joshcaro
New member
This is my second detail since I've got the PC. A little about the car:
It is my brothers 1999 Mazda 626. He purchased it about a year ago after having problems with his Explorer. The car had been wrecked and I believe 2 doors were replaced and painted and there were/are tons of defects in the paint. For one, the hood and other various parts such as the roof and trunk have some clear coat failure. The orange peel of this car is extremely bad in some areas from the repaint. The swirls were ridicolous. I managed to get rid of about 75% of the swirls and actually hid a lot of the clearcoat failure areas as well as get rid of lots of scratches. I was pushing for time because he needed his car to go to work in so I couldnt take very good before/after pictures but I managed to get some. I tried to get the defected areas more so, but after uploading to my computer the pictures were horrible and you could not tell anything. I managed to get some pictures of the swirls that were pretty good. My process was as follows:
Wash
SSR 2.5/polishing pad (definitely needed cutting)
SSR 1/polishing
S&W
Wolfgand Sealant
Megs High Gloss Endurance for the tires
Total Time: about 4 hours
Here are the pictures before the wash:
Here are the pictures after the wash:
Here is the finished project:
I may see if I can get some better after shots tommorow when he comes back over.
Overall we were both extremely happy, but I could use improvement.
It is my brothers 1999 Mazda 626. He purchased it about a year ago after having problems with his Explorer. The car had been wrecked and I believe 2 doors were replaced and painted and there were/are tons of defects in the paint. For one, the hood and other various parts such as the roof and trunk have some clear coat failure. The orange peel of this car is extremely bad in some areas from the repaint. The swirls were ridicolous. I managed to get rid of about 75% of the swirls and actually hid a lot of the clearcoat failure areas as well as get rid of lots of scratches. I was pushing for time because he needed his car to go to work in so I couldnt take very good before/after pictures but I managed to get some. I tried to get the defected areas more so, but after uploading to my computer the pictures were horrible and you could not tell anything. I managed to get some pictures of the swirls that were pretty good. My process was as follows:
Wash
SSR 2.5/polishing pad (definitely needed cutting)
SSR 1/polishing
S&W
Wolfgand Sealant
Megs High Gloss Endurance for the tires
Total Time: about 4 hours
Here are the pictures before the wash:
Here are the pictures after the wash:
Here is the finished project:
I may see if I can get some better after shots tommorow when he comes back over.
Overall we were both extremely happy, but I could use improvement.
