How do you gauge a person is car crazy or not?
Answer
1. Spend his time looking at his ride more than anyone else
2. Clean her more than any other chores at home
3. Willingly spend his fortune on lavished her, time & effort worth everything
4. Called his ride by name
I share something of my passion to many & of which this one particularly captivated my heart & soul of detailing
remember this familiar ride.... 21 years of oxidized paint that was doomed for repainting even professional body shop says is beyond detailing correction
my 1st attempts (12 months ago)
pic after after 1st correctional detail
she is known as my Nissan 2face
Car detailer: Nissan Sunny AKA two face
some may prefer this original look
I may not have the luxury looking ride or paint but it has been always my passion to detail & to maintained what I have restores.
My paint on one side of the car is 21 years old of age & another restores last year & regularly maintained by bi monthly waxes & 6 months polish, as it is a non clear coated car (AKA single stage paint). Constantly facing the aging issue
A good classic examples?would be?our house gates & grills?living in the tropics....paint get oxidized prematurely by heat & acid rain & yearly painting required, it turn dulls & oxidized
The solution?a double stage paint was created to protect this aging process?.clear coat paint??I may not have the luxury again to repaint my car?..but fortunate to have a special coating flown in special from US manufacture?.AKA Alien coating
This is my thesis done?.studying on my own
Paint defect correction?etched marked caused by prolong neglected birds dropping
spot wet sanded for testing
paint etched by this acidic droppings threat & wet sanded to level up & compound off
Ta da
wet sanded the rest of the 50% of my entire car
Wet sanded the affected area to bring out the defect, 1500 grits sand paper used, followed by 2000 grits sand paper
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Wet sanding" refers to sanding with specially designed sandpaper wrapped around a skinny sponge with water running on the sanding area to clean away paint/primer from the area you are sanding.
"Block sanding" means putting a hard flat structure behind sand paper... use paint paddlesticks or small blocks of wood.
sanding mark removed by compound & I choose M 105 for it aggressiveness & nos 12 cut in precision cutting scale
a prefect 50/50 % comparison picture?to show the 21 years old paint which was oxidized & another side that was corrected
pics before wet sanded
after wet sanded down by 1500 grit sand paper & followed by 2000 grit sand paper
perfectly & evenly sanded down??
The sanding mark was removed by Megs # 105 with S/side wool pad , followed by Lake country Cutting pad with M# 105 & Polish by Megs 80 with Lake country Polishing pad
Another 50/50 comparison pic after sanding mark removed
there is some visible deep scratches is too deep to be removed?..as this car was terribly
neglected for 21 years & paint was just left there to be oxidized. There are countless area where deep scratches inflicted by scotch bright dishes scrub, some are more severe as it seems, it has been brushes over metal bristle brushes
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4 months later
Intervention plan?to maintained this Single coated paint, with minimal effort
ONR No rinse Wash prior Claying (aggressive clay) & lube with ONR
To removed paint imperfection before coating my single stage paint
M#105 with Wool by rotary
Followed by M# 105 with Lake country CCS
Optimum Polish with LC polishing pad
After pics
tada
prefect stage
Apparently, this coating was design to with stand all harshness of weather & environmental threat. Counted my blessing to be able to attained this & having this extra ordinary water beaded results
Pay attention to the blue tape mark area
tape prior coating, it is an area that I coat without any corrections
Pics after coated applied
look at the 21 years old & oxidized paint
300 watt Halogen lamp is no feat even in penetrating thru ?.dead paint?dull & matt
admiring the gloss at the corrected coated side ( on the engine bonnet area only)
tada pics
the car was left to cure for 48 hours?.while we went for an outting
3 days later some sun light pics
some beading pics after some sunny drops
