Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

You do some fine work, Rasky, fine work indeed!

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

Great work as usual, Rasky. Her car came out looking fantastic. The paint looks awesome. Great work, way to go.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

My wife has the same color on her Honda. I think the paint to start off with is not the greatest. A few cracks here and there for an 04'. I may have to have it repainted and go with the same color. I'm sure you'll keep your fiancees car looking great all the time Lol

I love this color! The blue flake just before sundown is awesome!

What's funny is that I've worked on Civic's, and a TL in the same color but they all were not to the level of quality this car had on it right from the factory. When the PDR guy was popping out some of the dents he even commented on how nice the finish was. Correction on this car was different too (pre painting) in that it was much harder than the Civic's and TL's, plus it seemed to chip less.

This new clear reminds me of the Corvette's! Hards as rock but scratches easily.

[Hemin8r]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

My wife has the same color on her Honda. I think the paint to start off with is not the greatest. A few cracks here and there for an 04'. I may have to have it repainted and go with the same color. I'm sure you'll keep your fiancees car looking great all the time Lol

[RaskyR1]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

What did you use on the chrome trim?

The trim around the glass is new, the rest got buffed with M205 when I did the 4th step.

[Tuck91]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

Wow, awesome work Rasky

That car looks insane!

[CieraSL]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

What did you use on the chrome trim?

[RaskyR1]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

Awesome work Rasky. You made that paint look absolutely georgeous.

Thanks Alex!

Wow! Awesome job, Rasky!

Thanks buddy!

You just made that paint look 10x better. Great job!!!!

Thanks Jesse! Lets just hope she keeps it looking this way....

[Hemin8r]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

You just made that paint look 10x better. Great job!!!!

[CieraSL]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

Wow! Awesome job, Rasky!

[Alex C.]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

Awesome work Rasky. You made that paint look absolutely georgeous.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Full wet sand n' buff on '05 NBP Acura RL, by Rasky's Auto Detailing

After pics!




















Brinkmann


Halogen


Flash (I like how this made the blue pearl POP)



I drove the car about 30 miles before these pics so there may be some light dust on the car…

















I didn’t keep track of my time on this job since I wasn’t getting paid to do it, but I'd guess I have around 40 hours invested….either way, I’d say the fiancée definitely owes me some serious luvin’!!!

Thanks For looking!

Rasky

[RaskyR1]

***Let me first start by saying that this car underwent a full repaint and that this is NOT something I recommend you do on a factory painted car to remove orange peel.***


This is actually my fiancée and the car, which got hammered with over $9k in hail damage! My father works at the body shop where the work was done and I offered to do the wet sanding and buffing in exchange for having the bumpers and side moldings painted….that and I didn’t really want them doing it anyway.


Originally I had planned on doing the work the same week I picked it up knowing just how hard these newer high solids clear coats can get. Unfortunately things kept coming up and the job kept getting pushed out. It was about 4-5 weeks time between when it was painted to when I started the work…not good.


As my past experience has shown, the clear was indeed rock hard! Probably the hardest I have ever worked on and my normal process for wet sanding had to be tweaked in order to work with this paint type.


Wet sanding process:

-3M P800 via DA with soft interface pad for initial leveling (I taped off the edges 1/16-1/8 away for this step since I wanted to avoid thinning an edge too much)
-3M P1500 grit via DA with soft interface pad.
-3M P3000 grit via DA with soft interface pad.


Buffing process:

- 3M Perfect-it 3000 extra cut rubbing compound via rotary and Meguiars Solo heavy cutting pad (cut faster than M95 and Power Gloss but left deep marring)
-Meguiars M95 via rotary and Meguiars Solo light cutting pad (removed heavy marring from the extra cut and picked up any pig tails I may have missed)
-Menzurna SIP via rotary and orange LC Classic pad (finished nicely)
-Meguiars M205 via PC7424XP and White LC Classic pad (removed any remaining buffer trails left behind from SIP)
-Menzurna PO85RD via rotary and black LC Classic pad (Icing on the cake!)

My choice of LSP was Blackfire Wet-Diamond.


Pre hail damage the paint on this car was actually like glass right from the factory. As you will see, after the car was painted it had some pretty serious orange peel, and to be honest, I wasn’t really happy with the way it came out. While my father did all the body work on the car, they do have dedicated painters at his shop so I couldn’t blame him in any way. They shop normally turn out top notch work. regardless, I didn’t feel it was so bad that it needed to be redone, but it definitely meant taking off more clear than I really wanted too in order to get it to the level it was at prior to the damage.


Before sanding I spoke with the manager about the paint thickness readings I found on all the new panels and wanted to ensure full paint warranty if I were to level the paint myself….which he assured me they would honor.


On with the pics!!!


Bad orange peel








Sanding in process