So then as mentioned above, I spent some time (15 hours) a couple of weekends back getting the paint on the BG somewhere near where i want it.
Process was:
Rinse the car
Snow foam
clean shuts, window seals etc with APC whilst the foam was dwelling
Rinse Foam
Washed using zymol auto bathe
Iron X'd lower halfs, tailgate and wheels
Rinsed
Clayed
Washed again
Taken inside to get a feel for what I was in for.
I used a Yellow 3m Pad with a test session for some chemical guys & poor boys products. However they both turned out to be crap, so used some remains of menzerna I had lying around to finish the car off.
I did a final finish with menzerna via a blue 3m pad.
Once the polishing was done it was dusted down and given a coat of dodo juice blue velvet wax. I couldnt find my zymol so had to make do with that for now.
Heres some pics anyhow, check out those swirls
This is what I'm dealing with:
The drivers rear quarter has some rather dodgy sanding marks in, must of had some paint in the past
This is the roof, automatic car wash anyone? :banghead:
Tailgate, not too bad
Passenger rear quarter
Bonnet
After 1 pass on the bonnet
Some other randoms showing the level of correction I got, I'd say probably around 70% Correction compared with what I started with, unfortunately I had to have the car out by 7.00pm on the sunday, so I think another full weekend on the paintwork should sort it out and I reckon I can get between 90-95% correction on the panels.
So this was a few days later, I ran out of time to get pics on the sunday, so these were around 4 days later with a bit of fly killing action on the front end
So thats it, oh forgot to mention got my private plate from the silver cup onto it now too
looks soo much better.
An update on the cars present state:
On axle stands as I await a refund on my suspension, whether there was a problem with the rear end of the spax I'm yet to find out but I just couldnt get them to perform as I would expect a normal coilover to perform, they were too stiff/bouncy no matter what height I had them set at
. Hopefully Dan@519automotive can get that done swiftly enough.
I'm probably looking to go full trophy suspension set up on it, or H&R's however the set I've planned on getting aint going to be possible to get for the next 6-7 weeks which would leave me up the creak without the car.
Whilst it's on axle stands I'm cleaning the arches out and going to give the insides of the wheels a good clean as they're minging after 8 years of road crap on them
Thanks for looking