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A friend of mine wanted some custom paintwork done on her modified 2003 PT GT (the thing is making around 280HP!!) and thought about an ode to the old Mopar strobe side graphic with the hockey stick end to it. Well, she fell prey to a young guy who sold himself as a guy who could do a great job for not much money. Caveat emptor as Julius Caesar might have said!!
Well, the paint itself came out so-so but his finishing steps left much to be desired, to say the least, and even his prep could have been better. There was a TON of overspray on the roof, so much so that in spots the clay bar did nothing. Zip, zilch, nada. We had to - cringe - wetsand to take it down. Sorry, no pics of that, but you can imagine how beautiful the roof looked with the overspray gone but full of 2000 grit sanding marks!
Anyway, here's a couple before shots:
This is how the car looked when it first pulled up at my house. Yikes!! We washed it with Gold Class but, of course, it looked pretty much the same after!
Here's a close up of the hood after washing. Rather disgusting, wouldn't you say? And yet, the young painter actually claimed this to be the finished product. He attacked...er, sorry, he buffed the paint with a cheap 2 speed rotary and a wool pad. No clue what chemical he used as I wasn't there to witness the tragedy.
This is the driver's side rear door. You can see what look like scuff marks of some sort in a vertical pattern. I have no clue how you introduce such marring into the paint.
Anyway, I gave M80 a shot and it was quickly apparent that this was going to be a looooong process, so I swapped to M83 and went at it. Here's the obligatory half-and-half shot of the hood after two passes with M83.
This is the passenger side, again showing before/after side by side. In this light the paint just looks really dull and not swirled. It was just plain bad.
Well, the paint itself came out so-so but his finishing steps left much to be desired, to say the least, and even his prep could have been better. There was a TON of overspray on the roof, so much so that in spots the clay bar did nothing. Zip, zilch, nada. We had to - cringe - wetsand to take it down. Sorry, no pics of that, but you can imagine how beautiful the roof looked with the overspray gone but full of 2000 grit sanding marks!
Anyway, here's a couple before shots:
This is how the car looked when it first pulled up at my house. Yikes!! We washed it with Gold Class but, of course, it looked pretty much the same after!
Here's a close up of the hood after washing. Rather disgusting, wouldn't you say? And yet, the young painter actually claimed this to be the finished product. He attacked...er, sorry, he buffed the paint with a cheap 2 speed rotary and a wool pad. No clue what chemical he used as I wasn't there to witness the tragedy.
This is the driver's side rear door. You can see what look like scuff marks of some sort in a vertical pattern. I have no clue how you introduce such marring into the paint.
Anyway, I gave M80 a shot and it was quickly apparent that this was going to be a looooong process, so I swapped to M83 and went at it. Here's the obligatory half-and-half shot of the hood after two passes with M83.
This is the passenger side, again showing before/after side by side. In this light the paint just looks really dull and not swirled. It was just plain bad.
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