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AudionutMike and I detailed this 2006 Mustang GT that belongs to a good friend of ours. This Mustang has many custom touches such as billet tail-light bezels, a blackout panel on the rear end, chrome door handles, lowered, short throw shifter, shock tower brace, torque thrust classic muscle wheels, larger throttle body, chip, and many more things.
It has seen it's share of drive through car washes which had unfortunately inflicted a good amount of damage to the paint.
After washing and claying, here's what we found. The swirls were much more severe than appears in the pictures (white just doesn't show up well):
We spent some time testing, starting with M105 on the rotary with a polishing pad but didn't have enough cut. We ended up with the "Nuke" - M105 w/ a Red Solo pad on the rotary. Testing revealed that 2-3 passes with this combo were necessary to remove 90% of the defects. This paint was rock hard!
We followed up with D151 on the PC on a LC green pad @ speed 6 for a few passes then speed 5 to finish.
Here are the befores/afters:
Headlight:
Headlight After:
Wheels Before:
Wheels After:
After Shots:
It took us 14 man hours to complete this job. This was our process:
- Wash w/ Gold Class wash, 2 bucket method
- Clay with mild clay (glass too)
- M105 on Solo red wool pad via Rotary @ 1500 RPM (2-3 passes)
- Rewash w/ gold class
- D151 on LC green pad via PC @ 6, 5
- Wheels polished using Weenol
- Tires dressed with Meg's tire gel
- Windows treated with RainX
- Headlights/Taillights polished with m105 on 4" white pad on PC @ 6, then PlastX on white pad @ speed 5
- Black trim dressed with Meg's Trim Detailer
Our friend Steve was very happy with the results. Next up, his MCA-Gold award winning, 500 HP (all motor) '67 Mustang....Stay tuned!
Thanks for looking
It has seen it's share of drive through car washes which had unfortunately inflicted a good amount of damage to the paint.
After washing and claying, here's what we found. The swirls were much more severe than appears in the pictures (white just doesn't show up well):
We spent some time testing, starting with M105 on the rotary with a polishing pad but didn't have enough cut. We ended up with the "Nuke" - M105 w/ a Red Solo pad on the rotary. Testing revealed that 2-3 passes with this combo were necessary to remove 90% of the defects. This paint was rock hard!
We followed up with D151 on the PC on a LC green pad @ speed 6 for a few passes then speed 5 to finish.
Here are the befores/afters:
Headlight:
Headlight After:
Wheels Before:
Wheels After:
After Shots:
It took us 14 man hours to complete this job. This was our process:
- Wash w/ Gold Class wash, 2 bucket method
- Clay with mild clay (glass too)
- M105 on Solo red wool pad via Rotary @ 1500 RPM (2-3 passes)
- Rewash w/ gold class
- D151 on LC green pad via PC @ 6, 5
- Wheels polished using Weenol
- Tires dressed with Meg's tire gel
- Windows treated with RainX
- Headlights/Taillights polished with m105 on 4" white pad on PC @ 6, then PlastX on white pad @ speed 5
- Black trim dressed with Meg's Trim Detailer
Our friend Steve was very happy with the results. Next up, his MCA-Gold award winning, 500 HP (all motor) '67 Mustang....Stay tuned!
Thanks for looking
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