Well, yet another black Japanese car for me to polish. Seems like all cars are black nowadays, which is fine, because the results look that much better when they are finished. The car was repainted last year and the owner wanted to sharpen the paint up, and see it at its full potential again. Most of the defects were light, except a few areas that had some RIDS that were a lost cause for the most part. I saw many paint flaws while inspecting the paint as I went, showing the owner what was left by the body shop, which he was not impressed with for other reasons anyways.
The Process was kept pretty simple, a mixture of a rotary and DA, using a few polishes as I went along, trying out different combos. The majority of the correction was the same.
Pre soaked with APC 4to 1
Washed with Werstat Auto Body Wash using an Uber sponge and 2BM
Dried with Showroom FX WW towel
Clayed with Exclusive Blue, which left marring, but it was light and with the amount of overspray was needed
Polished with SIP, PF, UCCL, and green and yellow GI pads
Rotary was used on 2/3 of the car, with some areas light enough for a DA
Sealed with Werkstat Prime Strong
Wheels sealed with AJT and exhaust polished with Optimum Metal polish and Steel wool. Both of these were done by the owner.
No Befores as it was spitting outside, just during and afters.
General condition of the paint
50/50
Mirrors had no shine, none whatsoever. That had to get fixed
Before
After some correction
Hood polished
Outside, Finally some sunshine
Wheels looking better with AJT
The camera shot
Exhaust looking better
My regulatory under the spoiler shot.
That’s about it, thanks for looking.
The Process was kept pretty simple, a mixture of a rotary and DA, using a few polishes as I went along, trying out different combos. The majority of the correction was the same.
Pre soaked with APC 4to 1
Washed with Werstat Auto Body Wash using an Uber sponge and 2BM
Dried with Showroom FX WW towel
Clayed with Exclusive Blue, which left marring, but it was light and with the amount of overspray was needed
Polished with SIP, PF, UCCL, and green and yellow GI pads
Rotary was used on 2/3 of the car, with some areas light enough for a DA
Sealed with Werkstat Prime Strong
Wheels sealed with AJT and exhaust polished with Optimum Metal polish and Steel wool. Both of these were done by the owner.
No Befores as it was spitting outside, just during and afters.
General condition of the paint
50/50
Mirrors had no shine, none whatsoever. That had to get fixed
Before
After some correction
Hood polished
Outside, Finally some sunshine
Wheels looking better with AJT
The camera shot
Exhaust looking better
My regulatory under the spoiler shot.
That’s about it, thanks for looking.