Gen 5 Accord Detail

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Tasty

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I ran out of daylight to get all the after pics I wanted, but here are some of the nasty before pics. This was easily the worst car exterior I've ever worked on. Clearcoat failure all over the place so I pretty much gave up polishing because it honestly wasn't worth the effort. Sap piles everywhere, and numerous horrible touch up spots where the owner has run into things. Some spots were easily an inch wide by 5 inches long painted with the little finger polish touch up brush and just left to dry. Interior was much easier than I expected. Here was the process, after shots coming soon.



Wash with Meguiar's Gold Class

Clay with Clay Magic

Polish major blemishes with SSR 2.5 on yellow Propel via PC at speed 5

Door pillars and plastic restored with AIO

Side and rocker trim with Back to Black

Gold Class Liquid via black Propel on PC speed 3



Befores



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Nice surprise in the trunk area, it surrounded the whole weatherstrip



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Door pillar with AIO, obvious before and after



After of Trunk



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The dull areas are the dead clearcoat areas
 
i got a question about those door pillars. are those really painted? or just black plastic. mine are faded too and i was wondering the best way to bring them back to life
 
I think they are painted. The black area on the rear doors is a plastic insert, but I think the pillars are painted. I used Klasse AIO by hand and it worked great. Especially on the rear doors, it was amazing.
 
HighFidelity said:
i got a question about those door pillars. are those really painted? or just black plastic. mine are faded too and i was wondering the best way to bring them back to life
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They are painted on mine. Just be very careful, it is extremely thin paint.
 
Yeah, I had to back off a little because it actually seemed like I was going through the paint. Not sure if there was just that much bad paint on there, or if I actually was.
 
:eek: Ugh. How can someone let an Accord get that bad? They run forever, makes good sense to take care of the cosmetics too.



Looks like you did what you could-any more pics?
 
I'm hopefully gonna get some after pics tomorrow. Haven't been able to with the wife at work and baby keepin' me busy.
 
Tasty said:
Yeah, I had to back off a little because it actually seemed like I was going through the paint. Not sure if there was just that much bad paint on there, or if I actually was.
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Try some P21s or S100 to get the shine out. Worked on my 92 Accord's with no polishing.
 
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