D151: Some experiments with

Re: D151: Some experiments with

Happy with the result and calmed down I went to local Starbucks to unwind with cup of coffee. There I came across one of guys that regularly hang out in front. His car is not in best of shapes but it is his, he loves it and is proud of it, and I can respect that. His car is also single stage red. Encouraged with how D151 performed on my car I offered to him that we do a test spot on his car to see will it help any (and promise to give him a bottle if I end up buying a gallon). Result of 5 minutes on it is below. It was not a miracle but it was an improvement that made him very very happy (he says body shop told him the other day they can not make his car look shiny without repainting it, and he is barely making ends meet), so there will be a bottle with his name on it once I get some D151. Here is a picture:

People sometimes do dumb things. Very very dumb things. Even when they know better. And I am not an exception to that rules.

So last weekend I took one of my cars for a spin and when I returned back place where I park was used. Not a big deal, I temporarily parked elsewhere with intention to little bit later repark. Thing is I got carried away, completely forgot about it (don't ask me how and why) and did not get back to it until this weekend, week later.

Only problem with that was that car was parked under the tree. Even more, it is a pine tree. I don't have to tell you how car looked like when I returned back, covered all over in thousands of sap droplets. I will just say I was very very unhappy with myself.

Body solvent was taking care of sap but paint (Toyota single stage red from '91) was less than shiny. It looked beat, dried, oxidized, and horribly neglected.

Of course detail should be able to take care of it but I was not in position to break out the machine (plus number of areas on that car can not be done by machine, they have to be done by hand) and at the same time I couldn't bring myself to walk away without at least trying a test spot to calm myself down and assure myself everything will be OK.

So while I was looking at the car it occured to me it looks the way perfect candidate for D151 would, one in bad need for quick revival. So I went home and grabbed bottle of D151 Mike (what do you mean with "which Mike"?) gratiously let me leave for home with the other night.

So I went for it and did it not following official instructions on purpose (so please do not do what I did, please follow official instructions). I used it by hand and under the sun because I wanted to see what it will do for me when desperate times call for desperate measures.

It performed (for me). I was left with paint that nobody would have guessed looked completely opposite bit earlier, it actually looked better than number of the cars out there. I took picture of result but this is a best I could take, I don't know will it be able to tell you anything:

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