Bit of a mammoth session yesterday down at an independent Porsche specialist in Wiltshire - 11 hours, 32 foam pads (cleaned after each short pass with QD and an m/f cloth) of which half my collection (about 60) were used.
The car itself is about 14 years old around 1600 kg and 350 ish bhp. I'm sure loony will correct me on this
The car was being quoted for a £6K respray and Loony from here who knows the garage owner suggested I could fix it up for a lot less money:thumb:
I exlained to the garage owner that it would still be far from perfect stonechips scratches, small areas of rust bubbling but if looked after could save the car owner a small fortune and lets face it if it was resprayed in guards red and just left in the sun again the same thing would happen anyway.
I'm sure your all familiar with this thread showing the test patch's. FWIW I picked the wrong wing to do my test on - more later.
Process was wipe down each panel with megs last touch and a pakshak waffle weave drying towel - no time or ned for niceities here! The paint work was as rough as sand paper! People say that al the time on here but I can quite honestly say the paint had the texture of 120 grit sandpaper
Firstly the nearside front wing (from my test patch) was treated to ssr 2.5 on the pc (remember AIO didn't touch it) and then followed up with megs #80, megs #81 and then Nattys Blue for its UV propeties. I used a good 8 oz of #80 on this car the paint was so thirsty!
The above process took an hour on this wing
Next up I decided to polish the offside front wing - this is where we hit some problems! The pc and ssr2.5 was only tickling the paint. Stepping up to menz IP on the rotary and polishing pad made some indents but still laughably poor. It took 6 passes of powergloss on a megs cutting pad at stupid rpm to clear the paint. Interestingly this side of the car was 170-180 microns compared to the other wing which was 120-130 microns. After chatting to L200 Steve one theory could be a poor respray job using clearcoat which had to be 'ground through' first - see later.
2.5 hours on this wing alone and well behind schedule
Thank god the bonnet was childs play the oxidation almost fell off lol as it did on the doors
The roof was a tricky customer and I was back on the megs cutting pad and power gloss again slow going
Time was now about 3pm and I stopped for a late lunch only to find the burger van around the corner had upped sticks and gone!!!
The bonnet and lights were popped and the wipers removed so I could get to some tricky areas
And the afters?
I'll start off with the dissapointment. The offised rear quarter could not be brought up to an acceptable std. Powergloss and rotary even wet sanded the fecker and no improvement - no paint transfer either!!!. If this panel was poorly clearcoated in the past then it was a better job than the rest as this couldn't be shifted. This panel will need repsraying or more than likley blowing in by a quality SMART guys I know. Not bad I suppose as I did think we may need a few reprayed areas.
The rest of the car was guarsd red though:devil:
And some red pads soaking
The car itself is about 14 years old around 1600 kg and 350 ish bhp. I'm sure loony will correct me on this
The car was being quoted for a £6K respray and Loony from here who knows the garage owner suggested I could fix it up for a lot less money:thumb:
I exlained to the garage owner that it would still be far from perfect stonechips scratches, small areas of rust bubbling but if looked after could save the car owner a small fortune and lets face it if it was resprayed in guards red and just left in the sun again the same thing would happen anyway.
I'm sure your all familiar with this thread showing the test patch's. FWIW I picked the wrong wing to do my test on
- more later.Process was wipe down each panel with megs last touch and a pakshak waffle weave drying towel - no time or ned for niceities here! The paint work was as rough as sand paper! People say that al the time on here but I can quite honestly say the paint had the texture of 120 grit sandpaper
Firstly the nearside front wing (from my test patch) was treated to ssr 2.5 on the pc (remember AIO didn't touch it) and then followed up with megs #80, megs #81 and then Nattys Blue for its UV propeties. I used a good 8 oz of #80 on this car the paint was so thirsty!
The above process took an hour on this wing
Next up I decided to polish the offside front wing - this is where we hit some problems! The pc and ssr2.5 was only tickling the paint. Stepping up to menz IP on the rotary and polishing pad made some indents but still laughably poor. It took 6 passes of powergloss on a megs cutting pad at stupid rpm to clear the paint. Interestingly this side of the car was 170-180 microns compared to the other wing which was 120-130 microns. After chatting to L200 Steve one theory could be a poor respray job using clearcoat which had to be 'ground through' first - see later.
2.5 hours on this wing alone and well behind schedule
Thank god the bonnet was childs play the oxidation almost fell off lol as it did on the doors
The roof was a tricky customer and I was back on the megs cutting pad and power gloss again slow going
Time was now about 3pm and I stopped for a late lunch only to find the burger van around the corner had upped sticks and gone!!!
The bonnet and lights were popped and the wipers removed so I could get to some tricky areas
And the afters?
I'll start off with the dissapointment. The offised rear quarter could not be brought up to an acceptable std. Powergloss and rotary even wet sanded the fecker and no improvement - no paint transfer either!!!. If this panel was poorly clearcoated in the past then it was a better job than the rest as this couldn't be shifted. This panel will need repsraying or more than likley blowing in by a quality SMART guys I know. Not bad I suppose as I did think we may need a few reprayed areas.
The rest of the car was guarsd red though:devil:
And some red pads soaking
