I've seen great work on this site and was hesitant to post some of my work. I finally decided to post some pics and process in hopes of learning some more. I had detailed this truck once before. It was used on a movie set and saw many hands in between. I received a call from my client requesting another detail and so here goes.
The truck was pretty dirty so I started out by foaming the surface to help loosen up the dirt. I wanted to make sure I wasn't creating any more work by instilling my scratches on the paint.
Now that the surface is clean I can proceed with inspecting the paint. Light scratches / swirls were visible.
I found hazed spots in some areas.
I did my test spot using the PC and didn't like the results so I moved on to my rotory with 8006 & some #80. This was the first pass. Some light rotory trails are still visible at this point.
Here is a full panel with the xenon lamp in the backfround. Still looked a little milky and cloudy.
This is the end result. Some areas required #83 on a 8006 pad followed by #80 on the rotory. #9 then became my best friend also applied with the rotory. #21 was hand applied.
I tried to get the best sun reflection the day could provide. It was a cloudy misty day which made it kind of frustrating at certain points in the day to apply the polish.
To make sure I had no holograms or any rotory buffer trails I used my xenon light continuously
After 9 hours and 55 minutes I can now call it a day.
For some reason I kept getting micro marring with the PC and a #9006 polishing pad no matter what I tried. The Rotory from beginning to end seemed to give me the results I was looking for using the same #9006 pad.
Hyper dressing was used on the tires and the side steps as well as the wheel wells and engine bay.
The truck was pretty dirty so I started out by foaming the surface to help loosen up the dirt. I wanted to make sure I wasn't creating any more work by instilling my scratches on the paint.
Now that the surface is clean I can proceed with inspecting the paint. Light scratches / swirls were visible.
I found hazed spots in some areas.
I did my test spot using the PC and didn't like the results so I moved on to my rotory with 8006 & some #80. This was the first pass. Some light rotory trails are still visible at this point.
Here is a full panel with the xenon lamp in the backfround. Still looked a little milky and cloudy.
This is the end result. Some areas required #83 on a 8006 pad followed by #80 on the rotory. #9 then became my best friend also applied with the rotory. #21 was hand applied.
I tried to get the best sun reflection the day could provide. It was a cloudy misty day which made it kind of frustrating at certain points in the day to apply the polish.
To make sure I had no holograms or any rotory buffer trails I used my xenon light continuously
After 9 hours and 55 minutes I can now call it a day.
For some reason I kept getting micro marring with the PC and a #9006 polishing pad no matter what I tried. The Rotory from beginning to end seemed to give me the results I was looking for using the same #9006 pad.
Hyper dressing was used on the tires and the side steps as well as the wheel wells and engine bay.
