Paint Finishing Picture Contest

[elemental]

Finally Got A PC - 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse

 

[MYC5VERT]

Ahh what the heck, here goes

*edit - Pinnacle Signature Series II Carnauba Paste Wax was last step.

 

[Black Diamond]

The process:

Wash with NXT Car wash
Clay with Meguiar's Fine Clay Kit
Wash with NXT Car Wash

Wheels/Tires:

P21S Wheel Cleaner
Eimann Fabrik Tire Cleaner
Meguiar's Endurance Natural Look X 2

Polish:
As you will see from the pictures, the paint needed a lot of correction although my truck was in fair shape.

-Meguiar's #83 Dual Action Cleaner Polish with a PC and Lake Country Orange Light Cutting Pad -Speed 5
-Meguiar's #80 Speed Glaze with a PC with a lake Country White Polishing Pad - Speed 5
-Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze - For some reason I decided to try this with my PC and it did not work well. I should know better. Lake Country White Polising Pad - Speed 5
-Meguiar's #21 Synthetic Sealant X 2 applied by hand and buffed with a Microfiber Bonnet - Speed 5.
-Danase' Wet Look Glaze by hand and buffed with a Microfiber Towel
-P21s Wax applied by hand and wiped with a Microfiber Towel.

First 4 are Before:
5 is During:
Last 2 are After:

I spent an aweful amount of time on paint correction, but as you can see, it was well worth it.

 

[Troy@Protekt]

Interesting hair-do in the reflection. :rofl

 

[Black Diamond]

LOL! Yeah everyone has said that! Everything to the head eating bush monster!
Ah well, just another Kodak moment!

 

[Troy@Protekt]

This thread was loading way too slow so I turned all the pics into attachments. Sorry if I messed up your posts, just trying to make this thread easier to view.

 

[Beemerboy]

This is an older model Trooper single stage paint...before and afters

Compound...3M light cut compound....wool pad on a rotary
Polish...Poorboy's Pro-polish PB....foam polishing pad with the rotary
Wax... Poorboy's Nattys Paste Wax....by hand

 

[Troy@Protekt]

This is an older model Trooper single stage paint...before and afters

Light cut compound, wool pad on a rotary
Polish, foam polishing pad with the rotary
Paste Wax by hand

Which one is the before and which one is the after?


:gotcha: Nice work."picture"

 

[Beemerboy]

Which one is the before and which one is the after?


:gotcha: Nice work."picture"

Thanks Troy I''ll let you guess....I looked at all the pics submitted...all are of newer cars...I wanted to show an older car that I turned back to new...SS paint can really come back to life if done right...I think I passed that test

 

[Troy@Protekt]

Voting has started. Winner will be announced Tuesday officially.