Buddy of mines grandam GT (lots of pics, maybe a few vids)

[coupe]

Me and AJ tried earlier in the year to set something up but it never happened because of lifes situations…………it happens.



2001 Grand Am GT



This vehicle was a thorn in my side. Unforseen problem after another.



Process

Wash, no 2 bucket method, no point.

Foam gun, optimum carwash, 1 bucket, old wash mitt, wasn’t gonna hurt it worse than it was with 1 improper wash.

No clay, owner clayed ahead of time, about 1 day before.



Rotary:

OHC/edge yellow wool/1500rpms

OHC/edge blue foam polishing pad



PC:

Danase Swirl Abolisher I/CCS white polishing pad/speed 5



Problem #1

I sprayed down the front end with stoners tarminator first Before washing, like I always do,

This is what happened with that:





After hitting it with a 4� pad and OHC at speed 5.





I have NEVER had that happen before. Easily cleaned up, just very weird.





Problem #2:

AJ said right away he wanted his pin stripe removed. No problem, done it a million times. This time I didn’t really inspect the finish like I should have. The entire driver side has been re-sprayed with clear coat. The problem was they sprayed OVER the pin stripe. To make matters worse when I started I started at the front driver side fender and all went well and quick. Then I got to the driver side door. At this point I realized that the whole door had been repainted. I could see the indents of the pin stripe. At this point I stopped what I was doing and inspected the rest of that side. Sure enough, the whole side was repainted, but with clear only. That’s what was weird, very weird. The driver side door, driver side rear door and quarter panel was re-sprayed with clear. But just clear, they didn’t wetsand and buff out. Good old quicky, cheapy paint jobs.

[coupe]

Lets do some before and afters:

Driver side before door:





After:





Rear ¼ panel, test spot:







The hood got the edge2K yellow wool medium cut pad @ about 1500rpm with OHC

Edge2K blue pad @ about 1500rpm with OHC then….



PC

Danase Swirl Abolisher I @ speed 5











Me hitting it with the wool:





If someone could host this vid it would be much better:





Me hitting it with OHC and edg2k blue pad, If someone could host this vid it would be much better:





After in the garage:









Driver side fender before (crappy pic):

[coupe]

Driver side fender after:





My full after shots blow. I relied on my brother to take them and that was a mistake……

[Ajaxus]

w00t! finally put the thread up



yeah, that stuff on the front bumper didn`t show up until after the tarminator was sprayed on, until that point i didn`t know it was there. we think it may have been concrete from a little incident i had early in the summer (some bag dropped off a truck..leaving a THICK white cloud..it was fun we`ll leave it at that)..was fun to remove anyways. why it wasn`t visible until that point though..beyond me.

[BobD]

Looks great Coupe!

[BLKSWAN]

you did a great job coupe...nice recovery

[2KLS1]

That color looks crazy under the halogens.

[99blackSE]

Very nice Coupe! You must be getting a little tired of doing these cars heh.

[Ajaxus]

^^I thought I saw you floating around on these boards, lol

[Scottwax]

Nice work, amazing afters under the halogens, especially with what you had to work with. :goodjob

[coupe]

Whoops forgot to mention my LSP.



Long hual polish/wax (AIO)

DG AW