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Though today was a very busy one there was an hour to spare and my friend had his neice's car in for some mechanical work, he always cleans his familys cars when he brings them in for servicing etc.
I took one look at the bonnet and had to get stuck in as it was so badly oxidised.
I know this is nowhere near fishbonezkhen's write up but this was an hours fun time.
Heres the paint in question.
We attempted a small section by hand with a standard used car polish and tbqh it looked pants.
I taped up half the bonnet for a little practical lesson on before and after sections and to show my friend what could actually be done with something this bad without the aid of a whacking great compounding head and G3 so out with the flex and a combo which i knew it needed...........lambswool bonnet, finishing pad, menzerna power gloss and final finish.
Now this was quite the nasty thing and it was going well but very slowly ( bloody hard work i can tell you )
This is a pic after one bout with 2 blobs of power gloss and 1 blob of final finish ( to make the power gloss glide easier )
More hard work to follow but i cranked it up a knotch by using power gloss only.
here is the lambswool after a quarter of the bonnet.
Many sheep would of be sacrificed had i been doing the whole car
After a good session with the power gloss and lamswool i then refined with a few generous passes with a finishing pad and menzerna final finish speeds 1200rpm, 1700rpm and back to 1200rpm ( speeds 1 & 2 ).
Work progressed nicely and the paint just got better and better.
Now remember the before finish.
And after.
Now bearing in mind that the exercise was not to entirely correct the paint but to rectify the oxidised panel and remove as much swirling as possible in the short space of time that was given.
Applied a generous coat of supagaurd to seal the finsh and left for an hour as per manufacturers requirements.
Then removed to reveal this.
Now i know its not a 100% correction but its definately 100% improvement.
Appologise for the picture quality but i only had my 3.2 mega peanut camera phone on me
I took one look at the bonnet and had to get stuck in as it was so badly oxidised.
I know this is nowhere near fishbonezkhen's write up but this was an hours fun time.
Heres the paint in question.
We attempted a small section by hand with a standard used car polish and tbqh it looked pants.
I taped up half the bonnet for a little practical lesson on before and after sections and to show my friend what could actually be done with something this bad without the aid of a whacking great compounding head and G3 so out with the flex and a combo which i knew it needed...........lambswool bonnet, finishing pad, menzerna power gloss and final finish.
Now this was quite the nasty thing and it was going well but very slowly ( bloody hard work i can tell you )
This is a pic after one bout with 2 blobs of power gloss and 1 blob of final finish ( to make the power gloss glide easier )
More hard work to follow but i cranked it up a knotch by using power gloss only.
here is the lambswool after a quarter of the bonnet.
Many sheep would of be sacrificed had i been doing the whole car
After a good session with the power gloss and lamswool i then refined with a few generous passes with a finishing pad and menzerna final finish speeds 1200rpm, 1700rpm and back to 1200rpm ( speeds 1 & 2 ).
Work progressed nicely and the paint just got better and better.
Now remember the before finish.
And after.
Now bearing in mind that the exercise was not to entirely correct the paint but to rectify the oxidised panel and remove as much swirling as possible in the short space of time that was given.
Applied a generous coat of supagaurd to seal the finsh and left for an hour as per manufacturers requirements.
Then removed to reveal this.
Now i know its not a 100% correction but its definately 100% improvement.
Appologise for the picture quality but i only had my 3.2 mega peanut camera phone on me
You even put a smiley that was appropriate. 'Fava Beans and a nice chianti' 
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