Honda Accord detail including sanding marks & scratch correction

zckid

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Hi friends!

Greetings from the sunny Mauritius.

This Nippon lady came to us for an enhancement. The car was in good shape in every way apart from being rather wrongly cared for in the paint department. It had a previous detailing job somewhere and a few visits to local car washes. It had sanding marks inflicted but not removed and holograms all over resulting from wrong machining techniques/ aggressive products and pads on a notoriously soft factory black Honda paint, Nighthawk Black Pearl. The car washes only added to the injury with more swirls and scratches. Another factor is the constant digging of trenches, all working their way to pollute our roads further. In reality, the paintwork was butchered and skinned.

Upon arrival






Dirt Bath



More dirt




Close-up
Scratches seen under the dirt




Look closely… rare skin condition!
More will be revealed




The wheels






OMG! How to avoid this when our roads are in a forever “employ people to dig holes and fill them back” fashion “à la Keynes”?




You would say a truck but it goes long to say how much polluted our roads have become in the name of development.




Heavily contaminated






Decon started after cleaning




Bleeding process




Clayed to get rid of all “toxin”




After washing, decon and rinse, the car is brought inside for claying






To the paintwork

Claying – round 1




1st and 2nd rounds of clay, is there more?




yes, moving to 3rd round. Chemicals alone wouldn’t remove all the contaminants.



At last, I felt reassured, the clay removed very little contaminants.
After 2 x decon and 3 x clay




Wheels are sealed






Car was rinsed




It was plain to see what we had to attend to. Letting the pics speak.

Heavy swirls in the sun




swirls and holograms



more




sanding marks from a different angle






Skinned paint: still more sanding marks, visible in the shade




haziness caused by sanding and improper wash








sanding remains on bumper




door handle area




More than swirls, look carefully






Can you see the patches?




skin disease








A heavily localized area









Still more




flake off




bird dropping damage and heavy water spots on the sun roof




Deep scratches were common too




On the bottom left, a checking, may be a result of a collision




close-up

 

zckid

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just under the ACCORD badge

may be someone wanted to steal it or ....???





the glass with water spots and smearing




close-up






After correction....
The glass has some deep scratches which unfortunately,




Moving onto paint correction.... the beads of product




The bonnet....
During.... a very sticky paint providing still another hurdle to the correction process




the bonnet after




inch by inch testing after refinement of a section




Extreme close-up.... the metallic pearls from the paint now surface out




The fender on the passenger's side




Almost done




still not satisfied



Refined



The Headlights have not been attended to for years




Cataract .... eye diease



difficult to capture on camera




the state of the bumper




Almost done




Taking it a little further... the haziness is only the polish, needs a wipe off only





The side mirror




Looks good (y).... but it's only one side of the story




From other angles and different sources of light, you can see those patches? .... these are sanding marks from previous "jobs" on the paint





Reworking everything.... which has been same for all areas of this ride




all gone but not perfect. a couple of deep scratches remain but I was prepared to take it.



A not so 50-50 shot during the correction stage




Needing rework… and rework




Different defects spotted using different sources of light at different angles




Almost…




The other side.... Both sides have been worked and again, which goes to say how much this baby had to suffer



improved




Another view




The best shot by miles




The finishing pics of the detail process.
All external paintwork corrected, refined, and protected, glass and headlights restored and sealed which left us with this.... please enjoy


















mirror mirror








At night



Weeks later.









Thanks for viewing. Your thoughts are most welcome

Cheers

Zaid
 

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not bad but totally should upgrade the camera :idea: photos kindof blurry
 

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