The Boosh!
ClioSport Admin
Elise, Duster
The GF was pestering me to machine polish her car... As it was pink. It was also full of dog hairs and had mud all over the seats. So a full/half arsed detail was required (she's a girl and wont notice the difference lol)...
So instead of spending 2+ days getting it perfect, i did a half arsed job
Time taken : 4 Hours
Difficulty: You would actually be suprised how hard it is to remove the oxidation from paint. You have to take away an immense amount of paint to cut it right back to the red.
Products used:
Before:
Car was then jet washed, snow foamed, washed with two bucket method and a megs wash mit and then dried down with a CYC drying towel.
As you may have been able to see from the above the car has got little paint specs on it where the previous owner decided to paint the fence next to the car :S After whipping the clay out and also trying some AG intensive tar remover i decided that i CBA and just machined over it.
If it was mine or a customers car i would have cracked out the agressive clay and the tardis and possibly even got the 3000 grit wet and dry out... But as mentioned. Half arsed ( she wont look after it anyway, cnut!)..
So anyway, finished pictures & some before and afters!
Before
During
(had to wack out the compounding pad and intensive polish on this as it was a c**t)
after
bonnet shot/reflection
And finally the finished article
Sorry for the lack of pictures... Never really planned on doing a write up but couldn't resist:clown: Not bad for 4 hours work anyway. Would need a couple of days spending on it and also a few things re spraying to get it to my standards though:dead:
Summary:
First time working on vauxhall paint and tbh its actually not that bad. Not too hard but you need to give it some stick with the rotary. Still prefer ford paint though
Cheers,
Luke
So instead of spending 2+ days getting it perfect, i did a half arsed job
Time taken : 4 Hours
Difficulty: You would actually be suprised how hard it is to remove the oxidation from paint. You have to take away an immense amount of paint to cut it right back to the red.
Products used:
- Kestral SIM180 rotory
- APC
- Snow foam
- megs gold class shampoo
- White spot compounding pad
- lake country cutting pad (yellow)
- Lake country refining pad (black)
- Menzerna power finish (AKA menzerna intensive polish:S)
- Menzerna super finish (AKA Menzerna Final finish)
- Carlack nano to stop the oxidation
- collonite 427
Before:
Car was then jet washed, snow foamed, washed with two bucket method and a megs wash mit and then dried down with a CYC drying towel.
As you may have been able to see from the above the car has got little paint specs on it where the previous owner decided to paint the fence next to the car :S After whipping the clay out and also trying some AG intensive tar remover i decided that i CBA and just machined over it.
If it was mine or a customers car i would have cracked out the agressive clay and the tardis and possibly even got the 3000 grit wet and dry out... But as mentioned. Half arsed ( she wont look after it anyway, cnut!)..
So anyway, finished pictures & some before and afters!
Before
During
(had to wack out the compounding pad and intensive polish on this as it was a c**t)
after
bonnet shot/reflection
And finally the finished article
Sorry for the lack of pictures... Never really planned on doing a write up but couldn't resist:clown: Not bad for 4 hours work anyway. Would need a couple of days spending on it and also a few things re spraying to get it to my standards though:dead:
Summary:
First time working on vauxhall paint and tbh its actually not that bad. Not too hard but you need to give it some stick with the rotary. Still prefer ford paint though
Cheers,
Luke
