richy
New member
Hurray!! My first job for the season. I was looking forward to jumping back in with both feet. I`m very excited to be offering Feynlab coatings now! They have 2 self healing coatings that are applied by hand..an industry first! For this job, I was using the less expensive Ceramic coating. Here is the car as it arrived to me:
First up was to clean the wheels. The wells were cleaned with LA Totally Awesome. The barrels were first cleaned by a wheel acid called BAM and subsequently with Zep Citrus. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505.
The vehicle was then rinsed off and I liberally applied IronX spray to it, followed by IronX paste on an Incredimitt. Here`s IronX spray doing its thing:
That was then followed by a wash with Megs HW. The car was then brought inside and it was then clayed using a clay towel and Feynlab Prime as lube. That was followed by ONR. Once dried off it was time to polish the paint. It was only booked for a one stage correction, however the customer is a repeat customer of mine and even though it`s his girlfriend`s car, I ended up doing a compound stage on the hood too because it needed it. (She uses automatic car washes). The compound stage was done with Megs M100 + Flex 3401 + black 3D wool pad. The polishing stage that followed that and was used for the rest of the car was 3401 + M205 + yellow B/S pad. I tried a few different things out, but this worked the best. It`s very often what I use for a one step.
The paint was then wiped down with Eraser and then coated with Feynlab`s Ceramic. The paint, head, tail lights and side and rear glass were all coated with it. I used Fly-by-30 on the windshield and the wheel faces were coated with DLux. The tires were shot with Opti Bond using an air gun. 10 hours later, here we go:
Thanks for looking. It`s been a long winter for me even though the weather was not terrible. Lots of changes at work, etc, but now I can get back in my groove!
First up was to clean the wheels. The wells were cleaned with LA Totally Awesome. The barrels were first cleaned by a wheel acid called BAM and subsequently with Zep Citrus. The tires were cleaned with Zep 505.
The vehicle was then rinsed off and I liberally applied IronX spray to it, followed by IronX paste on an Incredimitt. Here`s IronX spray doing its thing:
That was then followed by a wash with Megs HW. The car was then brought inside and it was then clayed using a clay towel and Feynlab Prime as lube. That was followed by ONR. Once dried off it was time to polish the paint. It was only booked for a one stage correction, however the customer is a repeat customer of mine and even though it`s his girlfriend`s car, I ended up doing a compound stage on the hood too because it needed it. (She uses automatic car washes). The compound stage was done with Megs M100 + Flex 3401 + black 3D wool pad. The polishing stage that followed that and was used for the rest of the car was 3401 + M205 + yellow B/S pad. I tried a few different things out, but this worked the best. It`s very often what I use for a one step.
The paint was then wiped down with Eraser and then coated with Feynlab`s Ceramic. The paint, head, tail lights and side and rear glass were all coated with it. I used Fly-by-30 on the windshield and the wheel faces were coated with DLux. The tires were shot with Opti Bond using an air gun. 10 hours later, here we go:
Thanks for looking. It`s been a long winter for me even though the weather was not terrible. Lots of changes at work, etc, but now I can get back in my groove!
