X-treme makeover - NISSAN TIIDA Shine edition!

[zckid]

Hello friends!

Greetings from sunny Mauritius
But before we start, could you guess the color of this car?

A hint

Another one

A better clue, but guess this part of the ride

This is what I had to do a paint correction on.

No beading, no sheeting, no protection, just water clinging on all surfaces and a flake-off while washing the car…. Permanent damage

Whole car washed using 2BM method, MF washmitt, car shampoo and APC mix, and finally dried with MF towels, all available locally


Claying

Ready for inspection

Feeling blessed! The sun was here! Looking for defects was so easy 

Close-up

More…. Too many

The infamous RIDS and Scratches
The side-mirror

Many… many of them….

Textured paint, orange peel, pits and pores, blurriness etc….

More and more

we really know how much you care :wall caring less is better

& now we are ready for real fun.

 

[zckid]

The headlights

The right side before

After

The left side

before

The afters

To the most sought after part of the ride… paintwork :yay


Tools n equipment:

Compounding: Optimum hyper compound, carpro denim pads, optimum double-sided wool pad
Polishing: menzerna 203s, LC white pad
Finishing: Menzerna PO85rd, LC black and LC Red HT pads
LSP: Menz Powerlock , wipedown with the softest towel (yellow) I had locally


CarPro pads effective but dangerous too.

Voilà !

close-up

close-up

Compounding after paint leveled

Refined

Further refined :inspector:

 

[zckid]

Before

Close-up

After

Blurriness gone

Look carefully, the permanent damage in focus

50-50

During

After

Friends in need

the side Mirrors

Mirror - Mirror

Glow with sunset

A detail in another detail

The boss inspecting :inspector:

close-up

the doors

 

[zckid]

What’s your favorite color?

house on wheels

Mirror house

Water test

Hydrophobic-ity
(These are the last set of pictures, after sun shots and mirror shots)

:nomore: Saved some sun shots as the sun loves to play with the clouds here rops:

The door sides

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extreme close-up

The roof

When others envy your ride’s shine, it’s BeyondShine.

My appreciation and thanks go to all of the friends who have helped me with their advice, their detailed posts and instructions, their videos and the hands-on experience from which I learned a lot. :iagree:

Thanks for viewing, your comments and thoughts are most welcome. :bigups

Zaid

 

[GearHead_1]

Very nice!

 

[mnehls86]

Awesome Job. But what the hell happened to your finger! Sharp edge somewhere on the car?

 

[jtford95]

Great turn around! Great color too!

 

[Klock]

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

 

[zckid]

Awesome Job. But what the hell happened to your finger! Sharp edge somewhere on the car?

thanks for kind words bro

Yes. i hurt myself with the number plate. but feeling so much better after seeing the transformation, thanks God.

 

[zckid]

Very nice!

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

Great turn around! Great color too!

thanks a lot for your kind encouraging words.

 

[Todd@RUPES]

Very nice! Vega@Autopia loves all things Nissan! :bigups

 

[Pats300zx]

Awesome job !!!! Love the beading shots.

 

[zckid]

Awesome job !!!! Love the beading shots.

Thanks a lot buddy. Menzerna beads :bigups

Very nice! Vega@Autopia loves all things Nissan! :bigups

Thanks Todd. twice thanks for sharing your way of using the denim pads to reduce orange peel. :bigups :bigups

Game Changing Performance: CarPro Denim Orange Peel Pad Review

It helped me a lot, this is the first car I used the denim pads and fg400 on all panels. I tried to copy how you used the denim pads but in the end I had to have my own to get the best out the pads and polish while achieving a high gloss.

speed 1400 - 1500 and a little pressure. work in small areas and check, working on adjacent panels and check again, If it were not satisfactory, correct after panels cool down. I used the rotary in arc movements rather than straight horizontal and vertical passes. and keep the pad flat at all times.

cheers and have nice detailing time over there :bigups