Black 06 M45 - hardest paint ever, by far!

[tdekany]

Full paint correction was the order of this detail.

I assumed when I looked at the car last sunday that 14 to 16 hours would do the trick. HA!

2 of us worked from 10:30 am Saturday until 7am Sunday morning. We did take 2 pretty short breaks to eat.

Here is the story:

Me and Cleaning fool gave the car an ONR wash

We both clayed it with a clay magic bar - this is just from the small trunk




Next we taped everything off.





Now it was time to take a closer look at what we were really dealing with - once you open the hood and read that baby sign inside that says: HARD CLEAR, boy they really meant HARD CLEAR - everything you ever experienced is out the door. (at least in my case)

[tdekany]

After taking pictures, I thought maybe I should see the thickness just in case. This was one of the higher numbers, except for the hood, that was "normal" with numbers in the 120s - 130s. Also the left rear fender was better where howareb sanded a bit.





We are starting to make some progress









HARD WORK ALWAYS PAYS OFF - HOW ABOUT SOME 50/50?






I MEAN REAL 50/50!!!




SAY WHAT????

[Evolution IX]

WOW, I am blown away. That is awesome work!

[tdekany]

Thanks to howareb, this is how we do it in NoVa - not missing an inch! What up DJ?????




105 working hard or hardly working?????

[tdekany]

At this point (6:30am Sunday morning) I just want to go home but I had to take a few finished pictures for AUTOPIA. Sorry no outside or sun shots, but it was very cold!!!!!

I know some people will think that the swirls were not really removed and that they will be back in a few months, but at least until then, try to enjoy these pictures.

[Lumadar]

Looks absolutely awesome. Gotta love freshly and properly polished out black paint...

So what was the process, and what were the products aside from M105 and PFW?

[Pats300zx]

Amazing job Thomas. Looks like it was a marathon on this one.

[BigAl3]

excellent thomas! thanks for sharing...

[NavindraLR]

I stopped posting, and just troll around for the most part, but after seeing this I had to comment. Sick job!!!

[dsms]

First of all great shop! And what a fantastic correction job... talk about RIDS, my word! Excellent job all around, the PFW on the Flex is a nice combo too. I remember Bob from AC did a black M45 and he said the cc was impossibly sticky. Guess Infinity paints are unpredictable. Oh well, again super job and those are some mighty impressive 50/50's, I'd put those in a nice portfolio book to show to prospective customers.

Lots of = result

[Premium]

Thats probably one of my favorite cars! Nice work!!

[Slow_racer]

WOW! great turnaround.