This 1996 TT Porsche needed a good deal of paint correction, time wise. It wasn't super bad but it had several areas that were re-paint and would benefit in the future from a wet sanding.
I began right away with a LC wool (foamed) pad, OP and my Metabo. The paint corrected with hardly any fuss. Some areas I hit with a OP/105 mixture and also Hi-Temp's Extreme.
I begin almost all my details now with lambs wool or the LC foam wool. It just levels down the paint and leaves only whisper type buffer trails behind.
Here is the paint condition prior to the No-Rinse washing.
I don't have a picture of it but even the clear bra had buffer swirls in it. Someone really worked this paint over in all the wrong ways.
After the wool pad correction step I then used a combo of a green medium polishing/cutting pad and a white LC polishing pad with Optimum Polish. Those 2 steps plus all the taping ended my first day pretty much. The next day Ron joined me and together we went about going over the paint with a black finishing pad and OP and then a white finishing pad and FPII.
We took it out into the sun and I was not pleased at all with how the finish was as we had some streaking issues plus some deep random scratches, so back into the shop it went for another round of polish work. I tried getting out the deeper stuff with Meguairs 105 and a wool pad but even that did very little for them so I gave up that pursuit and went about a Cyclo step and then hand rubbing the paint with Victoria's Cleansing Lotion. Ron then applied Opti-Seal to the paint and the interior was given a wipe down and vacuum.
While Ron applied the Opti-Seal I took a rotary to the wheels using an LC white pad with OP. The blades of the wheels were scratched up but that step really cleaned them up well.
The results were great.....even if we still had a few random scratches here and there, which I tried to capture in the AFTER shots but the skies were overcast and even though I kept the car outside for about 20 minutes the sun just wouldn't shine in all its glory.
Here is one BEFORE picture of the rear quarter panel.
Now here is an AFTER shot of the same area but at a different angle, which stinks because I wanted to try and get the same shot.
OK, here's the rest of them.
Some more pictures..........notice here on the better picture of the right rear quarter some of the deeper random scratches still left in the paint. These may have to be wet sanded next time I polish the paint but still a great improvement from the original condition.
Anthony
regarding Anthony Orosco's work here..]
Besides always appreciating your work, it's good to hear about changes to your regimens (the PFW pads are great, huh?).
That yellow made for a great example!
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