Black RX-7 Terrible Paint

[MirrorDetailing]

One of my customers had me come up Thursday and work on one of their customers RX-7s. I did this car almost two years ago for them and the customer wanted to get it done again. Car was in pretty bad shape. Paint showed as little as 3mils of clear in some areas all the way up to 34mils. Plus it had been detailed elsewhere a few months prior and the paint was left in pretty bad condition from that.



The roof and trunk were the worse as they showed only 3mils of clear left. So I knew I could not get real heavy with cutting on them. Though the customer wanted almost full correction of the paint...so I was in somewhat of a bind. Luckly I was able to work M205 on a LC White Pad in for awhile and get almost full correction and removing only roughly .05-.1mils. Other areas only needed M205 with an LC Orange Pad to do all the correction. Paint was pretty soft the whole way around. Followed down with Super Finish and some BlackFire and it got a nice black look.



Before:

Once washed, clayed and in the shop...



Heavy micromarring left from the previous detail...

Body has three different paint jobs on it, hince the large variation in clear levels...



Plus just a plain ****** paint job...

Now inside the shop afters and as I was working...

Paint after...

 

[MirrorDetailing]

Now outside to get some sun shots...

 

[Scottwax]

Wow, huge turnaround! Nothing like black done right!

 

[Junebug]

Very nice save! I'll bet you were sweating bullets on the thin areas, I know I would be.

 

[jbdetailing]

So you removed all those heavy swirl marks with m205? Did you use a rotary or a da? I have trouble removing any type of swirls with 205

 

[imported_cj99si]

Looks great man! I love those cars.