Richard@BlackWOW
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Perfecting a Dodge Challenger with Prima
Products used:
Meguiar's C2000 Clay
Megiar's Hyper Wash
Prima Swirl
Prima Amigo
Prima Epic
The client showed up with this beautiful Dodge Challenger.
He asked me if there was anything I could do. Inspecting in the light showed towel scratches and light swirls throughout the paint.
More towel scratches
Pulled into my old shop
Snow foamed with Hyper Wash
After about 12 minutes
Pressure washed with distilled water..I have two commercial water distillers where I produce and store 20 gallons a day.
Dried with my Belgian Waffles
Blowing water from the crevices
Claying with Meguiar's C2000 clay
Graphics and edges taped and ready for polishing
On my lift and ready for work
Using proprietary LED lights and Prima Swirl on my Makita with an LC White pad
The paint is full of swirls when viewed under my lighting rig. Originally I was going to polish with the PC and Prima Finish, but the deeper defects needed too many corrective passes. I also tried the LC Red pad with Prima Finish on the rotary and that looked great, but too had similar issues, so the best first pass is the LC White, Prima Swirl, on the rotary and follow that with the PC, LW White, and Finish. Will also do Amigo to bring out the metallic flakes before finishing with Epic.
Looking better
More buffing
Quick check outdoors reveals it's not perfect enough yet so back in the shop it goes for more work
All finished...course there is no direct sun because of recent rains but my process pix show it all.
LSP was Prima Epic synthetic polymer wax. The paint is perfect and the client is happy. He brought over the next car a few weeks later after I moved to my larger 3,000 SF shop.
Products used:
Meguiar's C2000 Clay
Megiar's Hyper Wash
Prima Swirl
Prima Amigo
Prima Epic
The client showed up with this beautiful Dodge Challenger.
He asked me if there was anything I could do. Inspecting in the light showed towel scratches and light swirls throughout the paint.
More towel scratches
Pulled into my old shop
Snow foamed with Hyper Wash
After about 12 minutes
Pressure washed with distilled water..I have two commercial water distillers where I produce and store 20 gallons a day.
Dried with my Belgian Waffles
Blowing water from the crevices
Claying with Meguiar's C2000 clay
Graphics and edges taped and ready for polishing
On my lift and ready for work
Using proprietary LED lights and Prima Swirl on my Makita with an LC White pad
The paint is full of swirls when viewed under my lighting rig. Originally I was going to polish with the PC and Prima Finish, but the deeper defects needed too many corrective passes. I also tried the LC Red pad with Prima Finish on the rotary and that looked great, but too had similar issues, so the best first pass is the LC White, Prima Swirl, on the rotary and follow that with the PC, LW White, and Finish. Will also do Amigo to bring out the metallic flakes before finishing with Epic.
Looking better
More buffing
Quick check outdoors reveals it's not perfect enough yet so back in the shop it goes for more work
All finished...course there is no direct sun because of recent rains but my process pix show it all.
LSP was Prima Epic synthetic polymer wax. The paint is perfect and the client is happy. He brought over the next car a few weeks later after I moved to my larger 3,000 SF shop.
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. Beautiful work that looks beyond perfection to me.
