X-treme Makeover - from a "RoAD waRRioR" to a "Street Dream"

zckid

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Hello friends! :)

sunny greetings from Mauritius :cool:

Welcome to another extreme makeover, a friend of mine, Kavin's Toyota Glanza. He had it re-sprayed and was told to wait for a couple of months before detailing. It came here as a work-in-progress, "wet-sanded without a sanding block" by Kavin himself. A few months back I introduced him to detailing including wet-sanding

Letting the pics do the talking:

On arrival:

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the little boss inspecting

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Wetsanding stains

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wheels were not spared

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Clear gone

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Washed using 2BM

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Claying, same for different sections

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Final rinse

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Close inspection of defects, action and transformation


Products n tools used:
  • Local car shampoo and MPC mix
  • BH regular clay
  • Optimum hypercompound, menz 203s and PO85rd
  • menz powerlock sealant
  • megs rubber and vinyl conditioner
  • Makita rotary and flex vrg
  • Carpro denim pads and LC white and black pads


The hood

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Clear coat strike in wet-sanding fury

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fun starts here

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close-up

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the roof

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Clear coat gone

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The headlights and front bumper area


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close-up

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a not so 50/50

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before

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now

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before

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The vertical sides


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close-up of textured paint

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look at this side

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now, same side

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the other side after

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Concept Car

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More finishing pics

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close-up

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happy owner leaving for a road trip with his transformed baby for a road trip along the sea.

thanks for watching, your thoughts and comments are most welcome.

cheers

Zaid
 
Very cool thread and excellent work! Thank you for sharing!! :) :rockon


thanks for encouragement Todd, in fact a double :thanks to you.

i had meticulously :inspector: your thread on using the car pro denim pad as an alternative to wet sanding.

However i used the denim pads to remove the sanding marks from the ride.

Learning from you since old TID days :yourrock
 
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