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Dave KG · 06-19-06, 02:40

First off, the car was washed. I used Meguiars Hyper Wash (still used the two bucket method despite the marring already present on the car, purely out of force of habbit!), diluted 400:1 as directed. This did a good job of shifting the muck from the car, and I repeated the wash a second time and this cheered the car up a little more... The car was dired using Meguiars Water Magnets.

Next up was the claying. The car had what appeared to be ingrained tree sap all over the flat panels and through the small piece of celephane the paint felt like the Rocky Mountains!! I would have used Meguiars Agressive (red) clay on this car but had none left so I went for the Meguiars Mild Detailer clay (yellow). I was surprised by the amount of gunk this clay was shifting and for a mild clay was doing a great job of restoring a smooth finish to the paint. Meguiars Last Touch was used as the lubricant. Here's a pic of the clay after just one third of the bonnet!!

With the car clayed, it was time to sort out the paintwork! With thickness reading ranging from 70um to 120um (and over 400um on a repaired and recently sprayed area), I decided that agressive compounds like Menzerna PGC were a definite no no. To deal with the oxidisation, I would have though the Klasse AIO would possibly have sufficed on its own, but for the swilr marks something with a little abbrassive bite would be required. I decided to go with Poorboys SSR2.5 over the whole car, applied by 6" Lake Country orange light cutting pad and the 4" Lake Country orange pad on small areas. The SSR2.5 was spread with no presure by PC on speed 3, then one pass at speed 5 with medium pressure over the head moving the head at roughly 1"/sec. Then a final pass at speed 6, increased pressure a little more and again moving the head at 1"/sec. The residue was then wiped away with a Meguiars Ultimate Wipe (cheers Bryan! :thumb: ). This was followed by an application of Klasse AIO, spread on speed 6 and then given two passes at speed 5 with light to medium pressure. The AIO residue was also buffed away with a Meguiars Ultimate Wipe. This brought the red paint back to life nicely...

First off, the roof was tackled with the above technique, the half and half shots:

and some completed shots of the roof showing the red paint restored and gloss returned:

06-19-06, 02:40	#2 (permalink)
Dave KG Flying Scotsman Dave KG is offline Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Dundee, Bonnie Scotland Posts: 987	First off, the car was washed. I used Meguiars Hyper Wash (still used the two bucket method despite the marring already present on the car, purely out of force of habbit!), diluted 400:1 as directed. This did a good job of shifting the muck from the car, and I repeated the wash a second time and this cheered the car up a little more... The car was dired using Meguiars Water Magnets. Next up was the claying. The car had what appeared to be ingrained tree sap all over the flat panels and through the small piece of celephane the paint felt like the Rocky Mountains!! I would have used Meguiars Agressive (red) clay on this car but had none left so I went for the Meguiars Mild Detailer clay (yellow). I was surprised by the amount of gunk this clay was shifting and for a mild clay was doing a great job of restoring a smooth finish to the paint. Meguiars Last Touch was used as the lubricant. Here's a pic of the clay after just one third of the bonnet!! With the car clayed, it was time to sort out the paintwork! With thickness reading ranging from 70um to 120um (and over 400um on a repaired and recently sprayed area), I decided that agressive compounds like Menzerna PGC were a definite no no. To deal with the oxidisation, I would have though the Klasse AIO would possibly have sufficed on its own, but for the swilr marks something with a little abbrassive bite would be required. I decided to go with Poorboys SSR2.5 over the whole car, applied by 6" Lake Country orange light cutting pad and the 4" Lake Country orange pad on small areas. The SSR2.5 was spread with no presure by PC on speed 3, then one pass at speed 5 with medium pressure over the head moving the head at roughly 1"/sec. Then a final pass at speed 6, increased pressure a little more and again moving the head at 1"/sec. The residue was then wiped away with a Meguiars Ultimate Wipe (cheers Bryan! :thumb: ). This was followed by an application of Klasse AIO, spread on speed 6 and then given two passes at speed 5 with light to medium pressure. The AIO residue was also buffed away with a Meguiars Ultimate Wipe. This brought the red paint back to life nicely... First off, the roof was tackled with the above technique, the half and half shots: and some completed shots of the roof showing the red paint restored and gloss returned: