imported_Jakerooni
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haven't had the pleasure of detailing a scion before. and well frankly I laughed a little when it drove up my driveway.. LOL Looked like a little roller skate to me. A good repeat client of mine buys and sells cars all the time. And he just picked this one up off of Autotrader. Pretty sure it used to be a rental car or something of the sort. It only had 8000 miles on it but looked more like 80,000 with the condition it was in. I mean nothing bad but far worse than I expected a car with only 8000 miles to actually have. It had some pretty good paint defects. RIDS everywhere. and the front seemed to have a bit of road rash going on.
For the record... Scion paint isn't the easiest paint to deal with for future reference.
I had to do some trial and error here. I tried the 105/205 with the D/A (G110) with little luck. So I grabbed the Makita....Oh the joys....
First up a good bath and clay treatment to see what I was really dealing with
Some hawaiian shine auto bath was in order here.. Nice and sudsy
Now it was hit and miss with the sun this fine day. I tried getting the defects as best I could. You can see some of them. More RIDS than swirls.. I have to assume it was half a$$ed detailed before they shipped it to him.
So the problem area really was the hood. Rock chips and RIDS galore.. as stated I tried the whole D/A thing with little results... Grabbed the makita with Foam first... Nadda... Switched over to wool.. UGH!!! ARGH!!! HOLY *&%$#!!!!!
So what was left?
Yep I said screw it I'm wet sanding the dang thing. No more disc do I had to do it by hand with my sanding block and Meg's Unigrit 2500.
After the nice dullness set in I could easily see where even the smallest chip was that needed filled in with the touch up. Of course the fill wait till dry sand fill again and repeat until desired results came into play. (actually had the car for 3 days so it all worked out in my favor)
Then it was time to polish it back up to a nice finish. 105 really did the job here. Started with wool and took it to Foam keeping with 105. It really does finish down quite nicely.
Checking for clarity
A nice deep wet finish already and I haven't even switched over to 205 yet.. This was turning out good now.
Once I got the hood in shape I went through the rest of the car with 105 and got it leveled out nicely.
Keeping with the makita and a finishing foam buff it pad I switched over to the 205 to get the finish I wanted.
For the record... Scion paint isn't the easiest paint to deal with for future reference.
I had to do some trial and error here. I tried the 105/205 with the D/A (G110) with little luck. So I grabbed the Makita....Oh the joys....
First up a good bath and clay treatment to see what I was really dealing with
Some hawaiian shine auto bath was in order here.. Nice and sudsy
Now it was hit and miss with the sun this fine day. I tried getting the defects as best I could. You can see some of them. More RIDS than swirls.. I have to assume it was half a$$ed detailed before they shipped it to him.
So the problem area really was the hood. Rock chips and RIDS galore.. as stated I tried the whole D/A thing with little results... Grabbed the makita with Foam first... Nadda... Switched over to wool.. UGH!!! ARGH!!! HOLY *&%$#!!!!!
So what was left?
Yep I said screw it I'm wet sanding the dang thing. No more disc do I had to do it by hand with my sanding block and Meg's Unigrit 2500.
After the nice dullness set in I could easily see where even the smallest chip was that needed filled in with the touch up. Of course the fill wait till dry sand fill again and repeat until desired results came into play. (actually had the car for 3 days so it all worked out in my favor)
Then it was time to polish it back up to a nice finish. 105 really did the job here. Started with wool and took it to Foam keeping with 105. It really does finish down quite nicely.
Checking for clarity
A nice deep wet finish already and I haven't even switched over to 205 yet.. This was turning out good now.
Once I got the hood in shape I went through the rest of the car with 105 and got it leveled out nicely.
Keeping with the makita and a finishing foam buff it pad I switched over to the 205 to get the finish I wanted.
