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Been awhile and thought I would start posting up some of my work again. Have a great client that has several low mileage cars and have been doing some light to medium correction work on some of them. Got this one in about a month ago,
Looked great in clients garage until I went and picked up. Stopped to get me a bite to eat and thought I would check in the direct sunlight. My jaw dropped!!!!
This is on the drunk lid, and a repaint. And as you can see another Quality body shop buff! There was Holograms all over the car. And on the trunk at the very back and on the verticle panel on the trunk the paint was also very, very thin!! (I was worried about trying to at least remove some swirls)
After a rinseless wash, clayed, taped and rims & tires covered as well as the windshield, ready to start lightly polishing.
Condition of the sides of the vehicle. This is the driver side front door I'll be working on.
After careful polishing, cleared the finish up nicely!
Great reflection shot across the hood.
High powered LED's shining down on the hood after polishing.
5 High Powered LED's helping me get the paint as good as possible as well as removing most swirl and scratches
Lighten it up! Great Reflection shine!
Before
After a 2 step polishing
Before, working on the trunk lid using slow speed, light pressure and a mild cleaner polish with a finishing pad.
After, looks alot better but this paint was very soft and very scratch sensitive
Top edge around door with light swirls and scratches.
Cleaned up about 90% or so of light swirls & scratches.
All polished, IPA wipe down and GTechniq top coat applied. Great Reflections, A nice older low mileage Caddy!!!
White walls and Caddy spokes!!
Finished, Black and Slick!
Thanks for looking, this was one fun polishing job except the trunk lid. I believe the trunk lid was a rush do-over and wasn't mixed right because it was very! very scratch sensitive!!!! Used my 7424XP on speed 4 about 10 lbs. pressure a finishing pad with M205 and then even lightened up on that for the last pass with just the weight of the Porter Cable to keep any DA haze of surface.
Looked great in clients garage until I went and picked up. Stopped to get me a bite to eat and thought I would check in the direct sunlight. My jaw dropped!!!!
This is on the drunk lid, and a repaint. And as you can see another Quality body shop buff! There was Holograms all over the car. And on the trunk at the very back and on the verticle panel on the trunk the paint was also very, very thin!! (I was worried about trying to at least remove some swirls)
After a rinseless wash, clayed, taped and rims & tires covered as well as the windshield, ready to start lightly polishing.
Condition of the sides of the vehicle. This is the driver side front door I'll be working on.
After careful polishing, cleared the finish up nicely!
Great reflection shot across the hood.
High powered LED's shining down on the hood after polishing.
5 High Powered LED's helping me get the paint as good as possible as well as removing most swirl and scratches
Lighten it up! Great Reflection shine!
Before
After a 2 step polishing
Before, working on the trunk lid using slow speed, light pressure and a mild cleaner polish with a finishing pad.
After, looks alot better but this paint was very soft and very scratch sensitive
Top edge around door with light swirls and scratches.
Cleaned up about 90% or so of light swirls & scratches.
All polished, IPA wipe down and GTechniq top coat applied. Great Reflections, A nice older low mileage Caddy!!!
White walls and Caddy spokes!!
Finished, Black and Slick!
Thanks for looking, this was one fun polishing job except the trunk lid. I believe the trunk lid was a rush do-over and wasn't mixed right because it was very! very scratch sensitive!!!! Used my 7424XP on speed 4 about 10 lbs. pressure a finishing pad with M205 and then even lightened up on that for the last pass with just the weight of the Porter Cable to keep any DA haze of surface.
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