Gen 5 Accord Detail

[Tasty]

I ran out of daylight to get all the after pics I wanted, but here are some of the nasty before pics. This was easily the worst car exterior I`ve ever worked on. Clearcoat failure all over the place so I pretty much gave up polishing because it honestly wasn`t worth the effort. Sap piles everywhere, and numerous horrible touch up spots where the owner has run into things. Some spots were easily an inch wide by 5 inches long painted with the little finger polish touch up brush and just left to dry. Interior was much easier than I expected. Here was the process, after shots coming soon.



Wash with Meguiar`s Gold Class

Clay with Clay Magic

Polish major blemishes with SSR 2.5 on yellow Propel via PC at speed 5

Door pillars and plastic restored with AIO

Side and rocker trim with Back to Black

Gold Class Liquid via black Propel on PC speed 3



Befores



http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Trunk_Scum_2.JPG

Nice surprise in the trunk area, it surrounded the whole weatherstrip



http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Door_pillar.JPG

Door pillar with AIO, obvious before and after



After of Trunk



http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Accord_Trunk_Complete.JPG

The dull areas are the dead clearcoat areas

[pontman43]

Took a while for me to decifer (sp?) the first pic. Looks like fun! ;)

[HighFidelity]

i got a question about those door pillars. are those really painted? or just black plastic. mine are faded too and i was wondering the best way to bring them back to life

[Tasty]

I think they are painted. The black area on the rear doors is a plastic insert, but I think the pillars are painted. I used Klasse AIO by hand and it worked great. Especially on the rear doors, it was amazing.

[jnmttu]

i got a question about those door pillars. are those really painted? or just black plastic. mine are faded too and i was wondering the best way to bring them back to life



They are painted on mine. Just be very careful, it is extremely thin paint.

[Tasty]

Yeah, I had to back off a little because it actually seemed like I was going through the paint. Not sure if there was just that much bad paint on there, or if I actually was.

[Scottwax]

:eek: Ugh. How can someone let an Accord get that bad? They run forever, makes good sense to take care of the cosmetics too.



Looks like you did what you could-any more pics?

[Tasty]

I`m hopefully gonna get some after pics tomorrow. Haven`t been able to with the wife at work and baby keepin` me busy.

[SpoiledMan]

After of Trunk



http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/medium/Accord_Trunk_Complete.JPG

The dull areas are the dead clearcoat areas



Do the dull parts extend down the sides also or just on top?

[pontman43]

Yeah, I had to back off a little because it actually seemed like I was going through the paint. Not sure if there was just that much bad paint on there, or if I actually was.

Try some P21s or S100 to get the shine out. Worked on my 92 Accord`s with no polishing.