Okay, so we've been busy the last week or two, but haven't been good about taking pictures. Today though, John and I were asked to correct the paint on a Grey 2004 Ford Mustang Mach I. This is the SECOND Mach I we've corrected for Bavarian Trade. The first one was white and SUPERCHARGED! Though this particular Mach I was stock, and came with lots of swirls and scratches, we were pretty impressed with the outcome. So without further ado, ON TO THE PROCESS AND PICS!!!
Process:
- Wash via ONR, dried with Absorber (Yes, we're trying to go green and ONR ROCKS!!)
- Corrected with
M95 on LC
Hydro-tech Tangerine (On Griot's DA) and Cyan (On
Flex DA) then followed up with M82 on
Hydro-tech Orange pads via Griot's and
Flex DA.
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Headlights were fixed with an expensive little number John purchased as a kit, he'll pop in and fill in the name.
- LSP was
Wolfgang High Gloss Paint Sealant 3.0.
- Wheels, tires and wheel-wells were cleaned with a light degreaser/car shampoo/aluminum brightner mixture and aggitated with various brushes.
- Tires were dressed with
Meg's Endurance Tire Gel (Best stuff in the WORLD afaic.)
Okay, so this car was NOT easy...we had issues removing both the
M95 and M82 and certain painted plastic pieces just were NOT allowing us to remove the products we were using to correct the paint. We eventually found that the M82 on the
Flex would allow us to correct and remove the product, but since my rotary was in my broken down car...we couldn't fully test to see if we could get better results outside of the DAs we both use.
BEFORES:
First pics (LOTS) are of the swirls and scratches in the paint. Some of the scratches we COULD NOT remove. They were just too deep.
So yeah, the paint was VERY swirled everywhere, though not in bad shape overall, just hard to work with.
The decal was pretty badly scratched up, but M82 on LC
Hydro-tech Tangerine did a pretty good job of cleaning them up and restoring a bit of the murky darkness in the afters.
Both
headlights had AIDS, but this one was the "good" one...
Roof, badly swirled.
These trunklid scratche didn't come fully out as they were all very deep and past a point where the DAs could correct them.
The next photo is the ledge on top of the rear bumper where the trunklid opens. Most of the defects came out but the deepest scratches were just too much to completely remove.
I can't explain how much I hated these fake brake cooling cowls...they were a NIGHTMARE to correct and what frustrated us the most as anything we did to them would not allow us to remove the product residues completely.
Good from far...far from good though.
And that's it for the befores....now onto the beginning of the afters!!!
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