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    PowerGloss never ceases to amaze me. Today I used it on a customer`s black Lexus with a rotary and a firm polishing pad. This combination removed 98% of the defects (and this vehicle was HAMMERED) and barely left any rotary holograms, allowing me to finish with #9 and a white propel pad with the rotary. PG saves me an entire polishing step - with any other heavy compound I usually have two follow with two polishing steps.



    I used my camera phone to take some pictures for the first time. I will try to post some pictures below (also first time).



    Here is a picture of the trunk before I compounded...also note the wet sanding marks where there was rust I could not clay out:







    Trying again...here is apicture of the trunk after PG and #9





    Oh yeah, I didn`t take any photos after it was waxed, only after polishing. I put a coat of FMJ on and returned to customer - he said he is going to take some pics in the morning, but it will be sitting outside all night

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    Why wont the picture show up here? I have a picture saved in my member gallerly...



    This is what I did, only without the spaces:



    [img] http://autopia.org/gallery/showphoto...0&ppuser=24697 [/img]



    What`s wrong here?

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    I love Menzerna Powergloss...dusts quite a bit but what good compound doesnt. Leaves a very nice finish for being a compound.
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    Yeah, it does dust alot. A worthwhile tradeoff however, IMO. On the lexus today, I absolutely could not believe it - with a single, "concentrated" compounding using a LC white polishing pad (the ones from PakShak) I was able to remove at least 95% of all scratches on a customer`s black vehicle that was scratched to hell and back. This amount of defect removal usually takes a 3-step polish process with wool. I love Lexus paint, the white LC concave pads, PG, and IP (without these, details would take me hours longer). The lexus came out perfect, much better than I would have ever expected. Hard to tell from the camera phone pics...but this was one of the best "reconditionings" I`ve ever done...hardly a trace of a scratch left.



    One of the doors had actually been repainted at some point and was much less cooperative with regard to removing all the defects.

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    You should get a decent camera, record your process and steps, then enter some cars in the Exreme detail contests
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    I could do that. But I need to figure out how to post a picture first.











    Above I have the following (without the *):

    [img]http://autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=17589&size=big&ppuser=24697[*/img]



    Why is it not working for me? I went into my gallerery, right clicked on the image, clicked "copy shortcut" and then pasted it in as above.

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    If you take the * out of the last img tag it should work.



    Edit: OK, you need to right click the image and copy the "image address" and use that as your link. I get the following link from that picture.



    http://autopia.org/gallery/data/500/...der2after1.jpg
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    Okay. Thank you. I think I have it figured out now.



    Here is a picture of a bird dropping that I had to wetsand out.





    Picture of the dropping sanded:





    Trunk before (again, I had to sand some rust out]:





    Trunk after:





    Rear fender before:





    Front fender after (this picture was actually taken before polishing, right after compounding with PG!):





    Owner was blown away - looked bettter than when it was brand new. I told him that was because some lot monkeys had already washed it before he bought it...inducing scratches.

 

 

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