cupra_clark
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Well, another day and another detail, on this M3, for a full paint correction:
I'll skip the wash process as i'm pretty tired tonight and i'm sure most of you are familiar with our process anyways
So onto the paint correction....
The car was reading a healthy amount of paint all round (90-120 on average) and the only panel which appeared to have been re-sprayed was the offside front wing, which was handy as i was going to need a decent amount of paint to play with to remove as much defects as i could:
The paint work was pretty much fecked! Ruth and her boyfriend were over from Ireland and popped in past for a chat - they will vouch for just how bad the paint was as the pics dont show the half of it, the car had car wash bristles stuck in the vents and the owner had admitted to previously using a brush on the car etc..
I initially started out with Menzerna IP 3.02 with the rotary but the lubricants in the polish were playing up a wee bit which gave the odd buffer hop and resulted in the panels getting pretty damn hot, so i changed over to a different polish i've been playing with for the last few weeks - 3M's Perfect-it III Machine Polish. This was worked at 1700rpm's with moderate pressure to begin with for the first few passes and then i eased up on the pressure for the remaining passes, most panels received 2 hits but the defect removal was pretty impressive - much more than i was initially expecting:
50/50 shot of the bonnet:
A few random scratches remained but all in all, it was a big improvement
The bootlid was also pretty bad:
Again, with the 3M Polish this was the result after 2 hits:
I'll skip the wash process as i'm pretty tired tonight and i'm sure most of you are familiar with our process anyways
So onto the paint correction....
The car was reading a healthy amount of paint all round (90-120 on average) and the only panel which appeared to have been re-sprayed was the offside front wing, which was handy as i was going to need a decent amount of paint to play with to remove as much defects as i could:
The paint work was pretty much fecked! Ruth and her boyfriend were over from Ireland and popped in past for a chat - they will vouch for just how bad the paint was as the pics dont show the half of it, the car had car wash bristles stuck in the vents and the owner had admitted to previously using a brush on the car etc..
I initially started out with Menzerna IP 3.02 with the rotary but the lubricants in the polish were playing up a wee bit which gave the odd buffer hop and resulted in the panels getting pretty damn hot, so i changed over to a different polish i've been playing with for the last few weeks - 3M's Perfect-it III Machine Polish. This was worked at 1700rpm's with moderate pressure to begin with for the first few passes and then i eased up on the pressure for the remaining passes, most panels received 2 hits but the defect removal was pretty impressive - much more than i was initially expecting:
50/50 shot of the bonnet:
A few random scratches remained but all in all, it was a big improvement
The bootlid was also pretty bad:
Again, with the 3M Polish this was the result after 2 hits:
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