2006 Chrysler Pasifica "ALMOST FULL WETSAND" crazy correction

[sacdetailing]

Hello everybody! Lately Ive been practicing a lot of polishing and wet sanding and my previous project was my brothers car 2006 Pasifica. One side was repainted and other side quarter (uneven high readings) other was original and you can tell by the pretty even readings. The orange peel was bad on both sides but sanding marks and orange peel was worse on repainted side Also the readings were healthy on original clear (160+/- but on top of the door by the window it was 120 which wasn't needed to be wet-sanded anyways. just a small 1 or 2 centimeters wide.

Areas that were not wet-sanded were roof,rear bumper front bumper (the front bumper was wetsanded and polished by me earlier.)

The correction was 1500 then 2000

purple foam and twisted wool m105 (on some parts i didn't like the cut of twisted wool so i switched to pfwp) then orange lc pad and m105 then m205 on white lc pad. sealed with black fire by DA. all plastic was protected with 303. Also thanks to Barry Theal, he helped me with some questions!



now lets see the pics!

FIRST PIC BEFORE DOING ANYTHING.

Before. right fender

Again (notice! THIS CLOSE UP PICTURES ARE AFTER POLISHING WITH PURPLE FOAM AND M105 THEN M205 ON WHITE PAD COUPLE WEEKS EARLIER! i WANTED TO TAKE IT TO ANOTHER GLOSS LEVEL! LOL

Now the fun part starts here!

Half half shot

This is the previous part before, my father painted hood, fender and bumper and wanted to correct orange peel himself because i didn't have the time but after i did my thing he was amazed.. I respect my dad but its just an example of what some skill might do...

left side is my polishing right side is dads!

The Wet Sanding and polishing + sealing was over, i have it last touches:

Yes! even is areas like these needs to be protected!

Before

During

After

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Awesome!!!!!

 

[sacdetailing]

NOW THE AFTERS!

SOME SUN SHOTS

THE QUARTER PANEL

ONE MORE SHOT

yes THIS IS ME BEING CRAZY! LOL excuse that i was happy of how glossy it was!

remember how it was before?

couple days later

then this one?

then after

ofcourse ive noticed some super minor imperfections in couple of spots but over all this is what i wanted! please! all comments welcome! Question: how much would you rate this job at? (just for the fun i want to know!)

 

[sacdetailing]

anyone????

 

[carwashguy4life]

Nice work. Wetsanding is the one area that i would really like to master. U did good work.

 

[The Wraith]

Damn, dude. You make that look easy. Great work. The owner must feel just like when he/she drove it off the lot for the 1st time.

 

[sacdetailing]

Damn, dude. You make that look easy. Great work. The owner must feel just like when he/she drove it off the lot for the 1st time.

ohh lol it was not as much as my first wet sand, that was a long hard challenge! (i was scared and learning) this was easier. yeah it realy does look factory! its my brothers and thanks.

 

[sacdetailing]

Nice work. Wetsanding is the one area that i would really like to master. U did good work.

thanks man! just go ahead and start practicing! ull over sand a couple first cars(couple spots i mean lol) but eventually ull get the feeling of how much u need to go more, also clear coats are different too! some are harder to make perfect and some are easy. like the original clear was harder to do and repainted was really really easy.(easier i mean) practice o cars or parts from junkyard or something, try your own cars first.

 

[JohnKleven]

Awesome work. American paint never looked that good before.

 

[sacdetailing]

Awesome work. American paint never looked that good before.

thanks John!

 

[Scottwax]

Nice work, you probably doubled the value of that Pacifica!

 

[longdx]

Impressive work. I have yet to do any form of wetsanding and am always impressed of the results. I do know that there is a learning curve.Your post made it look easy.

 

[sacdetailing]

Impressive work. I have yet to do any form of wetsanding and am always impressed of the results. I do know that there is a learning curve.Your post made it look easy.

Ohh man it wasn't easy! Even though its not my first time still wet sanding is not an easy task to do even for a professional. (which am not yet)

 

[sacdetailing]

Awesome work. American paint never looked that good before.

It sure did not! thanks!

Nice work, you probably doubled the value of that Pacifica!

Yeah probably did! thanks Scott!

 

[5150kon]

if you think your going to be taking on more projects like that, u may want to look into a DA, itll cut down SOOOOO much time on your sanding.



otherwise good job, where in sac are you at?



also your dad paints? does he by chance do fiberglass work?

 

[sacdetailing]

if you think your going to be taking on more projects like that, u may want to look into a DA, itll cut down SOOOOO much time on your sanding.



otherwise good job, where in sac are you at?



also your dad paints? does he by chance do fiberglass work?

Hello! Yes! i do have a DA and i do wet sand with it but i wanted to do this one "custom" lol, i need to buy a 1500 sanding pads for my DA because my 2000 and 3000 do not cut as good and too too long. And plus for some reason so far i like hand wet sanding but I will do more sanding and testing with my a DA, i actually have a write up coming today am doing Volvo s60, some areas was repainted long ago before my dad bought it. and i didn't like the finish and harsh sand grit that was done by body shop. almost the whole rear of the car was wet sanded by da. coming soon!