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Documented: Wet sand black chip repair
As promised, here are some pictures of the recent touch-up I did on a 2007 Black Mercedes CL 550.
The client was a referral from the client that provided the white lifted Jeep most of you remember, the $100,000 blue buggy, and the airplane I detailed.
The car when I arrived was quite filthy, and the paint was fairly thrashed for being as new as it was. However, the owner and I agreed a single pass of M205 would be our best bet for what they wanted, and as much time as I had (only 1 day).
I also had a plethora of scratches to handle, which I will document here, and put the rest of the detail in a different thread.
Here are the before shots... clearly deep and way down into the primer. Easily could feel them with your finger nail.
So next thing I did was an isopropyl wipe down of the entire area, a quick scuff or two of 3,000 grit Meguiar's Unigrit wet sanding paper to prep the chips, and taped the area off to minimize sanding areas beyond the chip.
Once taped and prepped, I used a toothpick for the skinnier and thinner spots, and then a fine brush to begin filling the larger spots.
I waited about 15-20 minutes in between coming back to lightly sand the blob, and add a new coat.
Then after 3 applications I pulled the tape off to get a better idea of how it was coming along (it's hard to tell when it is taped off). After removing the tape, I used a foam applicator and Meguiar's ScratchX 2.0 to remove the sanding by hand. *This is NOT an official recommendation (Using ScratchX 2.0 to remove sanding marks), but I was using the least aggressive method possible and it happened to work fine.
I didn't get a picture of the removed sanding marks during this step, sorry.
I did get it for a later check on the top LEFT blobs, but not the ones on the right.
I started to get pressed for time (the polishing was not going as easily as I had hoped) so I wasn't able to document every test and check, but here are some final after shots:
Was it 100% perfect? No, of course not. But it was good enough that the owner had to ask me which side of the vehicle they were on, and even then she couldn't find them. Score 1 for Meguiar's + Mark Kleis.
Hope you enjoyed!
The client was a referral from the client that provided the white lifted Jeep most of you remember, the $100,000 blue buggy, and the airplane I detailed.
The car when I arrived was quite filthy, and the paint was fairly thrashed for being as new as it was. However, the owner and I agreed a single pass of M205 would be our best bet for what they wanted, and as much time as I had (only 1 day).
I also had a plethora of scratches to handle, which I will document here, and put the rest of the detail in a different thread.
Here are the before shots... clearly deep and way down into the primer. Easily could feel them with your finger nail.
So next thing I did was an isopropyl wipe down of the entire area, a quick scuff or two of 3,000 grit Meguiar's Unigrit wet sanding paper to prep the chips, and taped the area off to minimize sanding areas beyond the chip.
Once taped and prepped, I used a toothpick for the skinnier and thinner spots, and then a fine brush to begin filling the larger spots.
I waited about 15-20 minutes in between coming back to lightly sand the blob, and add a new coat.
Then after 3 applications I pulled the tape off to get a better idea of how it was coming along (it's hard to tell when it is taped off). After removing the tape, I used a foam applicator and Meguiar's ScratchX 2.0 to remove the sanding by hand. *This is NOT an official recommendation (Using ScratchX 2.0 to remove sanding marks), but I was using the least aggressive method possible and it happened to work fine.
I didn't get a picture of the removed sanding marks during this step, sorry.
I did get it for a later check on the top LEFT blobs, but not the ones on the right.
I started to get pressed for time (the polishing was not going as easily as I had hoped) so I wasn't able to document every test and check, but here are some final after shots:
Was it 100% perfect? No, of course not. But it was good enough that the owner had to ask me which side of the vehicle they were on, and even then she couldn't find them. Score 1 for Meguiar's + Mark Kleis.
Hope you enjoyed!
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