imported_Asphalt Rocket
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Just be happy nothing happened to the car. What car is that?
Lost a good one out there today...
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imported_Brian_Brice
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Yeah no kidding, but when you think about it, there's a real slim chance of damage to the paint occuring, unless it shot off the machine, and curved into the paint with a hard edge. All that happened was it shot straight to the ground and bounced in my lap, and the machine was never close to the paint. I could feel right before it seperated, and pulled the machine away.
It's a Maserati Quattroporte.
imported_Asphalt Rocket
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That car sounds familiar-lol
imported_Brian_Brice
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The entire horizontal surface is covered in deep mineral deposit etching, off to sanding we go. Dana, be glad I didn't need a hand on this one, there was a huge spider in the garage that I know would have scared you to death.
Before
After 105
Before
After
Door shuts being machine polished some more.
Leather care
Before
After 105
Before
After
Door shuts being machine polished some more.
Leather care
imported_Asphalt Rocket
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LOL, It is isn't spiders, it is the "rats" that bother me.
imported_Flash Gordon
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Brian, what is your sanding method if you don't mind me asking :toetap05:
imported_Brian_Brice
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PC, a prototype backing plate, and 3m trizact in the photo. Is that what you meant by method?
imported_Flash Gordon
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Yes, Trizact. I guess I should have made myself more clear. What grit combo are you using :spy:
Oh, and exactly how many hours of sleep do you average per day. I'm at about 6 hours. I'm afraid I will miss something Sleep
Todd@RUPES
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The Masi is coming out great. Sometimes you loose battles, but it is the war that is important. Cannot wait until its done!
imported_Brian_Brice
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I put in twelve more hours on this yesterday, until 4 am, but I am lazy by nature, so I am tough to wake up til the 7-8 hour mark of sleep.
imported_Brian_Brice
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Thanks Todd, it's gettin there bud. I have nomore heavy defect removal, and 75% of the car is final polished.
imported_Brian_Brice
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I might have actually taken that picture during the 1500 pass now that I look at it.
imported_Brian_Brice
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Few updates...
I have already sanded down all the touch ups and polished them out, just haven't taken pictures of them yet, it's the correct paint, but this metallic is so over powering that the touched up areeas look a little darker, but much better than big gashes in the paint.
I have already sanded down all the touch ups and polished them out, just haven't taken pictures of them yet, it's the correct paint, but this metallic is so over powering that the touched up areeas look a little darker, but much better than big gashes in the paint.
imported_Flash Gordon
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Your fighting the worst kinda battle. Gigantic gashes in the center of a door/panel and black heavy metallic 
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Good luck soldier :sarge
ut: Good luck soldier :sarge
imported_Brian_Brice
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Your fighting the worst kinda battle. Gigantic gashes in the center of a door/panel and black heavy metallic
Good luck soldier :sarge
You're absolutely right, the other nast gash is right on the edge of the fender well too.
Sill worth doing, as it stands pretty nasty, but I knew matching this paint in these areas was not going to be easy, vast improvement though.
Pre sanding.
imported_Brian_Brice
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The edge along the hood looked like someone dug into it with a knife, you can see fibers pretty clearly in these gouges.
Touched up
Touched up
imported_Brian_Brice
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I am so glad to be done with this car, but I must admit I rue giving the keys back 
imported_Brian_Brice
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You really have to remove the grill on this car, it gets so nasty in the deep pocket behind it.
imported_Brian_Brice
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I first washed it out with ONR, but wasn't effective enough to remove aged grime, so I used poorboys biodegrade and multiple brushes, then rinsed again with ONR solution.The painted surfaces were polished by hand and waxed with number 6 topped with number 16.