01' Mustang GT full correction

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LilJayV10

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Finished this car today. It was kinda thrashed but it turned out nice. Outside of the rock chips that I obviously can't do anything about I got about about 80-85% correction on it. The car had really deep water spot etching and there were several that needed wet sanded out but because of where they were at I didn't feel comfortable attempting it. Products I used are below



Wash/decon

Two bucket wash method, grit guards

Foammaster II foam gun

Adams Car Shampoo

Dawn dish soap

Meg's APC+

Carpro Merino wool wash mitt

Adams wash mitt

Iron X

Meg's medium and aggressive clay

Cobra waffle weave guzzler drying towel

Adams big drying towel



Wheels/tires/fenders

Meg's super degreaser

Meg's APC+

Adams Deep Wheel Cleaner

Wheel woolies

Daytona speed brushes

Adams lug nut brush

Long handle fender brush from AG

Boars hair brush from AG



Compounding & polishing

Rupes 21 w/ 6 in backing plate

PC 7424XP w/ 3 and 4 inch backing plates

Menz FG400 on Meg's MF finishing disc

Megs M205 via LC flat black pad

Adam's Detail Spray



Headlights

Meg's 3inch sanding discs; 320, 500, 800

Megs 3inch finishing sanding discs; 1000 and 3000

Meg's M105 on LC tangerine pad

Megs M205 on LC white CCS pad

OC 2.0



Tail lights

Meg's 105/300 on LC tangerine pad

Megs M205 on LC white CCS pad

OC 2.0



LSP's

Blackfire Wet Diamond Sealant

Adams Brillant Glaze

Adams In & Out spray

Adams Super VRT

Adams Detail Spray



Glass

Pinnacle Glass Cleaner

Pinnacle Water Spot remover polish

Rupes 21, PC7424 XP

Meg's MF Finishing disc, 6 and 3 inch
 
Adams DWC getting it done





Some APC+ action





Foamed and ready to go





Trying out my new Car pro wash mitt





Forgive the dark pics. It was just about dark when I sprayed the Iron X on. The car bled purple for about ten minutes.













I had to Iron X the back of the car twice. The iron contamination was so bad it had sucked it up under the trunk lid. More on that later.
 
This is the first time using FG400 and to say it's amazing is an understatement. One thing I noticed very quickly is it creates A LOT of heat! It's probably not as bad on a foam pad or using a PC but with a MF disc on the Rupes with the washer mod I am pretty confident you could burn down to primer with the quickness. The utmost care was used when using this combination. i.e. lots of taping edges.



This paint is VERY hard. I think it's harder than the Denali I did a few months back.



After compounding w/ the Rupes 21 on 6inch Meg's MF finishing disc and Menz FG400.













 
Before on drivers door





After compounding





For some reason I can't find the rest of the pictures of the compounding phase. How you loose one hundred pic's I don't know. Wells hells.



The entire car looked like the the hood and door.



Here's the roof after compounding and polishing.







One of my favorite pics from the hood

 
The headlights were destroyed and should have been replaced but I decided to bring them back.









Exhaust tips were worse than headlights.

Befores









Tarminator working on the tar





Afters





 
Few misc pics.



The glass had heavy water spotting.





Not anymore





More water spots





Mustang looking proper again.





Polished all the emblems



Cleaning door jambs



 
This paint was so hard it was LSP after one step. Keeping with my "Good enough is never good enough" philosophy I went over it again w/ M205 on a flat black LC pad. It's about impossible to pick up on camera but I did see an improvement in reflections after this step.



Wiped all the panels down and let the BFWD set up over night. Dressed all the trim/black moldings with Adams Super VRT and/or In and Out spray. I had picked up some Adams brillant glaze a while back and have never used it. I'm not a fan of glazes because by design they hide imperfections and some people use that to hide their shotty work. After talking to a friend who has used the Brilliant glaze I decided to use it. The glazes I have seen in the past are thick. Adams glaze is literally like water. I don't see it having any filling or hiding ability. I did a test panel first to verify and I saw no hiding of any kind. The reason I used it is to try and get that extra little pop. Using it on a white car may be pointless but I used it anyway.



Afters

















I like this pic

 
Tried to take some more pic's earlier this evening but they all came out the same. I need a better camera or stick with doing black vehicles.



I got a few random pics. My friend and his wife came picked the car up tonight. She was excited to say the least. :gruffy:



Cleaned and treated trim









Remember my ***? pic from earlier? She said that had never been cleaned since she bought the car. :punch:





Looking much better





Pic of the Mustang and my 89 T/A









J
 
what a fantastic turn around. I usually think white is too boring to really see the impact of a detail, but this shows it wonderfully. good job.
 
Thanks guys. I appreciate the kind words. I know the car isn't as high end as some others in here, but paint is paint. :D
 
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