Today's black SS Lexus took 8 hours

[Thomas Dekany]

This car is 10 years old.



This detail actually took almost a full year. First the weather was way too cold and I gave up on the exterior last winter. This summer on a very hot day the paint ended up being too hot and even pwc messed up the paint.



So finally today I was able work on the paint in our garage with a 1000w light :grinno:



Here is a before picture that doesn't look half bad]/B]

Now if one really looks at the paint one sees this all over the car plus tons of scretches that didn't want to come out, no matter what I did.

 

[imported_tpdetail]

so where are the afters?



what was your process? was this paint in particular harder? I dont see why a rotary and some wool or foam cutting couldnt get the job dne.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Process:



nxt wash

DP clay

ssr2.5/rotary/1500rpm/ended up using LC white pads (both 6" & 7.5")

ssr2/pc white pad

ssr1/pc black pad

pwc/pc black pad

DP Max Wax/pc white pad

FK1 tire shine



As far as I could see, 99% of the swirls are gone, but most deep scretches didn't come out.



Tried green, orange pads, FK1's medium compound but besides the white pad everything else created too many new swirls and didn't get rid of scretches. O well.



Few after pictures.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

PS: ssr2.5 2 to 3 passes - took over 4 hours - I am ashamed. :down

 

[imported_tpdetail]

wowsers...i usually do just 1 pass of 2.5 on a foam cutting pad. edge2k yellow. then i follow up with someting equivalent tossr 2 on a green polishing pad via rotary, and after that a mild polishs makes everyhing 99 percent good.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

wowsers...i usually do just 1 pass of 2.5 on a foam cutting pad. edge2k yellow. then i follow up with someting equivalent tossr 2 on a green polishing pad via rotary, and after that a mild polishs makes everyhing 99 percent good.

This particular paint may not be part of "everything".



I read about someone on DC who had the same issues with the same type/color car.

 

[DSVWGLI]

Thats a 100% improvement :xyxthumbs . Nice gloss and reflections too.

 

[ScubaStevo]

This particular paint may not be part of "everything".



I read about someone on DC who had the same issues with the same type/color car.

'Yup. :grrr

 

[imported_themightytimmah]

Looks great, maybe Powergloss would have saved some time? I would suggest trying PG/yellow followed by OCP/green next time you see a car that bad.

 

[JJ_]

Does scottwax not do a lexus SS often?



It looks excellent, lexus black is one of my fav's!!

 

[GoodnClean]

Looks great! Lexus SS may be a PITA but it sure does clean up good.



I've done a few of them and I've always found that they polish out pretty easily, odd it was so difficult...

 

[hirosh]

wow, awesome improvement! nice job. :xyxthumbs

 

[Tasty]

Love the way those tires look with that dressing.