"91" Red Trooper

Beemerboy

Beemerboy

Just One More Coat
This is the latest of cars that I detailed, its got 149K on it and is an outside car. After washing it I used clay, light cut rubbing compound, polish, swirl remover, glaze and then wax. The oxidation it was unbelievable every towel including myself was red. The grill was really pitted out so I removed it sanded, primed and painted it black I have to admit it was fun working on it, as its been a long time since I have worked on single stage paint
 
NICE

Thats a single-stage paintjob? Can you give a more indepth list of what process/materials you used?
 
Thanks here is what I did. After the washed I used a clay bar with QD spray, the hood was a mess the bar would barely move at first. The second step was a hand job with light cut compound, then using the orbital with a cutting pad I polished it. Next was swirl remover with a polish pad, then hand glaze with 3M glaze, final was wax using a finishing pad. I was thinking about using the rotary but the orbital seemed to be doing the job quite well. The clay bar was the trick I think.
To answer your question yes this is single stage paint every bit of me and the towels that I used were red. Allot of the products that I use are from P&S there is a local guy here that takes good care of me. I have to admit that I amazed myself as well and my next door neighbor came over said he could not believe what I did.
 
I like doing those jobs ALMOST as much as my high end guys. It's just soooo much fun to get junk to look like new. I took an 89 Ford Probe with almost 200k on it that looked like that and got it looking half ways decent after about an hours of worth of wet sanding and buffing. The car actualy shines now where the paint Wasn't beond repair. You just get so much satisfaction after truly getting a restoration. Not just a cleaning.
 
Beemer boy, thanks for giving me the confidence to use rubbing compound on my single stage paint (93 mustang gt vert)
used 3M rubbing compound fine cut, #7, and then nxt by meg's

before:
 
Dave,

NICE WORK!

An orbital with a cutting pad!??! Where'd this combo come from? Sorry, don't mean to sound crass, but an cutting with an orbital? We need technology like this!

Great job!

Regards,
 
Nice work on both of them:bigups

Restoring oxidized paint is so rewarding.

If you have some PB PP, you should try it, it really cuts through oxidized paint.


Here is a test area I did by hand with PP on the hood of a 90 Miata
 
Nice, I should have used #9 or DACP after the 3M finess-IT rubbing compound but I did it all by hand, so didn't have time. Still love the results. I saw your post on the Miada, looks awesome.
 
Thanks, great job on the Mustang, too. That is alot of work to do by hand.


I was actually going to use some rubbing compound first but wanted to see if PP could cut through the oxidation, and it did...very well so I didn't need to use it.
 
Your welcome I saw the great handy work that you did. Invest in a PC over the summer you will love yourself for it!!
 
I defiently want one, but the budget is too tight right now, (college student). I'm hoping NXT wax will live up to its claims on durability. We'll see, I want all my hard work to stay lol
 
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