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09-27-05, 07:55
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tdekany is offline
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Fairfax Virginia Posts: 6,319 | Today's black SS Lexus took 8 hours
This car is 10 years old.
This detail actually took almost a full year. First the weather was way too cold and I gave up on the exterior last winter. This summer on a very hot day the paint ended up being too hot and even pwc messed up the paint.
So finally today I was able work on the paint in our garage with a 1000w light 
[b]Here is a before picture that doesn't look half bad]/B]  Now if one really looks at the paint one sees this all over the car plus tons of scretches that didn't want to come out, no matter what I did.   
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09-27-05, 07:59
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tpdetail is offline
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 64 | so where are the afters?
what was your process? was this paint in particular harder? I dont see why a rotary and some wool or foam cutting couldnt get the job dne. | |
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09-27-05, 08:05
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tdekany is offline
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Fairfax Virginia Posts: 6,319 | Process: nxt wash
DP clay
ssr2.5/rotary/1500rpm/ended up using LC white pads (both 6" & 7.5")
ssr2/pc white pad
ssr1/pc black pad
pwc/pc black pad
DP Max Wax/pc white pad
FK1 tire shine
As far as I could see, 99% of the swirls are gone, but most deep scretches didn't come out.
Tried green, orange pads, FK1's medium compound but besides the white pad everything else created too many new swirls and didn't get rid of scretches. O well.
Few after pictures.    
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09-27-05, 08:08
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tdekany is offline
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Fairfax Virginia Posts: 6,319 | PS: ssr2.5 2 to 3 passes - took over 4 hours - I am ashamed. 
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09-27-05, 08:11
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 64 | wowsers...i usually do just 1 pass of 2.5 on a foam cutting pad. edge2k yellow. then i follow up with someting equivalent tossr 2 on a green polishing pad via rotary, and after that a mild polishs makes everyhing 99 percent good. | |
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09-27-05, 08:17
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tdekany is offline
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Fairfax Virginia Posts: 6,319 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tpdetail wowsers...i usually do just 1 pass of 2.5 on a foam cutting pad. edge2k yellow. then i follow up with someting equivalent tossr 2 on a green polishing pad via rotary, and after that a mild polishs makes everyhing 99 percent good. | This particular paint may not be part of "everything".
I read about someone on DC who had the same issues with the same type/color car. 
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09-27-05, 10:42
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Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 1,058 | Thats a 100% improvement  . Nice gloss and reflections too.
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09-28-05, 03:56
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Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Winnipeg, Canada Posts: 2,261 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tdekany This particular paint may not be part of "everything".
I read about someone on DC who had the same issues with the same type/color car. | 'Yup. 
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09-28-05, 07:39
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Join Date: May 2005 Location: Boca Raton (FAU) Posts: 3,268 | Looks great, maybe Powergloss would have saved some time? I would suggest trying PG/yellow followed by OCP/green next time you see a car that bad.
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09-28-05, 08:27
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JJ_ is offline
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 594 | Does scottwax not do a lexus SS often?
It looks excellent, lexus black is one of my fav's!! | |
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09-28-05, 08:48
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Washington, D.C. Posts: 1,760 | Looks great! Lexus SS may be a PITA but it sure does clean up good.
I've done a few of them and I've always found that they polish out pretty easily, odd it was so difficult...
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03 Lexus ES300 Black Garnet Pearl/Black Interior
Current instruments of obsession: Poorboys SSR2, SSR1, PWC, EX-P and Meg's #16!
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09-28-05, 12:48
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Join Date: May 2004 Location: Honolulu, HI Posts: 1,463 | wow, awesome improvement! nice job.
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2004 Azure Blue Ford Mustang Mach1
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