2006 Scion Tc

budman3

budman3

Detail time!
Hey everyone, just finished up another detail to show off :). The day started off with temps around 40 and strong winds. This is a 2006 Scion TC that has been in 2 accidents- 1 on passenger fender, 1 on drivers side front fender. So the paint isn't the greatest. There were tons of drips, streaks, dust, bad clear coat, etc all over the car. The body shop did a terrible job, IMO. But the results are 100x better than it was before.

Process:
I did a quick wash with Megs Gold Class and Eagle One All Wheel and Tire Cleaner on the wheels. I did a quick detail on this a few months ago so claying wasn't needed. Interior-carpets got vacuumed and sprayed with folex, all rubber and vinyl got Meg's #40 and glass got Stoners IG. This car is like 75% glass, so there wasn't a lot of paint work even though 50% of it has been repainted. As you can see in the pics below, the clear coat on the passenger side fender was horrible. There was no shine on it at all. I decided I'd try wetsanding it and polishing it out to see what would happen. Well I polished it out with OHC, rotary and a green LC cutting pad and rotary white LC polishing pad. Then I did the whole car with Pinnacle XMT #2. This is a light polish but did a great job. A little goes a long way surprisingly. It left the paint squeeky clean. Then came the LSP. I wanted to try something new so I spit shined MEg's #26 using the PC. I sprayed a light mist of OCW onto the paint and then applied #26 with a finishing pad with the PC on 4. I worked the product in so it looked like normal #26. It applied easy and removed just as easily. The results are amazing... sorry for the length of the typing, here are the pics...

Pictures:
Before
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Problem fender
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Wet sanded (2000 grit)
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Polished with OHC
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XMT polished topped with OCW/#26 spit shine mixed
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Fender properly polished
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Flake shots!
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To say the least I am quite surprised with the OCW #26 spit shining using the PC. I hope you are too :crazy2:. Don't get on me about tire dressing ... look at my road, it's a mud hole. I didn't feel like wasting product just to get messed up on the drive back to the owners house. Questions, comments, suggestions?
 
Great job on the Tc! It looks like it was a handful, but the end result looks fantastic.
 
Thanks AB. There are some minor swirls still here and there but I'm glad I could get that fender looking good again. I don't like body shops... this is a prime example why- I think they were just too lazy (didn't want to waste the time?) to wet sand and buff the fender. I love the last 2 pics of the flake popping... it looked even better in person too.
 
I missed this the first time you posted it. Great job on the detail! It looks like you done a fine job bringing the fender back. How much time did you put into the wet sanding to get the results you wanted?
 
Thanks. It took me less than an hour to sand and then polish it all out. I took my time and everything came out nice :). It took 2 passes with the LC green cutting pad and then 2 passed with LC white polishing pad with the rotary and OHC and then I went over it again with the Pinnacle XMT2 with the PC and LC white polishing pad.
 
BLACKWRX said:
i never got why paint shops never wet sand after painting a car ??????
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Me neither... it's pretty obvious in this situation becuase the fender looked like junk.

joe.p said:
Nice work..Fender looks great i didn't know you did any wet sanding:bigups :bigups
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I didn't know I wet sanded either :hmmm: Ok, I've done a little here and there on scratches but this was the first time on a big panel ... gotta start somewhere. :redface:
 
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