cupra_clark
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No rest for the wicked as they say, and following straight on from the 360 at the weekend was a Jaguar XKR (i forgot to take a before pic of the car, but it was pretty clean already!).
The owner was after full paint correction and an LSP that he could maintain himself
So with the car washed & dried, these were the defects i could see in the sunshine:
Not too bad (or so i thought!), just looked like wash marring more than anything so i'd hoped it was be a nice easy detail
The car was generally in very good condition but had a couple of noticeable scratches, one on the nearside rear quarter:
And a couple of quite deep scuffs/nicks in the offside front wing:
These were the only bits that got your attention when looking at the car so i decided to wet sand them before putting it inside for polishing, as it would have been a shame to leave them there, after pics can be seen a little further down the post, i didnt bother taking pics during the sanding as we all know what it looks like by now
Once inside it was obvious that the defects were worse under the halogens than even the sun had shown outside, the car was covered in RIDS and cob-webbing:
Paint readings were taken & the car was a healthy 150-220microns, with the front end showing signs of a re-spray (a very good one too, very little signs of any paintwork at all), although the rear bumper was a scary 45-60 microns - this got HD Cleansed twice and left at that, annoying but i wasnt prepared to take anything abrasive to it and risk striking through
Being Jaguar paint (pretty soft) i decided to try 106ff on a polishing pad
@1500rpm's first to see how much it would correct the paint by, as this worked for us before on an X-Type, but the paint pretty much laughed at this, which surprised me a little...
So i stepped up to IP 3.02 on a Meguiars polishing pad @ 1700rpms and this pretty much corrected every panel to nearly 100% within 2 attempts, although the weather got a lot cooler and the polish started to be a pain in the a$$ at times, resulting in slight holograms as i couldnt finish down properly due to the panels getting a tad hot. It was safer to just follow up with 85RD on a finishing pad later
Here's a couple of pics to show the level of correction achieved:
nearside front wing before:
nearside front wing after:
The owner was after full paint correction and an LSP that he could maintain himself
So with the car washed & dried, these were the defects i could see in the sunshine:
Not too bad (or so i thought!), just looked like wash marring more than anything so i'd hoped it was be a nice easy detail
The car was generally in very good condition but had a couple of noticeable scratches, one on the nearside rear quarter:
And a couple of quite deep scuffs/nicks in the offside front wing:
These were the only bits that got your attention when looking at the car so i decided to wet sand them before putting it inside for polishing, as it would have been a shame to leave them there, after pics can be seen a little further down the post, i didnt bother taking pics during the sanding as we all know what it looks like by now
Once inside it was obvious that the defects were worse under the halogens than even the sun had shown outside, the car was covered in RIDS and cob-webbing:
Paint readings were taken & the car was a healthy 150-220microns, with the front end showing signs of a re-spray (a very good one too, very little signs of any paintwork at all), although the rear bumper was a scary 45-60 microns - this got HD Cleansed twice and left at that, annoying but i wasnt prepared to take anything abrasive to it and risk striking through
Being Jaguar paint (pretty soft) i decided to try 106ff on a polishing pad
@1500rpm's first to see how much it would correct the paint by, as this worked for us before on an X-Type, but the paint pretty much laughed at this, which surprised me a little...
So i stepped up to IP 3.02 on a Meguiars polishing pad @ 1700rpms and this pretty much corrected every panel to nearly 100% within 2 attempts, although the weather got a lot cooler and the polish started to be a pain in the a$$ at times, resulting in slight holograms as i couldnt finish down properly due to the panels getting a tad hot. It was safer to just follow up with 85RD on a finishing pad later
Here's a couple of pics to show the level of correction achieved:
nearside front wing before:
nearside front wing after:
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