Toyota Landcruiser 1989 Paint Correction

[Kane.]

After seeing cars I've done, my Dad asked me to have a go at his, it's a 1989 2.5l turbo diesel. It's only been washed 2-3 times at the local jetwash place in 4-5 years so as you can imagine it's in pretty poor condition.

All he wanted was to bring some 'shine' back, done over 3 days (1 day then 2 hours then 2 hours)...

Products used:

BTBM
G101
Megs last touch
Dodo basics of bling clay
Menzerna p203
G220
Meguiars yellow polishing pad


Snow foamed with G220

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The bonnet in need of gloss

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The clay bar over a tiny pass on the bonnet :dead:

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You can see here where I clayed it

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Another few pics of the bonnet

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Excuse the water marks

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Not so bad here

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Panel above the rear wheel before

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And after

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Another before

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After

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Part of bonnet before

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After

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Oh dear

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Before

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After

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Looking better

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One side of car complete

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Onto the other side 50/50

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Shine

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Before

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After

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Bonnet done

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Other side done

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That's it. Sorry for the s**t write up.

Tomorrow I'll give it a wash then seal it (FK1000p?) do glass, tyres etc. Also done the interior today for 2 hours so I'll get some pics of that.

Cheers for reading.

 

[Toby]

More afters needed.

But looks like you got some good results.

 

[Ben]

Top work mate, those 50/50 shots are crazy.

 

[Kane.]

Cheers will get some more tomorrow once it's complete.

 

[Sam@NP]

Epic.

 

[Daniel]

Before you gloss the tyres, use some APC neat and a nail brush on the tyres, brings the white writing up a treat.

 

[Kane.]

Cheers, I did apc them but not with a brush so will try that tomorrow, thanks.

 

[Daniel]

Fair play to you for doing it. A big neglected truck like that takes a lot of motivation!!

 

[Nickson]

Looks awesome after the correction!
Good job man :approve:

 

[MatthewR]

thats actualy amazing, i cant belive the transformation. i actualy didnt like the car, however now its clean it looks nice.

any full on shots? front and sides?

 

[Kane.]

Thanks , half way through doing it I wondered wtf I was doing, still could do with several passes but my Dad's happy so we agreed to leave it as it is.

 

[Kane.]

thats actualy amazing, i cant belive the transformation. i actualy didnt like the car, however now its clean it looks nice.

any full on shots? front and sides?

Haha, it has grown on me tbh, looks better with the roof off I will get some more pics tomorrow.

 

[todd100]

Looks really good cantbelieve how dull it was thought it was matt paint

 

[john.med]

Great results!

 

[Drew.]

i bet your dad was pleased with them results! nice work.

 

[RS200Lew]

Superb mate, as said before the 50/50 shots are crazy. Just goes to show the warm climate you have kills paint like it does. I dont think water spots can be constantly looked after unless you are running around like a hound!!!!!

 

[Kane.]

Cheers guys, Dad is more than happy with it. Water spotting is very hard to avoid in this weather. More pics later on.

 

[welshname]

bet that was very very rewarding.

 

[Dan1587]

That is mental mate!! Well done, what polisher do you use?

 

[Kane.]

Cheers, I used a Meguiars G220 DA.