Jngrbrdman
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This is a co-worker's car. We work together on several projects and we usually end up walking out of the building together. I've commented on her car several times, as has she. Every now and then she winds up parked next to my car and the difference between them is pretty stark. I've done a couple other cars in the office and she knows what I can do, so I finally talked her into bringing it by. She must have been planning for this because she was nice enough to leave it in the sprinklers all week and let it all bake in nicely before she brought it over. Sheesh... Anyway, nothing a little SSR2 and Danase Swirl Abolisher II (basically the same thing as far as abrasiveness and effectiveness goes) on a yellow Edge 2000 pad and my FLEX couldn't handle. 
It got the typical wash and clay and then the polishing. I finished it off with a little Danase Wet Glaze because I knew I would be doing the car again in a couple months to prep it for winter anyway. No sense in using anything too durable if I'm just going to have to strip it off again anyway.
It was just a little tiny bit oxidized...
Fortunately a lot of these swirls were in the oxidation and it wasn't tough to polish them out.
One thing I will say is that I know now why these are such inexpensive vehicles. The paint on them is absolute garbage for one thing. Nothing but orange peel everywhere you look. I've seen cars come out of high school autobody classes that are better quality than this. The car is a 2006 and it was looking pretty worn. The carpet was already fraying all over the place on the surface. These things are going to be such heaps in five years. No offense intended to anyone who has one, I'm just stating what I observed. They are low in price because they did everything possible to cut expenses when they were building them it would seem. A lot of cars seem to be going this way. I did a 2007 Subaru last week that was basically the same story. The carpets are thin and the paint is poor. The leather was even starting to crack already and there were only 23,000 miles on the thing. Cars today, I tell ya....
It got the typical wash and clay and then the polishing. I finished it off with a little Danase Wet Glaze because I knew I would be doing the car again in a couple months to prep it for winter anyway. No sense in using anything too durable if I'm just going to have to strip it off again anyway.
It was just a little tiny bit oxidized...
Fortunately a lot of these swirls were in the oxidation and it wasn't tough to polish them out.
One thing I will say is that I know now why these are such inexpensive vehicles. The paint on them is absolute garbage for one thing. Nothing but orange peel everywhere you look. I've seen cars come out of high school autobody classes that are better quality than this. The car is a 2006 and it was looking pretty worn. The carpet was already fraying all over the place on the surface. These things are going to be such heaps in five years. No offense intended to anyone who has one, I'm just stating what I observed. They are low in price because they did everything possible to cut expenses when they were building them it would seem. A lot of cars seem to be going this way. I did a 2007 Subaru last week that was basically the same story. The carpets are thin and the paint is poor. The leather was even starting to crack already and there were only 23,000 miles on the thing. Cars today, I tell ya....
