- Feb 10, 2006
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Hello Everyone!
It has indeed been a while since i last posted anything here. Been kinda busy with other stuff and such. Without further delay, i bring to you today a 7 year old car that has been neglected by the previous owner. A client contacted me and asked if i could help restore the exterior of this car to shape after he purchased it 2nd hand. I couldn't resist the challenge once i got to see the condition that the car was in. I'll let the pictures do the talking:
Upon arrival. From a distance, it doesn't look that bad, aye?
A little closeup of the hood surface..Notice the orangepeel and the lack of gloss? Found out that the hood was resprayed as well as the other panels around the car.
The car was filled with RIDs, swirls, watermarks and bird droppings.
This was on the hood:
And of course, to add on to the list of damages is this: calcium deposits
This is how the hood and boot looked in it's original state. Very dull and lacks the gloss. I'm about to change all that in a bit :)
Started with the usual wash from the wheels first then body. Not forgetting the claying process after that too. Didnt take any photos of those because it was getting dark and all i wanted to to at that point was to get the car squeaky clean ASAP so that i can start working on the correction. Sorry folks!. Fast forward now to the correction test spot.
Test area before correction was done.
Did a 50/50 shot. after compounding with OHC
Although most of the watermarks were removed, the surface still looked dull because of the orange peel texture:
Decided that it needs a little more cutting power. So i whipped out the Osren Velvet pad, then stepped down with the OHC to refine and worked the surface to get this: (This really is a picture of the halogen reflection on the paint)
Fender:
to this after a few passes of OHC:
Satisfied with the results, i called it a night and decided to continue the next morning.
Here's how the test spot looks in the day. Spot the difference ;)
Remember the calcium deposits?
Fixed!
Moving on to the boot that was once dull and unattractive. Did a 50/50 and here's how it turned out:
Fixed!
After a total of 2 and a 1/2 days, here's the finished product, enjoy!
Thanks for looking folks!
It has indeed been a while since i last posted anything here. Been kinda busy with other stuff and such. Without further delay, i bring to you today a 7 year old car that has been neglected by the previous owner. A client contacted me and asked if i could help restore the exterior of this car to shape after he purchased it 2nd hand. I couldn't resist the challenge once i got to see the condition that the car was in. I'll let the pictures do the talking:
Upon arrival. From a distance, it doesn't look that bad, aye?
A little closeup of the hood surface..Notice the orangepeel and the lack of gloss? Found out that the hood was resprayed as well as the other panels around the car.
The car was filled with RIDs, swirls, watermarks and bird droppings.
This was on the hood:
And of course, to add on to the list of damages is this: calcium deposits
This is how the hood and boot looked in it's original state. Very dull and lacks the gloss. I'm about to change all that in a bit :)
Started with the usual wash from the wheels first then body. Not forgetting the claying process after that too. Didnt take any photos of those because it was getting dark and all i wanted to to at that point was to get the car squeaky clean ASAP so that i can start working on the correction. Sorry folks!. Fast forward now to the correction test spot.
Test area before correction was done.
Did a 50/50 shot. after compounding with OHC
Although most of the watermarks were removed, the surface still looked dull because of the orange peel texture:
Decided that it needs a little more cutting power. So i whipped out the Osren Velvet pad, then stepped down with the OHC to refine and worked the surface to get this: (This really is a picture of the halogen reflection on the paint)
Fender:
to this after a few passes of OHC:
Satisfied with the results, i called it a night and decided to continue the next morning.
Here's how the test spot looks in the day. Spot the difference ;)
Remember the calcium deposits?
Fixed!
Moving on to the boot that was once dull and unattractive. Did a 50/50 and here's how it turned out:
Fixed!
After a total of 2 and a 1/2 days, here's the finished product, enjoy!
Thanks for looking folks!
