07 white camry paint correction (very bad)

**Time 2 shine** · 08-29-2011, 10:15 PM

This camry belongs to my mother and about a week ago i offered to wash it for her ( it was really dirty and i cant let my mom roll like that). Anyway once i had cleaned it the results where not what i had expected, very dull and almost a none reflected surface on most horizontal panels and continued down the vertical panels that were still pretty bad, but not as bad.This needed to be fixed so i told her to let me have the car for the weekend so here goes my process and tools used.

Car was washes using two bucket method and grit guards with dawn concentrate and optimum car wash. A third bucket with optimum car wash was used along with megs APC 10:1 to clean all door jams. Megs APC 5:1 on tires and wheel wells. Car was then dried with Microfiber HD guzzler and then pulled into the garage. Clayed with blue magic fine clay with 3oz of ONR in a 32oz bottle and rest filled with water as clay lube.Car was then taped up where necessary with 3m blue painters tape.

Starting with least aggressive i worked my way up to using a LC Purple foamed wool pad with M105. Although the LC orange pad worked well the PFW pad was correcting more RIDS but it didn`t really show up well on camera. After compounding i did a IPA wipe down (wanted to wash but it was rainning out). Polishing was then done with M205 on a white pad
and then wash and dried before applying a coat of BFWD with a black pad. Opti bond tire gel diluted 1:1 was applied to the tires using a yellow applicator pad.

All work was done with my Flex 3401 a 4 3/8 backing plate and 5.5 inch pads. Compounding was done on speed 6 and polishing on 4-5. I finished just as the sun was going down so i didnt get any good ones in the sun but you get the idea. Trust me its night and day difference.

M105 orange pad left side and M105 PFW pad right side

roof

Door panel

Snapped a few pictures as the sun was going down.

**Old Pirate** · 08-29-2011, 10:29 PM

Great work on the Toyota there Time 2 shine

**Rocket** · 08-29-2011, 10:44 PM

Great work! I can`t believe it looked so bad for an 07. You really cleaned that thing up. I bet your mom was excited once she saw how good it looked

**MarcHarris** · 08-30-2011, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Rocket

Great work! I can`t believe it looked so bad for an 07. You really cleaned that thing up. I bet your mom was excited once she saw how good it looked

+1
Amazing turn around for a 4 year old vehicle. Especially awesome to get such great pics on white. Nice turn around!

**mshu7** · 08-30-2011, 11:29 AM

Lookin good! Single stage white I take it? I can`t figure out why Toyota & Honda still use SS paint.

**RTexasF** · 08-30-2011, 12:57 PM

It is indeed single stage. Nice work and I know Mom is proud of her "new" ride and her detailer.

**Addicted2Bling** · 08-30-2011, 05:17 PM

Great work, that car was in horrible shape

**Time 2 shine** · 08-30-2011, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by Rocket

Great work! I can`t believe it looked so bad for an 07. You really cleaned that thing up. I bet your mom was excited once she saw how good it looked

Thanks.. Yeah she was pretty happy.

Originally Posted by zoomzoom mazda5

Great work on the Toyota there Time 2 shine

Thanks

Originally Posted by MarcHarris

+1
Amazing turn around for a 4 year old vehicle. Especially awesome to get such great pics on white. Nice turn around!

Thanks... White`s hard to capture on my crappy camera. A lot of the other pictures i took didn`t turn out so well.

Originally Posted by mshu7

Lookin good! Single stage white I take it? I can`t figure out why Toyota & Honda still use SS paint.

Thanks.. Yep single stage it is, I imagine its cheaper.

Originally Posted by RTexasF

It is indeed single stage. Nice work and I know Mom is proud of her "new" ride and her detailer.

Thanks man....She said to me "It looks so nice i dont want to drive it and get it dirty".

Originally Posted by Addicted2Bling

Great work, that car was in horrible
shape

Thanks... I couldn`t believe how bad it looked when I threw it under some halogens...

**opie_7afe** · 09-01-2011, 08:14 PM

i bet that`s super white II paint..stuffs some hard paint to buff out...at least with white you don`t see scratches easy....

**Todd@RUPES** · 09-02-2011, 07:32 AM

Wow, great turnaround!!! Nice documentation as well, thank you for sharing and letting us read.

**Bobcat** · 09-02-2011, 01:43 PM

Looks great, now keep hitting it with BFWD every 2 months and it will stay that way!

**BobbyG** · 09-02-2011, 06:27 PM

Very nice save on that Toyota!

My wife has an XLE Camry and I`m not all that impressed with the paint at all. It seems somewhat soft and scratches easily. Regardless of what product I use its durability is limited to 2 months maximum.

For winter I might strip it, clay the entire car, give it a once over with a paint cleaner, then add 2 coats of Klasse High Gloss Sealant then top it with something like Collinite 845.

I have some Element 119 but really don`t want to waste it on the Camry...

**Old Pirate** · 09-02-2011, 06:33 PM

My wife`s 03 Toyota is a single stage Super White and always needs a compound and polishing every year. She`s always on the go and have been hard to get a hold of the car for work.

**Time 2 shine** · 09-02-2011, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by BobbyG

Very nice save on that Toyota!

My wife has an XLE Camry and I`m not all that impressed with the paint at all. It seems somewhat soft and scratches easily. Regardless of what product I use its durability is limited to 2 months maximum.

For winter I might strip it, clay the entire car, give it a once over with a paint cleaner, then add 2 coats of Klasse High Gloss Sealant then top it with something like Collinite 845.

I have some Element 119 but really don`t want to waste it on the Camry...

I was thinking about doing the 845 on top of 2 coats of BFWD. I currently do not own any 845 but it`s on my wish list for the next order before winter time.