Almost Finished. Still need another day to FP and deal with the severely faded trim
The temperature was in the 90s but with the humidity it felt like 110. Menzera required almost consistent sprizting.
The car was a nightmare to do. 2 layers of swirls - under the clearcoat from a bad respray, looked like the painter had used a rotary with a wool pad to flatten out the previously failed clear coat but not followed up with a FF. On top of that, the newish clearcoat had severe swirls and RDS's.
This made it very difficult to know which layer of swirls I was working on. Only with a collection of oddly placed halogens was I able to separate the upper layer swirls from the lower. To make thing worse, the respray clearcoat was ROCK hard.
Process
Pre-wash and wash with Sonax Gloss
Eagle One A-Z Tyre cleaner with scrubbing brush
Clayed with Surluster Yellow and 1:5 Sonax Gloss/Water mix
Meg
Endurance tyre dressing - 2 coats top with EA2 Tyre dressing for better spread
Light wash to clean aftrer clay.
2000 grit wet sand - complete car
S34a with wool pad x 3
P091J with Ryobi Yellow cut pad ; 1-2 passes
PO85J with Ryobi Yellow 1 passes, then with Ryobi White Soft 1 pass
CG Paint cleanser
Fusio 9month sealant LSP
Lots of Key sctraches
Flat paint. Serve swirls under paint can be see at the top of the sun reflection
Under the halogen. Top layer of swirls can be seen. Also, can just make out the finer layer of swirls under the clearcoat.
On to wetsand. Had tried s34a with wool x 3 but not joy - rock hard clearcoat. used 2000 grit
Next, the bonnet, which was the worst of all. Deep RDS all over. I think the owner had tried to remove the swirls under the clearcoat with a compound and a towel. Wetsanded the entire bonnet plus RDS areas
After: The sun was setting and the lack of bright sunlight flatters the paint as it does not show the servely swirled paint under the clearcoat. It does show the work I did on the top clearcoat though.
Door after - 95% of key scratches removed but FF need as holograms still present from the wool pad
finally,
This car was a nightmare to do. Four days in total and still another day needed.
This is the first time Ive come across swirls under the clearcoat. If I see this again in any future jobs, I think I will decline the work. It just isnt worth doing.
OK the car looks a lot better, but in bright sunlight you can clearly see the swirls under the clear coat and worst of all, there's nothing i can do about it.
Live and learn.
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