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Saturday I had the privelige to work on a truly beautiful 1992 Acura NSX. The paint was in decent shape, but had its share of marring and swirls.
The front bumper, front and rear bumpers, as well as the side skirts are all very rare imported pieces. The painter did not do a very good job on the front bumper when wet sanding and the orange peel was horrible.
It was my job to wet sand the finsh down to a desirable "less orange peely" level.
There were also quite a few spots where after wet sanding they just "forgot" to buff the marks off. 
Not knowing the paint system and without knowing how much paint was actually on the bumper I was a bit leery(sp). Worse than that was the fact the painer really hacked up the waet sanding job. He must have used some really poor quality paper and he sanded in every direction. This poor technique/material choice left the paint with deeper isolated scratches that really needed to be leveled in order to correct.
I also wet sanded the front head light covers because they had several really deep scratches from being stored upside down. Since this was factory clear, I used a bit more caution.
I sanded with Meguiars papers in back and forth motions using light pressure. I soaked the papers in a solution of meguiars #00 and water for about 30 minutes prior to starting. After three strokes I rinsed the paper and moved along.
Before:
This is after a few passes with #84 meguiars compound cleaner on the rotary with a meguiars cutting pad. I then switched to the PC and applied #83 DACP, then #82 swirl free polish. No "wax" in this pic.
Here are some different angles
Before
After
The front bumper, front and rear bumpers, as well as the side skirts are all very rare imported pieces. The painter did not do a very good job on the front bumper when wet sanding and the orange peel was horrible.
It was my job to wet sand the finsh down to a desirable "less orange peely" level.
There were also quite a few spots where after wet sanding they just "forgot" to buff the marks off. Not knowing the paint system and without knowing how much paint was actually on the bumper I was a bit leery(sp). Worse than that was the fact the painer really hacked up the waet sanding job. He must have used some really poor quality paper and he sanded in every direction. This poor technique/material choice left the paint with deeper isolated scratches that really needed to be leveled in order to correct.
I also wet sanded the front head light covers because they had several really deep scratches from being stored upside down. Since this was factory clear, I used a bit more caution.
I sanded with Meguiars papers in back and forth motions using light pressure. I soaked the papers in a solution of meguiars #00 and water for about 30 minutes prior to starting. After three strokes I rinsed the paper and moved along.
Before:
This is after a few passes with #84 meguiars compound cleaner on the rotary with a meguiars cutting pad. I then switched to the PC and applied #83 DACP, then #82 swirl free polish. No "wax" in this pic.
Here are some different angles
Before
After
really nice done job...
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