Yo. Been a week or so since I posted, though I would since two of these cars had the hardest paint I have ever dealt with (and that's not me being dramatic, either).
First up, the SL600 that can't catch a break. I've polished it twice this year (first time lightly), second time a little more aggressive since it got scratched up by some kids. This time the owners air suspension failed so he had to have both front fenders and both rockers repainted. The repaints themself were very good, but the shops put in a *ton* of marring. More than I have ever seen in a short period of time. The paint on this car is solid as a rock, I mentioned it before but this is the first time I've done major correction on it. Rock. Solid. Started at dawn, ended at almost 5PM.
No wash, no clay; it was ready to rock.
EC/OP @ 1500 via yellow x a bunch of passes on each panel.
HC @ 1300 via white. (RAG and other HC guys, I could have finished here, the paint was that hard)
Same day; another really hard one. Audi V8, moderate marring. I was working by halogen in the dark heh. I didn't get many good before/afters because of the time, but anyway.
2006 Civic Coupe. The dealership "prepped" it really well! The owner was understandably skeptical of detailers in general. I think I sent him off feeling good.
2x 2003 G35 coupes. One Diamond Graphite, good condition. One black, poor condition.
Black one got wash, clay, HC/orange @1500, 106ff/grey @1300, Prime Strong, Nattys Blue.
DG one got a wash, a much needed claying, and 106FF/grey @1300. Prime Strong, AJT.
A word to the wise; doing paint repair without doing a full detail is not worth it (imo). I must have done minor repairs on 10 cars this week. A Porsche 911T, Honda Ridgeline, another G35, a Matrix, etc, etc...
They must have become easy to polish. The body panels must be very familiar by now and you already know what the paint will need without having to guess.
Ya, that was at a meet. We do a twice yearly "Meet & Shine" where me and a couple other detailing geeks show noobs how to use PC's and stuff. Normally I detail one of the mods cars to illustrate how things like clay work. This time I did three cars, but ya - I could polish a G in my sleep. Was a fun meet, everyone put in $10 and we used that money to order pizzas and pop, we also had a drawing for a "free detail" which a new owner won which was great.
Sean; I do. I give them all breaks and have a lot of local G-friends. I have a thread in the Canada section of g35driver that's like 20+ pages long heh.
