Miracle buff job!

[Kevin Doe]

Ok, lets start off showing the before pictures. Its a 93 RX-7 with Montego Blue paint. The paint looked like ****. At best I was hoping to save it from the booth.

Here are the pics: (these are after a wash, dry, and clay bar)











Now, my process was this:

- #83 with Sonus SFX-1 pad on the G100. Speed setting 5. Four applications on the horrizontal surfaces, three applications on the vertical.

- #80 with Sonus SFX-2 pad on the G100. Speed setting 5. One application.

- #7 with Sonus SFX-2 pad on the G100. Speed setting 3.5. One application.

- #21 with Sonus SFX-3 pad on the G100. Speed setting 3. Three applications on horrizontal surfaces, two on vertical surfaces.

After pics:

















Should have cleaned the windows huh?




If I got off work earlier I would have got some actual sunlight pics that you guys like so well, but its nearly dark when I get home. I'll have to wait for a sunny weekend day. It turned out better than I could have ever thought. All the swirls and fine scratches are gone, however some of the water spot etchings are still there (I could feel them with my finger, so they stayed). I am very pleased with the results, the Meguiars products, and the G100. Thanks for all yoru help and advice.

Kevin

[MaximusZTS]

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how was this car taken 'care' of? I dont know if I have seen a finish that bad. It seems it would have looked better if the owner never touched it.

But it looks killer now. Great job.

[Kevin Doe]

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Who knows, the guys said he washed it and dried it, and alway had it under a cover. My guess is he dusted it off often with a regular towel and the dust just scratched in. Or it could be from putting hte cover on and off with a dusty car. Or the cover could have been made from metal screen with embedded rocks. LOL.

[LiquidBlack]

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Wow, all that with the G100, very impressed. Would have thought you'd need to bump up to a rotary to get that mess cleared up!

What is mazda paint like to work with? Is it soft?

[2slow4you]

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OUch!!! 1st off, Nice car man, 2nd Nice job on the detail work car looks very good in them pics, and im sure it looks better in person. Whome ever had the car befoe you prolly did not take much care of it...

[Mike Phillips]

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What an amazing transformation Kevin! Just goes to show,

"You don't know what you can do until you try"


I remember when you posted some questions about this project here,


Paint Evaluation and Product Selection


Thank you for sharing your results, it's really helpful for others to see and rewarding to know our online forum was able to help save your car from the paint booth!

[gb387]

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Car looks great, nice work! How long did it take, sounds like a weeks worth of work.

[Kevin Doe]

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Took me about a week and a half, and cost me my lower back. Hahah. Not a week and a half straight, I'd take a day or two off. It was cake walk after the 4 applications of #83.

Oh yeah, as far as smells go, #83 was by far the best.

[Bence]

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Is there a reason why didn't you use speed 6?

[Michael Stoops]

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Wow. Just.........wow.


Wow.

[Kevin Doe]

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Is there a reason why didn't you use speed 6?

Becaue in Mikes how to article it said speed 5. I'm a newb, so I just followed directions.

[Mike Phillips]

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Is there a reason why didn't you use speed 6?

On this forum Meguiar's doesn't recommend using the G100 past the 5.0 setting as overtime, (half a car later), the potential exists that the PC will generate enough heat to cause the Velcro to de-laminate from both the backing plate and the foam pad. So as a company we don't recommend it.

[Mike Phillips]

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Because in Mikes how to article it said speed 5. I'm a newb, so I just followed directions.

And you obtained great results.

Point being is with the right technique, everything that can be accomplished with a dual action polisher can be accomplished at the 5.0 speed setting and by following the advice in the article.

[benhui86]

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OMG!!! WOW!!!! i have a friend whos car kinda look like the be4 pix..... wonder if i can save that w/ the pc...... is that single stage or clear coat?

[Bence]

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Mike, it is understandable, from your or from Meguiar's point, but we think and give advice from our experiences - without being *self proclaimed detailing gurus*... because the majority of us, just as Joe (Superior Shine), Gary Kouba, etc., etc., use speed 6 for heavy correction with a DA.

This won't take away anything from this beautiful job on this oxidized, thrashed clear. Outstanding work.