On the slate was this cool car today, had a TV built into the dash! As it seems with most imported Japanese cars, this one was pretty bad on the exterior. Spent a while on this one today, and M105 was really trying to anger me all day. It would practically bake itself onto the paint uber fast, and was impossible to remove almost. Did the job though, but this paint was definitely hard, most areas took M105 on a wool pad via rotary x2 to clear up most of the marring. A few RIDS and some scratches were left after, but its a noticeable difference from before. I spent about 1-2 hours on the interior, and about 6 hours actually polishing, plus other various activites (wash/clay, removing decals, etc) that put me at a total of 10-11 hours I believe.
Onto the pics!
Befores
Here we have our bird bombed subject
Two of a few decals that I had to remove as well.
No clarity or gloss in this paint at all.
After the wash, the sun decided to poke out for a bit, so I grabbed some shots of the paint in the sunlight after claying.
A few shots of the interior, it wasn't that bad in shape, but the leather needed some cleaning and conditioning for sure.
Trunk had some staining.
For the interior, it got a full vacuum, wiped down plastics + vinyls with 10:1 cut APC, and dressed plastics + vinyls with 303. Q-tips and a thin boarshair brush were used to get into the vents and other small areas. Carpets were cleaned with Folex and extracted with water and my shop vac. Leather was cleaned with a 10:1 water/Woolite mixture, then conditioned with Lexol conditioner.
Mats before
Afters
Mats extracted
Trunk cleaned and extracted
Interior afters
Alright lets move onto the exterior
The work space for today.
I tried Optimum Compound on a orange LC pad to start and it wasn't doing much, so I stepped it up to the wool + M105 via rotary. Most of the car required two passes of M105 to clear all of the marring. Followed up with Optimum Polish on a white LC pad via rotary to clean up the holograms and micromarring from the wool. Rewashed the vehicle to get rid of all polishing dust and oils. Finished off by sealing the car with KSG, and S100 on top of that.
All the dusting from M105.......
Left portion of the hood is after M105 + wool, middle and other side are untouched. Noticeable haze.
Final polishing with OP on a white LC pad.
And the completed paint
Wheels got KSG as well, plastic trim got 303, exterior metal trim was hand polished with E1 Nano Metal Polish and glass was cleaned with Stoners IG.
Super reflective and wet
Onto the pics!
Befores
Here we have our bird bombed subject
Two of a few decals that I had to remove as well.
No clarity or gloss in this paint at all.
After the wash, the sun decided to poke out for a bit, so I grabbed some shots of the paint in the sunlight after claying.
A few shots of the interior, it wasn't that bad in shape, but the leather needed some cleaning and conditioning for sure.
Trunk had some staining.
For the interior, it got a full vacuum, wiped down plastics + vinyls with 10:1 cut APC, and dressed plastics + vinyls with 303. Q-tips and a thin boarshair brush were used to get into the vents and other small areas. Carpets were cleaned with Folex and extracted with water and my shop vac. Leather was cleaned with a 10:1 water/Woolite mixture, then conditioned with Lexol conditioner.
Mats before
Afters
Mats extracted
Trunk cleaned and extracted
Interior afters
Alright lets move onto the exterior
The work space for today.
I tried Optimum Compound on a orange LC pad to start and it wasn't doing much, so I stepped it up to the wool + M105 via rotary. Most of the car required two passes of M105 to clear all of the marring. Followed up with Optimum Polish on a white LC pad via rotary to clean up the holograms and micromarring from the wool. Rewashed the vehicle to get rid of all polishing dust and oils. Finished off by sealing the car with KSG, and S100 on top of that.
All the dusting from M105.......
Left portion of the hood is after M105 + wool, middle and other side are untouched. Noticeable haze.
Final polishing with OP on a white LC pad.
And the completed paint
Wheels got KSG as well, plastic trim got 303, exterior metal trim was hand polished with E1 Nano Metal Polish and glass was cleaned with Stoners IG.
Super reflective and wet
