Street Dreams Detail - Black Lexus LS430 correction

[Street Dreams]

Solid work Street Dreams!

What polish(es) did you use on the B pillars and the smaller rear window columns? I noticed that you taped around those so I assume that you polished them too..

Yes I did, here is 50/50 of the B pillars which were corrected using M105 and Menzerna Po 85rd

I have a bunch of pics I left out to keep this a very short writeup but I should have included this one.

 

[CobraKing]

^^^
Thanks for posting the pic and the information. Greatly appreciate you going out of your way to do this.

 

[boshbosh]

L430 severely hacked by a paint chip repair guy. Car was wetsanded in dozens of areas where the work was done. Among other things the Lexus just had some regular abuse accumulated over the years.

Initial condition...

More unfinished sanding spots

Took some readings, plenty to play with

Onto correction :Boxing:

I dont care what you say, Pigtails are not cute

Cluster of gouges

No need for lights

Long RID'age :soldier:

After over an hour playing with combos I landed on the following

M105 wool x 1 or 2 (2200rpm)
M105 foam (1800rpm)
203s foam
85rd foam

Some 50/50s after compounding

Just showing the difference in color, still holograms and haze in the polished side after compounding

More sanding spots unfinished

After

Passenger door

I think he gave zero effort on this one :gasp:

50/50 on trunk

Finished with Powerlock

Some sun shots

I apologize for the very straight forward writuep, this car took much longer than expected so I did not get a chance to do a more in depth pictorial.

Thanks for looking

dood, lovely job.question? where can i get one of those gauges to measure the paint.
at the mo i just go through the grades,that would save loads of time.
many thanks. ive been doing it for ten years now,but not worked in show room of any sort;just private high end stuff.thanks once again david

 

[CobraKing]

^^^
Hey bro, you don't need to quote the original post. Street Dreams' is a good guy, he'll respond to your questions without having to do so.

 

[imported_glfahlc]

again david. you show us all that are just learning this trade how it should be done properly... thanks my friend

 

[Street Dreams]

dood, lovely job.question? where can i get one of those gauges to measure the paint.
at the mo i just go through the grades,that would save loads of time.
many thanks. ive been doing it for ten years now,but not worked in show room of any sort;just private high end stuff.thanks once again david

That is a highline paint gauge, relatively inexpensive and they can be had at http://www.highlinemeter.com/

Note that this gauge will not read on composite body panels.