2009 Nissan GTR. Owner recently purchased the vehicle and it was pretty deeply swirled. After talking it over with the owner of the car, we decided "big improvement" would be the way to go for now. He does have a PC and some nice detailing products (Optimum, Chemical Guys) so he should be able to keep it looking good from here on out. Yes, that is a quart of ONR you can see in a couple of the pictures.
Sorry, no before shots. It was in the upper 90s and I did the compounding and first polishing step in the sun. I just wanted to get going on it. The wheels really needed to come off the car to be properly cleaned, apparently the original owner never bothered to clean the barrels...ever. Did what I could with them on the car. There were also some water spots etched into the roof that didn't budge. Not sure how the hood and trunk lid escaped the same fate. Really odd that the problem was only in the roof.
Started off as always with an ONR wash and Opti-Raser clay sponge to get ready for polishing.
Both Optimum Hyper Compound and Meguiars #105 were a bit too aggressive with a microfiber cutting pad, was getting a lot hazing although of the most deeply swirled areas, I went back and forth between the two, they seemed pretty evenly matched on this paint. Finally settled on #105 and an Optimum orange foam cutting pad and my PC 7424 XP. That seemed to remove the swirls a touch slower than OHC and the same pad but with less hazing. I then went with Meguiars #205 using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad and my PC. After those two steps and satisfied the paint was a final polishing step away from being LSP ready, I pulled it into the garage and gave it another ONR wash to remove the compounding dust. I then went with 3M Ultrafina using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad, then applied 3D HD Poxy by hand. While waiting for Poxy to set up, I went back over the tires with Armor All, then polished the exhaust tips with Optimum Metal Polish. Went back over the glass with ONR at QD strength.
The car isn't 100% perfect but it was a tremendous improvement. I probably would have used my rotary if it had been a balls to the wall full correction. But for about 6 hours (5 of that was compounding or polishing!) and given the original condition I think it turned out really good.
Sorry, no before shots. It was in the upper 90s and I did the compounding and first polishing step in the sun. I just wanted to get going on it. The wheels really needed to come off the car to be properly cleaned, apparently the original owner never bothered to clean the barrels...ever. Did what I could with them on the car. There were also some water spots etched into the roof that didn't budge. Not sure how the hood and trunk lid escaped the same fate. Really odd that the problem was only in the roof.
Started off as always with an ONR wash and Opti-Raser clay sponge to get ready for polishing.
Both Optimum Hyper Compound and Meguiars #105 were a bit too aggressive with a microfiber cutting pad, was getting a lot hazing although of the most deeply swirled areas, I went back and forth between the two, they seemed pretty evenly matched on this paint. Finally settled on #105 and an Optimum orange foam cutting pad and my PC 7424 XP. That seemed to remove the swirls a touch slower than OHC and the same pad but with less hazing. I then went with Meguiars #205 using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad and my PC. After those two steps and satisfied the paint was a final polishing step away from being LSP ready, I pulled it into the garage and gave it another ONR wash to remove the compounding dust. I then went with 3M Ultrafina using a Meguiars yellow foam polishing pad, then applied 3D HD Poxy by hand. While waiting for Poxy to set up, I went back over the tires with Armor All, then polished the exhaust tips with Optimum Metal Polish. Went back over the glass with ONR at QD strength.
The car isn't 100% perfect but it was a tremendous improvement. I probably would have used my rotary if it had been a balls to the wall full correction. But for about 6 hours (5 of that was compounding or polishing!) and given the original condition I think it turned out really good.
