Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

[Ganesa]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

very couragous work .... especially without the paint gauge, and using a DA...
I really wanna practice this one day...

btw, your dad must have been happy having a son as a detailer... hehehe

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Great results. It's great to take care of you dad's new toy for him.

[MrCLRider]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Very brave indeed.

I wish I had the balls to do that to my new Fusion, the paint looks like poo with the amount of orange peel it has..

[Calais]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Very impressive work. Good job.

[cardriver]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Great results. Like a mirror.

[Fischer]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Good results! And you are a brave man (or not too afraid of your dad's wrath)

BTW, what sanding block did you use?

I ended up using the uniblock or whatever its called by Meguiars and then some 3m sand paper.

[jlb85]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Good results! And you are a brave man (or not too afraid of your dad's wrath)

BTW, what sanding block did you use?

[Fischer]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Shaved paint makes me smile.

Nice work.

Did you Gage it b4 you started ?

I know im going to be bashed for saying this but no, I didnt guage. Ive been practicing on a older panel for a while now and it took me a while to completely wet sand through the clear coat and what I did to the benz was just a light sanding since there was a bit of orange peel left over.

Ill try to get my hands on a paint guage and compare the left panel and the right one.

[SHYNEMAN123]

Re: Mercedes 500 Complete wetsand

Shaved paint makes me smile.

Nice work.

Did you Gage it b4 you started ?

[Fischer]

My dad just picked up a 2003 E500 Mercedes Benz. I asked why he would just buy one out of the blue and he said "One time in a mans life, he is allowed to have a brain fart and just buys something hes always wanted"

Its not exactly my first choice of color, I would have opted for a black or maybe a silver, just not this "midnight blue". Anyways Back on topic

He complained alot about the unevenness of the paint so I told him I could fix that. And here is my first panel. I didn't really measure the paint even though I should have but in the end the results were good and this car will only need it once since its going to be his pride and joy and not a DD.

I basically did the one panel with 2000 grit sand paper and polished with my Flex DA with M105 and then with some m205

Before


( different panel but same issue)











and Final

After


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Pretty good results in my opinion without going to extreme on the sanding. I plan on doing 2 panels a day til I get it finished so I do not get so worn out and start slacking or cutting corners.