WaxAddict
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Hello all! I have acquired a slightly used, locally-owned "no stories" 2018 Mustang GT which I`m surprisingly smitten with. The first order of business was to remove the custom tinted film on the lenses (which was scratched and not to my taste) and perform paint correction due to dealer car wash tunnel damage. Sorry, no real "before" pictures, but the paint was heavily contaminated and moderately swirled.
Products:
McKee`s universal detailing clay (highly recommended!) with PB Spray & Wipe as lube.
Menzerna 2500 with cyan HT and Rupes gray pads.
Menzerna 400 for spot repair using a LC 3" microfiber HDO cutting pad and occasionally just a 4" orange.
Menzerna 3800 using red HT or black CCS, to squeeze out that last 5% gloss.
Carpro Eraser.
Wolfgang DGPS over the entire car, two coats spaced at least 12 hours apart.
Various waxes per panel or per my mood, such as Lusso Oro, Dodo Blue Velvet, Beauty Shine 418, Colinite, even Adams Buttery!
Let`s start with the "done" picture.
On to those lenses: Notice the mess I was left with. I used (of all things) PB Bug Squash to remove the adhesive. It wasn`t the easiest product for this chore, but I thought it would be much safer than an adhesive remover or acetone on these soft lenses.
So here`s the 90% corrected lens. But see that bit of haze. It can get better.
This photo shows the improvement that a little time with polish on a red HT pad can make (see yellow dashed line).
On to the rear lenses. Each segment had it`s on "sticker". What a pain this was!
A few months ago, I posted a question about correcting this soft piano-black decklid. I got some great advice, and I cautiously got to work. As I said in that post, I could smell plastic melting as I corrected this. A very precocious task, that happily came out nice.
On to the paint. My cheap-but-calibrated paint meter told be I had healthy paint thickness, which I`d expect for a car not even a year old. Just wanted to make sure no amateurs with rotaries had been playing.
I don`t have much of a story to tell for the polishing. Uneventful. Here`s a shot with that Rupes gray pad on my GG6. Also note the front grill piece, also in piano black, corrected by hand with a 4" orange pad and trusty Menz 2500.
Some of us still use wax!!!!!
Thanks for looking
Products:
McKee`s universal detailing clay (highly recommended!) with PB Spray & Wipe as lube.
Menzerna 2500 with cyan HT and Rupes gray pads.
Menzerna 400 for spot repair using a LC 3" microfiber HDO cutting pad and occasionally just a 4" orange.
Menzerna 3800 using red HT or black CCS, to squeeze out that last 5% gloss.
Carpro Eraser.
Wolfgang DGPS over the entire car, two coats spaced at least 12 hours apart.
Various waxes per panel or per my mood, such as Lusso Oro, Dodo Blue Velvet, Beauty Shine 418, Colinite, even Adams Buttery!
Let`s start with the "done" picture.
On to those lenses: Notice the mess I was left with. I used (of all things) PB Bug Squash to remove the adhesive. It wasn`t the easiest product for this chore, but I thought it would be much safer than an adhesive remover or acetone on these soft lenses.
So here`s the 90% corrected lens. But see that bit of haze. It can get better.
This photo shows the improvement that a little time with polish on a red HT pad can make (see yellow dashed line).
On to the rear lenses. Each segment had it`s on "sticker". What a pain this was!
A few months ago, I posted a question about correcting this soft piano-black decklid. I got some great advice, and I cautiously got to work. As I said in that post, I could smell plastic melting as I corrected this. A very precocious task, that happily came out nice.
On to the paint. My cheap-but-calibrated paint meter told be I had healthy paint thickness, which I`d expect for a car not even a year old. Just wanted to make sure no amateurs with rotaries had been playing.
I don`t have much of a story to tell for the polishing. Uneventful. Here`s a shot with that Rupes gray pad on my GG6. Also note the front grill piece, also in piano black, corrected by hand with a 4" orange pad and trusty Menz 2500.
Some of us still use wax!!!!!
Thanks for looking
