Tru_Shine
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A buddy of mine came to me about his 1997 Black Acura Integra, He wanted it to have a Tru Shine before the Big Import Alliance meet in ATL GA. So he let me have it for a couple of days so I could take of everything and get this puppy gleaming. Lets get started!
I began the detail with an inspection of the paint surface. I know the previous owner had the car buffed all the time so I was a little worried about how thin the paint was. I pulled out my Highline meter II Paint thickness gauge and began to walk around the car testing each panel. I knew the Hood and Trunk had recently been painted so I wasn't surprised with the results that I got.
The hood was healthy
but all the original paint panels were pretty low.
The trunk is going to be wet sanded because of some Extreme orange peel (you see in some pics below)
I recorded all of the information from each panel and any other info that the owner needed to know about. such as how thin the paint on the roof was, about 2.4 mils :nervous2:
So I sprayed off all of this crazy pollen that was caked on everything. I washed the car with Dawn Dish detergent to strip ANY wax that was on the car off. I wanted a pure paint surface for the polish.
I used:
Single bucket Method
Dawn Dish Detergent (to strip off ALL wax for a pure paint surface)
Grit Guard
100% Sheep skin wash mitt
and Dried using a Detailed image reTHICKulous MF towel
and Clayed with Auto magic blue fine clay
the wheels were cleaned with
Chemical Guys "Diablo Wheel Gel" 1:3 dilution ratio
EZ Detail brush
I sprayed it on and let it set for 10-15 min on each wheel and the scrubbed it with my EZ Detail brush. and It worked amazingly, I love this stuff
You can really tell how bad the trunk was orange peeled
along with the paint the tail lights were just as dull and swirled up and needed some lovin too.
I brought the Car inside and began to tape off the trunk and get to wet sanding
I started dry sanding with P1500 Eagle Yellow Super-Tack with a foam interface pad and followed it up with P3000 Eagle Buflex pads.
Smooth as a baby's butt! bye Bye oranges!
I buffed it out using:
Harbor freight Rotary buffer
Gloss It 3" foam backing plate
Lake country purple foamed wool pad
Meguiars M105 compund
This is just after M105/PFW pad
Continued Below.......
I began the detail with an inspection of the paint surface. I know the previous owner had the car buffed all the time so I was a little worried about how thin the paint was. I pulled out my Highline meter II Paint thickness gauge and began to walk around the car testing each panel. I knew the Hood and Trunk had recently been painted so I wasn't surprised with the results that I got.
The hood was healthy
but all the original paint panels were pretty low.
The trunk is going to be wet sanded because of some Extreme orange peel (you see in some pics below)
I recorded all of the information from each panel and any other info that the owner needed to know about. such as how thin the paint on the roof was, about 2.4 mils :nervous2:
So I sprayed off all of this crazy pollen that was caked on everything. I washed the car with Dawn Dish detergent to strip ANY wax that was on the car off. I wanted a pure paint surface for the polish.
I used:
Single bucket Method
Dawn Dish Detergent (to strip off ALL wax for a pure paint surface)
Grit Guard
100% Sheep skin wash mitt
and Dried using a Detailed image reTHICKulous MF towel
and Clayed with Auto magic blue fine clay
the wheels were cleaned with
Chemical Guys "Diablo Wheel Gel" 1:3 dilution ratio
EZ Detail brush
I sprayed it on and let it set for 10-15 min on each wheel and the scrubbed it with my EZ Detail brush. and It worked amazingly, I love this stuff
You can really tell how bad the trunk was orange peeled
along with the paint the tail lights were just as dull and swirled up and needed some lovin too.
I brought the Car inside and began to tape off the trunk and get to wet sanding
I started dry sanding with P1500 Eagle Yellow Super-Tack with a foam interface pad and followed it up with P3000 Eagle Buflex pads.
Smooth as a baby's butt! bye Bye oranges!
I buffed it out using:
Harbor freight Rotary buffer
Gloss It 3" foam backing plate
Lake country purple foamed wool pad
Meguiars M105 compund
This is just after M105/PFW pad
Continued Below.......
