imported_Grouse
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Where to start. Well I guess wash. 38* to start the day off. I dropped down to 28 by the time i left at 7 pm. It was snowing on the way home.
Overall the car had almost no swirling. the exceptions were around the hood emblem, roof, and verticals on the passenger rear. It did not have much depth, clarity, or color definition. The wheels had a fair amount of asphalt in them. The air boxes needed to be polished and sealed. Muffler can polished, titanium tips polished, etc.
Pre-wash pictures.
Wash photos. The car had been clayed with swisswax paint rubber. Using ONR QD strength as a lube.
Taped off. As you can see the Claying brought out a lot of gloss, I did not however do much for depth or for color definition.
This is after polishing. As i had mentioned there were few swirls, mostly it was wipe, rub, or scratching. I started out with 3m ultrafina on a blue pad. It did not have enough cut to remove the marring on the front. It also gave me a fair bit of chirping on the paint. I switched to 106 at 1000-1500-1000 and it improved greatly. The main areas with scratching and marring still remained. I stepped up to SIP green pad 1000-1500-1000 for those areas. That removed 98% of what could be removed. The rest i deemed needed 4k paper.
The car was then polished out with 106 white pad.
I only took two-3 pics of it polished out. Why, well by that point it was 5 pm, I did not have a whole bunch of time left.
I then applied swiss wax cleaner fluid to the rear 2/3rds of the car. Flex speed 2 to apply 4 to work in, black pad. The front was to receive venture shield the following week. I did not want cleaner fluid to interfere with the venture shield application. So i left that area bare.
I removed the cleaner fluid. By this time it is fully dark out. I started on the hand application of Concourso. Again only one picture, time was running out. I still had a fair amount to do that day.
Overall the car had almost no swirling. the exceptions were around the hood emblem, roof, and verticals on the passenger rear. It did not have much depth, clarity, or color definition. The wheels had a fair amount of asphalt in them. The air boxes needed to be polished and sealed. Muffler can polished, titanium tips polished, etc.
Pre-wash pictures.
Wash photos. The car had been clayed with swisswax paint rubber. Using ONR QD strength as a lube.
Taped off. As you can see the Claying brought out a lot of gloss, I did not however do much for depth or for color definition.
This is after polishing. As i had mentioned there were few swirls, mostly it was wipe, rub, or scratching. I started out with 3m ultrafina on a blue pad. It did not have enough cut to remove the marring on the front. It also gave me a fair bit of chirping on the paint. I switched to 106 at 1000-1500-1000 and it improved greatly. The main areas with scratching and marring still remained. I stepped up to SIP green pad 1000-1500-1000 for those areas. That removed 98% of what could be removed. The rest i deemed needed 4k paper.
The car was then polished out with 106 white pad.
I only took two-3 pics of it polished out. Why, well by that point it was 5 pm, I did not have a whole bunch of time left.
I then applied swiss wax cleaner fluid to the rear 2/3rds of the car. Flex speed 2 to apply 4 to work in, black pad. The front was to receive venture shield the following week. I did not want cleaner fluid to interfere with the venture shield application. So i left that area bare.
I removed the cleaner fluid. By this time it is fully dark out. I started on the hand application of Concourso. Again only one picture, time was running out. I still had a fair amount to do that day.
) on such a cool car. You might need a mini van or two to bring you back to reality now.