My first Detail

Grimm

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OK, partial detail at this point. With an 18 month old and getting ready for another in two months I don't have lots of time to dedicate, so I still have the interior to finish up, as well as a few other things like trying to polish the headlights. I wasn't trying to get it perfect, just learning the PC, but I think it looks 100% better. I was able to remove probably 80% of the swirls, but still have a lot of random scratches from 9 years of highway driving that one pass didn't quite remove. The finish is nice and smooth, and noticably deeper green. I didn't think to take it outside between the sealant and wax, so not sure if Natty's made much of a difference.



1996 Cutlass

Washed with Meg's Deep Crystal

Clayed

1 pass with OHC via Wolfgang Orange pad

2 coats EX-P (first via Gray pad, second by hand)

1 coat Natty's Blue

sprayed tires with Meg's Hot Shine



This is the only before pic I bothered to show. Due to the old 2.1 MP camera, it doesn't due justice in showing the difference. But I think this shot shows how rather blah the paint looked compared the after shots.

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Next up is a shot after I did half the hood (top half in pic). Not a great pic, but I think you can see the improvement.

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These are all afters. This first one shows all the years of road rash.

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Looks really good for a 10 y/o vehicle, nice to see something that old in such good shape. IMO you should have used a finishing polish after OHC, I find there is no way it finishes down LSP ready.
 
Thanks for the kind words! I planned to use OP, but I really wanted to finish it up and move on to the other two cars. I probably don't have the eye of detail yet being my first time, but I thought the OHC finished pretty well. I will be spending whatever time is needed on the others, so hopefully they will turn out even better.
 
Bigpoppa3346 said:
Looks really good for a 10 y/o vehicle, nice to see something that old in such good shape. IMO you should have used a finishing polish after OHC, I find there is no way it finishes down LSP ready.



I find that on really metallicy cars, it finishes down good enough for a daily driver. The flake will cover any micromarring you might get.
 
Yeah, I don't have a good set of lights yet either, so I'm sure that would show more that I didn't see. But I wanted to move on to the other cars anyway since it looks like it could take a week or more to do them, and snow will be flying soon. I think it was a worthy start.
 
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