Peugeot 206 Bodyshop Shocker.. Fixed!!

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imported_Dave KG

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Well this car was a shock indeed... First thing to point out is that this car has been "professionally" machine polished by a bodyshop. When I heard about the car, I though "hmmm, maybe a few holograms then but nothing too bad surely". Then I turned up at Bryan's this morning, and I swear the car must have been machined with wet and dry paper. Sit back, enjoy!



No before photos of this one I'm afraid, Bryan prepped the car last night for polishing with a wash, and clay, wheels clean and arches with Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care:







So with the car prepared, it was straight to work on the polishing. First up was the bonnet, and this was one of the best areas on the car yet there was still a combination of swilrs and holograms there, as seen in the before pics:











I decided to run with Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze on a W8006 polishing pad by rotary. One pass at 600rpm to spread, two passes at 900rpm then eight to ten passes at 1500rpm followed by two passes at 900rpm to refine. The results of one set:







So with #80 working well, I decided to use this method round the whole car, Bryan joining in doing the roof now that he has his rotary too, and cutting in the tight areas by PC! :thumb: On some areas, two sets were required of #80 in order to fully removethe hologramming and swilrs (yep, it really was that bad the hologramming!). A few choice areas from around the car:
 
Once the car was completed with #80, either one set or two, I then used Meguiars #3 Machine Glaze on a W9006 Finishing pad to refine the finish, applied with one pass at 600rpm, seven or eight passes at 1200rpm and then two at 900rpm. Paintwork the finished off with Meguiars #26 Yellow wax for protection.



Wheels were waxed with Smartwax Rim Wax, glass done with Meguiars Glass Cleaner Concertrate (diluted), tyres with Meguiars Endurance. Thankfully the weather played ball so we could roll the car out into the best light of all for checking for holograms, direct sun:























Happy with the finish now, the car will be returning to the supplying dealer who sent it away to the bodyshop for polishing to compare what we achieved with what the bodyshop got (the bodyshop having charged upwards of £200 for the polish job it should be noted)...



And a couple of completed shots of the car:











And finally, just for Brazo, a tree shot!:



 
Wow, looked like someone was in a bad mood, and then decided to attack the car with a wool pad at maximum rpm's :eek:



How some people can charge money for work like that and not be ashamed is beyond me.



But luckily the car found you Dave :)
 
Fantastic work KG. Do you measure how much paint you take off on a job like that?



more proof that it takes a pro to really mess up a cars paint - and have the cheek to charge for it!!!



I saw a black Saab polished professionally with holograms like you wouldnt believe. Was tempted to offer to sort it but I think the driver was quite happy with it - pretty dire really!!!
 
Dave Pickett said:
Fantastic work KG. Do you measure how much paint you take off on a job like that?
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Around 5um of paint was removed across the car - some areas a little more where there was also swirling, but never any more than 10um was removed and that was on the double sets.
 
Dave KG said:
Around 5um of paint was removed across the car - some areas a little more where there was also swirling, but never any more than 10um was removed and that was on the double sets.
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first off...the car looks awsome!!



second...how do you measure that? I would like to get to that level of quality with out overdoing it.
 
land234 said:
first off...the car looks awsome!!



second...how do you measure that? I would like to get to that level of quality with out overdoing it.
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Thank you. :)



To measure the paint thickness removed you need to use a paint thickness gauge. Yu need to be very thorough with where you masured from before as paint thickess varies a lot... I tend to mark a point on masking tape and measure next to it. I will measure about ten reading around a very small point (repeated over several areas) and take an average and stadard dev. Repeat after polishing and do the same ten measurements, take average and standard dev. Then subtract to get the removal... Gauage error is +/-2um, but standard deviation can account for this. The full removal figures were roughly 5+/-2um on average across the car. (Sorry, I'm a physicist, I have long and convoluted ways of doing things!! lol)
 
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