207B foam polishing pad. I recently did a black mustang with this combo and it turned out damn near next to flawless.
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