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As some of you know, I recently lost my car in an accident when an 18 wheeler backed into it.
After weeks of searching, we finally found a replacement for it. We got a 2006 PT Cruiser Limited Edition. I have been working on it a few hours at a time trying to get it up to the level my other car was when it was totaled.
For right now, it's a work in progress, but I thought I'd share a few pics of the parts I've completed so far.
This was the driver's side floor mat when I got started:
I used APC 10:1, a carpet brush, bucket of hot water and wet/dry vac to clean up the mess. There are a few spots that wouldn't come out, but I was pleased that most of it did.
I really like the car, but hate the jerk who owns the lot we bought it from so getting his stupid sticker off the car was important. Notice the sticker below the badge on the lower left tail gate.
I used a hair dryer to heat the sticker up to soften it and the adhesive and used a plastic razor blade to scrape it off. This photo is after the sticker came off, but before the area was cleaned up.
I used Goo Gone to clean up the residue, When I was done with that, I used my 110 with a yellow polishing pad and 205 and followed that up with a coat of 26.
One of the biggest things that was annoying me was the scratches and paint transfer on the roof. I knew they were too deep to completely get rid of so my goal was to diminish them as much as possible.
I washed with ONR, then did a few passes with 105 on a burgandy cutting pad on speed 5, followed that up with 205 on a yellow polishing pad on speed 3 and topped it off with a coat of 26 on finishing pad on speed 2.
I still have a lot of work to do to have all the before and after pictures to share. It will probably be next weekend before I can get back to it, but I'll update this post with more photos when I have them.
Thanks to all of you who have been sharing your knowledge with me over the past few months. I have applied a lot of what I have learned to this project.
After weeks of searching, we finally found a replacement for it. We got a 2006 PT Cruiser Limited Edition. I have been working on it a few hours at a time trying to get it up to the level my other car was when it was totaled.
For right now, it's a work in progress, but I thought I'd share a few pics of the parts I've completed so far.
This was the driver's side floor mat when I got started:
I used APC 10:1, a carpet brush, bucket of hot water and wet/dry vac to clean up the mess. There are a few spots that wouldn't come out, but I was pleased that most of it did.
I really like the car, but hate the jerk who owns the lot we bought it from so getting his stupid sticker off the car was important. Notice the sticker below the badge on the lower left tail gate.
I used a hair dryer to heat the sticker up to soften it and the adhesive and used a plastic razor blade to scrape it off. This photo is after the sticker came off, but before the area was cleaned up.
I used Goo Gone to clean up the residue, When I was done with that, I used my 110 with a yellow polishing pad and 205 and followed that up with a coat of 26.
One of the biggest things that was annoying me was the scratches and paint transfer on the roof. I knew they were too deep to completely get rid of so my goal was to diminish them as much as possible.
I washed with ONR, then did a few passes with 105 on a burgandy cutting pad on speed 5, followed that up with 205 on a yellow polishing pad on speed 3 and topped it off with a coat of 26 on finishing pad on speed 2.
I still have a lot of work to do to have all the before and after pictures to share. It will probably be next weekend before I can get back to it, but I'll update this post with more photos when I have them.
Thanks to all of you who have been sharing your knowledge with me over the past few months. I have applied a lot of what I have learned to this project.
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