This car let me learned a very big lesson on filler product this is used on cars. This MX5 is about 1 year plus old and when the owner collected the car from the dealer, he came straight down to let me take a look at the car. Under bright sunlight, I can see some very minor swirls on the bonnet and the body of the car. Knowing that it came straight from the dealer, I am not surprised that the dealer used filler product to hide some of the swirls and minor scratches, so I believed there were more defects on the paint work as compare to what I saw.
2 weeks later when the car came for the detailing session, I almost fainted upon seeing the paint condition on the car. There were lots of swirls and hologram all over the car. I expected something worse but not that bad. It really surprised me how effective a filler product can work on a car and it really worked wonders on this car when I saw it 2 weeks ago. In my mind I was wondering what filler product did the dealer used, it really worked very well in hiding all the swirls and hologram.
Immediately I get started off with the work and here’s the process I took to remove the defects,
1) wash with JW Autobody Wash
2) Clay with JW claybar
3) Power Gloss + cutting pad + rotary @ 1500rpm certain areas
4) Power Gloss + cutting pad + DA @ speed 5
5) PO106FF + polishing pad + DA @ speed 4.5
And here are the before and after photos,
Before
After
Before
After
After this I applied Prime Carnauba with a MF applicator pad working panel by panel to finish up the whole car. Then followed by Acrylic Jett applied with a plush MF towel and WOW did the car turned out super WET.
2 weeks later when the car came for the detailing session, I almost fainted upon seeing the paint condition on the car. There were lots of swirls and hologram all over the car. I expected something worse but not that bad. It really surprised me how effective a filler product can work on a car and it really worked wonders on this car when I saw it 2 weeks ago. In my mind I was wondering what filler product did the dealer used, it really worked very well in hiding all the swirls and hologram.
Immediately I get started off with the work and here’s the process I took to remove the defects,
1) wash with JW Autobody Wash
2) Clay with JW claybar
3) Power Gloss + cutting pad + rotary @ 1500rpm certain areas
4) Power Gloss + cutting pad + DA @ speed 5
5) PO106FF + polishing pad + DA @ speed 4.5
And here are the before and after photos,
Before
After
Before
After
After this I applied Prime Carnauba with a MF applicator pad working panel by panel to finish up the whole car. Then followed by Acrylic Jett applied with a plush MF towel and WOW did the car turned out super WET.
