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This is a heavily modified 97 Toyota Tacoma truck, the paint is mostly custom, but some is factory.
The swirls were bad, real bad. Add to that the fact that the paint was so contaminated with other paint (parked outside of a custom shop all day, every day, the over spray adds) that it chewed up an entire clay bar and you have yourself a rather interesting day. When I started claying the finish it was like the clay was “stuck� to the paint, it couldn’t “break loose� and get through the contaminants. Any of you that have ever picked up a Meguiars over spray bar know exactly how big they are and just how much clay this truck needed(think about three of the retail bars).
Adding to my woes was the fact that different areas of the truck were painted at different times, then you had areas of factory paint. I could tell the areas immediately, but the products that I ended up using worked great on all areas�though I did have to buff a little longer on the harder (factory and older custom paint) areas.
Final process was:
Wash
Clay (whole bar)
Dry
Buff with Hi-Temp extreme cut and a meguiars cutting pad via rotary polisher @1500 RPM’s
Buff with 3Mperfect-it III machine glaze @1400 RPM’s
Buff with Menzerna final polish II via porter cable and meguiars polishing pad @ speed 5
Wipe down with Wolfgang QD to remove all dust
Apply two thin coats of Wolfgand deep gloss sealant
Apply one coat of Optimum polymer wax
Tires are dressed with poorboys bold and brite
Glass cleaned with NXT glass cleaner.
I also hand buffed the custom painted interior.
Total time�about 9 hours.
Before:
The swirls were bad, real bad. Add to that the fact that the paint was so contaminated with other paint (parked outside of a custom shop all day, every day, the over spray adds) that it chewed up an entire clay bar and you have yourself a rather interesting day. When I started claying the finish it was like the clay was “stuck� to the paint, it couldn’t “break loose� and get through the contaminants. Any of you that have ever picked up a Meguiars over spray bar know exactly how big they are and just how much clay this truck needed(think about three of the retail bars).
Adding to my woes was the fact that different areas of the truck were painted at different times, then you had areas of factory paint. I could tell the areas immediately, but the products that I ended up using worked great on all areas�though I did have to buff a little longer on the harder (factory and older custom paint) areas.
Final process was:
Wash
Clay (whole bar)
Dry
Buff with Hi-Temp extreme cut and a meguiars cutting pad via rotary polisher @1500 RPM’s
Buff with 3Mperfect-it III machine glaze @1400 RPM’s
Buff with Menzerna final polish II via porter cable and meguiars polishing pad @ speed 5
Wipe down with Wolfgang QD to remove all dust
Apply two thin coats of Wolfgand deep gloss sealant
Apply one coat of Optimum polymer wax
Tires are dressed with poorboys bold and brite
Glass cleaned with NXT glass cleaner.
I also hand buffed the custom painted interior.
Total time�about 9 hours.
Before:
