One of clients had asked for paint correction on two of his Lamborghinis. Knowing that this was going to take a while I called up Todd Cooperider to come and give me a hand and its a good thing I did because the paint on these cars was more that difficult to work with. Todd Cooperider is an amazing detailer and his ability to read paint and shoot for only perfection are some of the many things that set him above many detailers. While we were working on these cars two more lamborghinis came up that needed paint correction. So this turned into 3 weeks of paint correction on four lambos which was a huge learning process for me.
We first looked at the Murci which had been worked on by a local detailer less than a year ago. After looking at the paint we soon learned that this guy had no idea what he was doing, and to cover it up he was selling monthly upkeep to glaze the car and cover up all the defects. Once we got the lights out here is what the hood looked like.
As you can see this paint looks horrible. The detailer that worked on this obvisously had no idea what he was doing. The first thing we see is tons of swirls that are all in a big circular direction. A sign that this detailer used one and only one system when doing paint correction. He didnt know how you read paint and use different products for different types of paint. Not only did he use the wrong method and products but he also only did the upper surfaces, you could see where he stopped with his giant wool pad and the sides actually looked better than the top surfaces because he didnt destroy them with his shady ways. Another thing we noticed was that the buffer trails were huge, it looked like he was using an 8 inch pad. So to cover up his terrible work he was just using glaze on it once a month to keep it looking good.
We washed the car down to remove any glaze left over and also did some claying. The paint was not that dirty so this did not take that long.
After the wash Todd got to work trying different product and pad to see what was going to work the best on this paint.
Notice Todd is using the Festool PC with a Surbuf pad. He found that using the Surbuf pad and M105 was just about the only method that would take all of the defects out. Todd noticed that anything and everything he was using to finish down the paint was still maring it up and leaving it hazy. After trying many method he decided that the only method that finished down nice was using a PC and Scholls S40. This paint was very hard to work with. It was hard to correct and even harder to finish down. It was extremely soft, even looking at the paint seemed to swirl it up. Very odd for a paint to be hard to remove defect but at the same time so soft it was hard to finish down nicely. Here is the hood after testing.
Now that is how the paint is suppose to look. While Todd worked on the hood i started hit some other areas of the car with the Meguiars MF pad and some D300.
After we got all the compounding done we started our finishing polishing. The do this we both used black pad with Scholls S40.
So after many hours of polishing and just about an hour worth of testing we ended up with this. But we could not use a machine to apply any sort of protectant because it just mared the paint up again. So Todd busted out his Swiszax Crystal Rock (which costs $1500) which gave it a beautiful finish and left it protected.
Although it was just me and Todd we brought one hell of a army of PCs and Rotarys.
We first looked at the Murci which had been worked on by a local detailer less than a year ago. After looking at the paint we soon learned that this guy had no idea what he was doing, and to cover it up he was selling monthly upkeep to glaze the car and cover up all the defects. Once we got the lights out here is what the hood looked like.
As you can see this paint looks horrible. The detailer that worked on this obvisously had no idea what he was doing. The first thing we see is tons of swirls that are all in a big circular direction. A sign that this detailer used one and only one system when doing paint correction. He didnt know how you read paint and use different products for different types of paint. Not only did he use the wrong method and products but he also only did the upper surfaces, you could see where he stopped with his giant wool pad and the sides actually looked better than the top surfaces because he didnt destroy them with his shady ways. Another thing we noticed was that the buffer trails were huge, it looked like he was using an 8 inch pad. So to cover up his terrible work he was just using glaze on it once a month to keep it looking good.
We washed the car down to remove any glaze left over and also did some claying. The paint was not that dirty so this did not take that long.
After the wash Todd got to work trying different product and pad to see what was going to work the best on this paint.
Notice Todd is using the Festool PC with a Surbuf pad. He found that using the Surbuf pad and M105 was just about the only method that would take all of the defects out. Todd noticed that anything and everything he was using to finish down the paint was still maring it up and leaving it hazy. After trying many method he decided that the only method that finished down nice was using a PC and Scholls S40. This paint was very hard to work with. It was hard to correct and even harder to finish down. It was extremely soft, even looking at the paint seemed to swirl it up. Very odd for a paint to be hard to remove defect but at the same time so soft it was hard to finish down nicely. Here is the hood after testing.
Now that is how the paint is suppose to look. While Todd worked on the hood i started hit some other areas of the car with the Meguiars MF pad and some D300.
After we got all the compounding done we started our finishing polishing. The do this we both used black pad with Scholls S40.
So after many hours of polishing and just about an hour worth of testing we ended up with this. But we could not use a machine to apply any sort of protectant because it just mared the paint up again. So Todd busted out his Swiszax Crystal Rock (which costs $1500) which gave it a beautiful finish and left it protected.
Although it was just me and Todd we brought one hell of a army of PCs and Rotarys.
