Maroon Lexus-Lots of pics....

[Nick Chapman]

Here's a Lexus I just finished up. This guy bought this car for his son, who is just getting his drivers license. He took this car to a couple of body shops, and they all told him that it needed to be repainted, and there was no hope of saving the paint. Obviously, going to a 16 year old, a new paint job would be kind of silly, so he called me.

The goal of this car was just to make it look decent and shiney.

Befores...

[Nick Chapman]

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[Nick Chapman]

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Sorry, no full sun pictures. This car still has some scratches in it, but he only wanted the car to be shiney. He didn't want to pay too much to just have the car beat up by his son



Here are the afters...

[Nick Chapman]

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[Nick Chapman]

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[CWM3]

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That looks awesome. Great work and way to bring the paint back! Process?

[OhioCarBuff]

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Awesome job, it looks like the car had some clear coat failure that you were able to fix, that's interesting

[Nick Chapman]

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That looks awesome. Great work and way to bring the paint back! Process?

Process was...

Wash with Super Soap
Clay
Wet sand some places with 2000 grit
Solo with a double sided wool pad on the rotary
M151 on the DA with a yellow foam pad....let set up and take off

All in all, it took about 7 hours total.

Nick

[Mike Phillips]

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Incredible transformation Nick.

Simply incredible. From the pictures you posted it doesn't look like it could be saved and yet you brought it back to life...

Nice work.

Just goes to show that by using the right products with the right technique and some skill and experience you can sometimes do what others would think was impossible.

[RacerX88]

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Nick-
That was done with some passion! Great job.

[Sal329]

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Wow Nick that is amazing work right there. Talk about givin the car a second chance

[DogParkGuy]

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You could have charged $1,500 for your work and it still would have been a bargain.

[yalerd]

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Nick fantastic job on the Lexus, it's an incredible transformation you did to it, I get your customer son will be AMAZED!

[InfiniteDetail]

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W - O - W ! 'nuff said

[J. A. Michaels]

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You gave the car a new paint job. If I was given that car I sure would be proud of it. Love your reflection shots. Great work as usual.