Red Miata

**Gen2** · 06-19-2006, 07:28 AM

This car let me learned a very big lesson on filler product this is used on cars. This MX5 is about 1 year plus old and when the owner collected the car from the dealer, he came straight down to let me take a look at the car. Under bright sunlight, I can see some very minor swirls on the bonnet and the body of the car. Knowing that it came straight from the dealer, I am not surprised that the dealer used filler product to hide some of the swirls and minor scratches, so I believed there were more defects on the paint work as compare to what I saw.

2 weeks later when the car came for the detailing session, I almost fainted upon seeing the paint condition on the car. There were lots of swirls and hologram all over the car. I expected something worse but not that bad. It really surprised me how effective a filler product can work on a car and it really worked wonders on this car when I saw it 2 weeks ago. In my mind I was wondering what filler product did the dealer used, it really worked very well in hiding all the swirls and hologram.

Immediately I get started off with the work and hereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s the process I took to remove the defects,

1) wash with JW Autobody Wash

2) Clay with JW claybar

3) Power Gloss + cutting pad + rotary @ 1500rpm certain areas

4) Power Gloss + cutting pad + DA @ speed 5

5) PO106FF + polishing pad + DA @ speed 4.5

And here are the before and after photos,

Before

After

Before

After

After this I applied Prime Carnauba with a MF applicator pad working panel by panel to finish up the whole car. Then followed by Acrylic Jett applied with a plush MF towel and WOW did the car turned out super WET.

**Gen2** · 06-19-2006, 07:30 AM

After the above 2 shots, the batteries in my camera went totally flat and I was feeling so mad because the sun was almost setting. Went off to get new batteries and by the time I came back for the photo shots, the sun was almost gone. The photos still turned out great but you can definitely see some difference with and without light.

Round 2

Couple of close-up shots

As you can see from the reflection of the last shot, the street lamps had already turned on and it was getting too dark for photo taking anymore.

**SayNoToPistons** · 06-19-2006, 07:32 AM

thats wet indeed!! do those rims come stock in singapore?

**klnyc** · 06-19-2006, 08:09 AM

Amazing wet!

**gmblack3** · 06-19-2006, 08:20 AM

OMG!

Interesting combo with the carnuba prime and AJ. Where you out of regular prime? Regardless it looks great!

**Gen2** · 06-20-2006, 08:11 AM

Hey guys thanks for the comments

another qx4 - The rims you saw in the pictures come stock in Singapore.

gmblack3a - I did not run out of the regular Prime, I was just wondering will Prime Carnauba help to make the car looks wetter and after trying out, IMO Prime Carnauba does give a slightly wetter look as compare to the regular Prime.