Garry Dean - Tampa, FL - 1996 Black Acura NSX severe scratch removal - PICS

[Garry Dean]

I detailed this NSX last week and I did shoot a video, but I was looking through my phone and saw these pics I had taken. I thought I would share.


This scratch removal project was the perfect situation because my client told me to do what I could. He planned to have the bumper repainted if I couldnt fix the scratches. So, I was pretty much free to burn if I went too deep and it wouldnt matter.


I really worked hard on this one. It really means a lot to me that I was able to preserve the factory paint for my client and retain some of the resale value of his fantastic car.





I started the sanding process with Meguiars Unigrit 2500. That didnt work out so well so I stepped it up to 2000... That wasnt doing much either so I busted out the 3M 1000.





Now we were in business! After I carefully sanded out all but just a couple of nasty spots it was time to back out. I followed the 1000 with 1500, 2000, then finally 2500 grit and polished out the sanding scratches with M101.




















It turned out really nice and my client was ecstatic!


Thanks for looking!

[DRT BRD]

Re: Garry Dean - Tampa, FL - 1996 Black Acura NSX severe scratch removal - PICS

Great save, Gary!

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Garry Dean - Tampa, FL - 1996 Black Acura NSX severe scratch removal - PICS

This is a perfect example of what we mean when we preach the philosophy of "use the least aggressive method to get the job done". When making that statement we don't want people to take the concept to the extreme and pick up SwirlX, ScratchX 2.0 and Ultimate Compound and start with SwirlX, only working up if you need to. That would be a sneaky marketing ploy to get you to buy a bunch of product you don't need, and that is most definitely NOT what we're about.

But you start talking about rotary compounding, wet sanding and other highly aggressive processes, "using the least aggressive method to get the job done" really comes into play. Could Garry have just started grinding away with a rotary buffer, wool pad and potent compound? Sure, but there's less control in that process, and potentially a lot of heat which can be very damaging to the paint. Instead, he opted to wet sand, but he started really easy with 2500 grit rather than just jumping in with 1000 grit. He have had to resort to 1000 grit in the end, but even then he refined his sanding marks down to 2500, in steps, which just made the compounding process that much easier and faster for him, and ultimately safer for the paint.

Of course, we expect this sort of thought process from Garry - he's been doing this a long time, he's one of the best out there, and he doesn't mind sharing his skill and knowledge with people new to the game. Nicely done, Garry!

[Detailing by M]

Re: Garry Dean - Tampa, FL - 1996 Black Acura NSX severe scratch removal - PICS

very nice save. did you not want to take all of the scratch out because you didn't want to burn threw?
regardless that's a very good job.

[Garry Dean]

Re: Garry Dean - Tampa, FL - 1996 Black Acura NSX severe scratch removal - PICS

Great save, Gary!

Thank you!

This is a perfect example of what we mean when we preach the philosophy of "use the least aggressive method to get the job done". When making that statement we don't want people to take the concept to the extreme and pick up SwirlX, ScratchX 2.0 and Ultimate Compound and start with SwirlX, only working up if you need to. That would be a sneaky marketing ploy to get you to buy a bunch of product you don't need, and that is most definitely NOT what we're about.

But you start talking about rotary compounding, wet sanding and other highly aggressive processes, "using the least aggressive method to get the job done" really comes into play. Could Garry have just started grinding away with a rotary buffer, wool pad and potent compound? Sure, but there's less control in that process, and potentially a lot of heat which can be very damaging to the paint. Instead, he opted to wet sand, but he started really easy with 2500 grit rather than just jumping in with 1000 grit. He have had to resort to 1000 grit in the end, but even then he refined his sanding marks down to 2500, in steps, which just made the compounding process that much easier and faster for him, and ultimately safer for the paint.

Of course, we expect this sort of thought process from Garry - he's been doing this a long time, he's one of the best out there, and he doesn't mind sharing his skill and knowledge with people new to the game. Nicely done, Garry!

That recognition means a lot to me, especially coming from you. Thank you for the kind words.

very nice save. did you not want to take all of the scratch out because you didn't want to burn threw?
regardless that's a very good job.

Thank you. The two small scratches that were left were extremely deep and it was not possible to remove them.