Hyundai Azera - Round 2

[mose]

So I was never really happy with the way this car turned out the first time I did it.



http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag/93088-hyundai-azera.html?highlight=azera



So I called the guy on a weekend that I didn`t have any other details to do to ask if I could take another crack at it. He agreed and dropped it off Saturday morning. I felt that, last time, I was too aggressive with the polishing due to the paint being very similar to warm butter!



I tried Menz 106ff with a white CCS pad. It was pulling the swirling out but was still leaving some micromarring behind. So I tried KAIO w/white CCS and it worked perfect! It pulled all the swirls out, left nothing behind but a clean finish.



I topped one side of the hood with P21S just to see how it looked. I went "old school" on the other side and used Megs #16. Megs was the clear winner here! It finished better, it didn`t leave any swirling behind from the removal and looked a lot deeper than the P21S.



So my process ended up being:

Polished w/KAIO w/white CCS

Topped w/#16

Wiped down interior w/Megs UQD

Polished glass w/KAIO and topped w/#16

Wheels were cleaned and polished w/Mothers Chrome Polish



http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera09.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera10-1.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera07.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera08.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera01.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera02.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera03.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera04.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera05.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera06.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera11-1.jpg

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/mose1117/HyundaiAzera12-1.jpg

[mr.ikon]

Nice work Mose. That thing is deep and wet.

[Smoked Tails]

I didn`t see your first post on this car, but it looks great this time around. Good job.

[Bigpoppa3346]

Nice work. Interesting that you found the KAIO to remove the swirls. I have seen similar results in terms of micromarring removal on soft black clear with KAIO, too.



What was on that car? Leftover ash?

[imported_Bence]

Why interesting? KAIO contains 1 micron abrasives, and it is not just a chemical cleaner as most people think.

[mose]

Thanks for the comments guys.



BigPoppa: The car doesn`t get driven much and he lives in an apartment complex so it`s always dusty. The ash from the fires in hundreds of miles south of us.

[3wide]

wow kiao took out all the swrils, cool! what speed setting did you use? did you treat the application of kiao just like it was a polish, as far as pressure and feed?



:2thumbs:

[mose]

I used speed 6 on the PC. I usually go about an inch per second when correction is needed/with mulitiple passes. The CC on this car is ridiuclously soft. Any time at all in the same place and you are going to get micromarring. I moved a little faster than normal with the PC and it worked out really well! Pressure was about the same as well...just moved a little faster.



Like Bence said, KAIO has 1 micorn abrasives and that was obvisouly enough for this car. Probably wouldn`t work on the majority of the cars out there.....but it worked nicley for this application!!