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Had a lady contact me and said she has seen my work and wondered if I could clean up her headlights and all the old faded paint on her hood, so she could see driving back from college late at night and the hood is driving her crazy! I went out about a week later and looked at condition of the hood and headlights. OUCH!! The hood had me worried because the rest of the paint wasn't bad. Just the top of the hood and horizontal surface of the fenders.
I looked at the headlights and they was in pretty rough shape as well, I told the lady I could correct the headlights were she could see better and would be safer driving at night but from the feel and looks of the hood I didn't promise anything and told her I just really didn't know if there was anything I could do but I would try a couple things.
Here's the hood and taped off for a test spot.
Here's a close-up.
The first test I did was with Ultimate Compound by hand and worked in pretty good for about a minute before I seen that a machine was going to have to be used and carefully.
Sorry for the quality of the picture, Got my polishing pad out and my 7424XP set on slow speed with about 10 lbs. pressure. And I was starting to make some progress and looked alittle better, maybe I can correct this. If I don't go through the clear! Being very easy with this hood and takin my time!
Standing back alittle to capture a 50/50 shot. I still don't know how I got it to this condition! Yeah I do, Thanks Meguiars!
Close-up of the 50/50 shot.
Removed all the dead clear coat or contaminates, now time to go in with the M205 and a polishing pad and see about removing the swirls and scratches.
Now after I went over the hood a couple times (still very worried about maybe going through clear!) with M205 and a polishing pad slow speed and light pressure, letting the product, pad and machine do their thing! Just wanting to clear up the light swirls and bring some gloss and clarity back with a little reflection.
Selfie
I first did a test spot on the hood and then after I found my process, jumped to the headlights. That's why the pics don't go together but didn't want to jump around with pics.
And the headlight's are just as bad as the hood was, Yellowed and hazed pretty bad.
Close-up.
I didn't have to much time on this one so I just take the picture after my 2 step with M105 & M205. They did turn out pretty good!
Showing a 50/50 between driver side and passenger.
Both completed and ready to have 2) coats of Merguiars headlight protection applied.
After headlight & hood correction, went over the rest of the body with D151 Paint Reconditioning Cream, Tires & wheel wells dressed with D170 Hyper Dressing
Side Reflection shot.
Close up of Rear Wheels & Tires.
Thanks for looking.
I looked at the headlights and they was in pretty rough shape as well, I told the lady I could correct the headlights were she could see better and would be safer driving at night but from the feel and looks of the hood I didn't promise anything and told her I just really didn't know if there was anything I could do but I would try a couple things.
Here's the hood and taped off for a test spot.
Here's a close-up.
The first test I did was with Ultimate Compound by hand and worked in pretty good for about a minute before I seen that a machine was going to have to be used and carefully.
Sorry for the quality of the picture, Got my polishing pad out and my 7424XP set on slow speed with about 10 lbs. pressure. And I was starting to make some progress and looked alittle better, maybe I can correct this. If I don't go through the clear! Being very easy with this hood and takin my time!
Standing back alittle to capture a 50/50 shot. I still don't know how I got it to this condition! Yeah I do, Thanks Meguiars!
Close-up of the 50/50 shot.
Removed all the dead clear coat or contaminates, now time to go in with the M205 and a polishing pad and see about removing the swirls and scratches.
Now after I went over the hood a couple times (still very worried about maybe going through clear!) with M205 and a polishing pad slow speed and light pressure, letting the product, pad and machine do their thing! Just wanting to clear up the light swirls and bring some gloss and clarity back with a little reflection.
Selfie
I first did a test spot on the hood and then after I found my process, jumped to the headlights. That's why the pics don't go together but didn't want to jump around with pics.
And the headlight's are just as bad as the hood was, Yellowed and hazed pretty bad.
Close-up.
I didn't have to much time on this one so I just take the picture after my 2 step with M105 & M205. They did turn out pretty good!
Showing a 50/50 between driver side and passenger.
Both completed and ready to have 2) coats of Merguiars headlight protection applied.
After headlight & hood correction, went over the rest of the body with D151 Paint Reconditioning Cream, Tires & wheel wells dressed with D170 Hyper Dressing
Side Reflection shot.
Close up of Rear Wheels & Tires.
Thanks for looking.
Test Hoods Are Cheap And Most Of The Time Free
and in this case it was Ultimate Polish that helped out where M205 was alittle too aggressive! Go figure.
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