Black 1987 911 correction & coating - Pinnacle Auto Detail - CT

**PinnacleAutoCT** · 03-13-2017, 07:43 PM

This 1987 911 was bought as a daily driver and was in need of some serious TLC. The car was fully repainted in 1994 with bc/cc, and appeared to have been wetsanded and polished at some point based on the very minimal orange peel. Though the car had a decent shine to begin with, the paint showed moderate-heavy marring and deeper RIDS under intensive lighting. The paint was also very rough in a way that indicated it had probably been parked near someone`s paint project and accumulated some overspray. The goal here was to remove 80%+ of the defects to amp up the shine and depth, then apply a coating to make maintenance much easier. I unfortunately didn`t get any full-car pics in the beginning due to my camera dying, so the before pics are mainly close-ups of the paint under LED lighting.

Before:

This is the driver`s side fender. Here you can really tell that the paint hadn`t been polished or properly cared for in quite some time:

Further down on this same fender you can see some vertical RIDS:

The marring continued on the hood and other panels:

The top panel of the front bumper showed a decent amount of deeper defects:

At first I was concerned that our initial plan of a one-step correction wouldn’t work due to the severity of the defects. However, after testing some polish/pad combos I realized that the paint was only moderately hard and responded well to a mixture of D300 and HD Polish on Lake Country black finishing pads (w/the Rupes 21 MKII). The result of that process was this 50/50:

At least 80% of the defects were removed with this combo, but in some areas there was some remaining micromarring, so a quick refining pass was done with CarPro Essence on LC black pads.

After:

Here you can see that the paint actually had a small amount of metallic flake that wasn`t visible in its early swirled-up condition:

The hood corrected well but was still peppered with tiny pockmarks from road debris:

In this shot you can see what a nice, un-distorted reflection this paint had once polished correctly. There really was almost no orange peel to be seen:

As you can see, the end result easily met our target of 80% correction, and adding 22ple to the corrected paint resulted in some great gloss. Thanks for looking, comments and questions are welcome!

**Mbkite** · 03-13-2017, 08:33 PM

Looking good I love old 911 great job..

**LEDetailng** · 03-13-2017, 09:54 PM

Wow! Great results and awesome car. Love the reflection and gloss. Great work and hopefully the owner keeps it looking this nice.

**WaxAddict** · 03-14-2017, 07:06 PM

Best job car good black shine USA (sorry I just got off the phone with HP tech support), um. yeah GREAT job, I bet the owner was thrilled. Those curves are tricky to polish.

**GearHead_1** · 03-14-2017, 08:07 PM

You should be proud.

**Sizzle Chest** · 03-14-2017, 08:23 PM

I`ll say it again: Great job!!! Car looks fantastic!

**rlmccarty2000** · 03-14-2017, 09:30 PM

Fine job on a repainted 911. You never know the quality of a repaint until you start on it. With the prices of 911s on the rise the owner may want to take better care of it now.

**felixthecat** · 03-14-2017, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by rlmccarty2000

Fine job on a repainted 911. You never know the quality of a repaint until you start on it. With the prices of 911s on the rise the owner may want to take better care of it now.

Oh for sure^^^ Wish I had one my old 911`s now.

**rlmccarty2000** · 03-14-2017, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by felixthecat

Oh for sure^^^ Wish I had one my old 911`s now.

I missed my chance to bring one back from Germany in 1989. They changed the laws on importing "gray market" cars a few months before I left. Now the prices are getting so outrageous I doubt I will ever own one.