I may only have one shot to do this right the first time. Need to clean the clear coat while keeping as much of it as I can on the car and polishing it up. I saw a booth with Mezerna's IP and AIO once and that was one K-A combo, truely.
The paint is a dark grey metallic.
Will be doing it by hand until I understand the vehicle better. May have to involve machines, but I'd rather not.
Here's what I'm dealing with. Bought last years model, a years worth of water spots on a new vehicle, pretty bad, 2 days of dealer detail a complete disaster with buffing wheel swirls and dents, upon repairing dents via paintless dent repair and a clear-in, they spray over almost entire car with clear coat, right over the bad detail job. Clear coat was very soft, now pretty brittle. Spots of overspray where they had taped off. I believe it can be polished out to brilliance. I'd insist they do it, but they are, umm, how do you say?, not qualified to be bowling pins. At least I will know what I have and can take it from there.
Point is, there is alot of decent quality paint and clear coat on the vehicle that may be salvagable with CORRECT polish and/or CLAY. But I want to look at it as a one shot deal,
do it right the first time. I'll give myself about 3 days to deal with it and have a good time.
Almost amusing in a sad way how the car looks so bad, but then once it's done it will
look soo soo good due to all the hard work and good elbow grease.
notice how every single panel is giving off a different hue above, I'm thinking much of this will be solved by cleaning up the clear coat contamination.
shiny, but sticky, brittle and murcky
Waiting 2 weeks from today to go for it, 45 day wait, I did do a panel with PI-dark this week, (cause it's what I have lying around) after putting #7 on entire car. Got about 85% of the surface clean without too much marring. That's the idea, but I'd like to see it a little cleaner.
PI and #7
Bottom line: my question: Mezerna's or Poorboys?? But I can even live with the 3M results if need be.
I will also pick up some clear coat clay, ((red stuff)) from Clay Magic.
I know this is sort of covered elsewhere, but this seemed like a mix of the two other threads.
This car will look good.
The paint is a dark grey metallic.
Will be doing it by hand until I understand the vehicle better. May have to involve machines, but I'd rather not.
Here's what I'm dealing with. Bought last years model, a years worth of water spots on a new vehicle, pretty bad, 2 days of dealer detail a complete disaster with buffing wheel swirls and dents, upon repairing dents via paintless dent repair and a clear-in, they spray over almost entire car with clear coat, right over the bad detail job. Clear coat was very soft, now pretty brittle. Spots of overspray where they had taped off. I believe it can be polished out to brilliance. I'd insist they do it, but they are, umm, how do you say?, not qualified to be bowling pins. At least I will know what I have and can take it from there.
Point is, there is alot of decent quality paint and clear coat on the vehicle that may be salvagable with CORRECT polish and/or CLAY. But I want to look at it as a one shot deal,
do it right the first time. I'll give myself about 3 days to deal with it and have a good time.
Almost amusing in a sad way how the car looks so bad, but then once it's done it will
look soo soo good due to all the hard work and good elbow grease.
notice how every single panel is giving off a different hue above, I'm thinking much of this will be solved by cleaning up the clear coat contamination.
shiny, but sticky, brittle and murcky
Waiting 2 weeks from today to go for it, 45 day wait, I did do a panel with PI-dark this week, (cause it's what I have lying around) after putting #7 on entire car. Got about 85% of the surface clean without too much marring. That's the idea, but I'd like to see it a little cleaner.
PI and #7
Bottom line: my question: Mezerna's or Poorboys?? But I can even live with the 3M results if need be.
I will also pick up some clear coat clay, ((red stuff)) from Clay Magic.
I know this is sort of covered elsewhere, but this seemed like a mix of the two other threads.
This car will look good.
IMO you can get away with one major correction of a Mazda's clear without any problems.