First quick attempt on this Mystic Blue 04 330i.
The defects are not horrible for 105k miles, but not very nice either. Now this is my first Mystic Blue, but most of the metallic colors from this era are usually pretty hard IME. If anyone else has found Mystic Blue to be on the softer side let us know.
Subject as it arrived:
Random defect shot:
Quick before shot of the rt side of the hood. Sorry that both are a bit distorted but I cropped them out:
After shot of the left side of the hood.
7" surbuf/old M105/PC6 1 pass
LC black/M205.PC4.5
I had spritz`d the surface lighly with water since I did not have any of the QD that Kevin used.
Even thought I pressed the pad into a MF after priming it appears that I had to much polish in the pad. So I followed Chris`s advice wiping the polish off after a few passes and going back at it without adding more polish.
I was watching the polish as I passed with the pad, it appeared that the fingers where laying down but not excessively.
You are using MUCH less pressure with the surbuf pad then an orange pad.
The surfaces looked pretty good after the M105 step, sorry no pic of that.
I got to get back to it as the client needs this car back tonight.
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