clio 197 paint correction/detail

[Chris205]

This car belongs to JAM1991 on here

It was done about 2 weeks ago but not had much time to write it up

Anyway car was pretty bad, i know james said his dad works near a steel mill or something so maybe because of that but we did our best on it and got probablies about an 80% correction on the paint

Process as follows

Plates off
Rinse
Snow Foamed
Rinsed
Washed with microfibre mitt
Shuts cleaned
Clayed with dodo supernatural and last touch as a lubricant
Dryed down
Taped up with masking tape (ran out of 3m)
Machine polished using flexipad and 3M pads, using menzerna and 3M compounds
Washed again
Dodo blue velvet applied with sonus pad
AG super resin on all glass apart from windscreen
Plastics (interior and exterior) dressed with poorboys natural look
Tyres dressed with megs high endurance
Alloy faces protected with poorboys wheel sealent (alloys were getting refurbed soon anyway)
Interior hoovered out

James wanted the clio badge off, so we heated that up and used some tar and glue remover on the resedue left over (snapped the O sorry mate lol)

Thinks thats it really

Really didnt get a lot of after pictures due to camera dying

Before

Rinsed, Snow foamed and washed

Lot of sanding marks on the car But they came out no problem

Clayed and de "clio" badged

Taped up

50/50

Then the camera died, forgot to charge both batteries up too

And the rest of the pictures are from his progress thread

Came out really nice but would of really liked to of wet sanded it when we get a paint depth gauge

Just need it on coilovers and them rims in anthracite now

*a couple of other pics from my other camera*

 

[Camble]

Looks great, what a transformation!

 

[Gally]

Good job mate, has the car been painted at some point?

Looks like flattening marks on the paint.

 

[RussZS]

Good work there, impressive turnaround

The marks on the paint look like claying marks, where not enough lube or a too aggressive clay bar has been used (not by you, but in the past?)

 

[Gally]

Could be, looks like flattening marks after being painted.

When polished they look like they are gone but on dark coloured cars they re-appear with heat.

 

[JAM1991]

Awesome job Chris thanks alot mate - and car never been painted - owned since new, and never clayed.

 

[Gally]

Possibly pre-delivery?

Trying to mop out some orange peel from the factory finish.

Car looks great mate.

 

[st3ve]

wow, the paint looked fecked on that, nice job.

 

[Chris205]

Good work there, impressive turnaround

The marks on the paint look like claying marks, where not enough lube or a too aggressive clay bar has been used (not by you, but in the past?)

Yeah I thought the same however it was like it before we'd even touched it with the clay, as soon as it was under the garage lights we could pick every detail up

 

[mwn11]

I want mine done!=[=[

Black cars are so nice clean!