Black C230

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dneedsmuscles

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Had a black C230 this weekend. Car was in very good condition. The paint had a few deep scratches that had to be buffed out using a pc,Sonus yellow and white pads,HC,OC,OP. The biggest scratches were on the front right fender and left rear quarter.



-wash

-polish using HC,OC,OP

-aio(wheels and paint)



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Man, you seem to be getting busy as of late huh? Seems like most of them are dark colors too. Car looks great as usual.
 
Bigpoppa3346 said:
Pretty reflective. Are you gonna top the AIO?
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On most occasions I leave the AIO without an LSP like SG or even Natty's Blu for black cars like this. AIO leaves a decent protective layer in my opinion. Although, there are times when I do add a carnauba for more depth. It just depends...



Here is my friends car that I used AIO, 1 layer of SG, and topped it with Concours P21S carnauba.



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Way2SSlow said:
Man, you seem to be getting busy as of late huh? Seems like most of them are dark colors too. Car looks great as usual.
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hahahaha!!! YES! I actually had 3 cars this weekend. I'm from Sacramento and a buddy of mine that lives in San Jose(90minute drive) lined these cars up for me if I would just drive there to do them. So I agreed. I did this silver BMW just before the Benz...but lately I have had alot of black cars for some strange reason. Maybe the detail Gods think that I need some major practice!



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dneedsmuscles said:
hahahaha!!! YES! I actually had 3 cars this weekend. I'm from Sacramento and a buddy of mine that lives in San Jose(90minute drive) lined these cars up for me if I would just drive there to do them. So I agreed. I did this silver BMW just before the Benz...but lately I have had alot of black cars for some strange reason. Maybe the detail Gods think that I need some major practice!



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That's awesome, if i ever find people near sac town that needs a detail, i'll have someone to reccommend them to! PM me.
 
it's probably the lighting and camera angle, but that C230 looks much wetter than the M3. Great triplets nonetheless. :goodjob
 
Looks great! I wonder why you'd go from HC to OC to OP, why not do your corrections with HC and then finish with OP? Seems like a redundant step, but maybe I'm missing something. I also wonder about the topper - in my experience AIO offers about a week of protection at best and really isn't designed as a final step.
 
Lightman said:
Looks great! I wonder why you'd go from HC to OC to OP, why not do your corrections with HC and then finish with OP? Seems like a redundant step, but maybe I'm missing something. I also wonder about the topper - in my experience AIO offers about a week of protection at best and really isn't designed as a final step.
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I did actually use HC and then jumped to OP on one scratch. On some of the other areas I started with OC then went to OP. I just listed my products as hc,oc,op. But that wasn't the order in which I used them.



Right now the weather is really nice in San Jose so I am comfortable with topping it off using AIO. I have gotten longer durablility than 1 week with it. Even some carnaubas don't last very long.
 
euro said:
it's probably the lighting and camera angle, but that C230 looks much wetter than the M3. Great triplets nonetheless. :goodjob
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The Mercedez paint has alot of reflection. After applying the SG and P21S to the M3 it added alot of depth which I was really pleased with. Camera angles do help the reflection on the C230 though.
 
WOW !!!!!! Great work, I have the same car (black C230). I am a newbie to this page, can you give me any hints for a newbie wanting to keep his car looking new????? Thanks
 
Nice work there, a lovely looking finish on the paint. I have occasionally left AIO untopped, but found durability not to be that great so I always personally top it now espeically at this time of year... perhaps its the climate over here is harder on it.
 
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