View Single Post
  #2  
Old 09-11-2010
Nick Goodall's Avatar
Nick Goodall Nick Goodall is offline
*SuPeRsTaR mEmBeR*
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Newbury, Berkshire
Posts: 2,161
Default

PART2

Really works well



I dried it off with an Autobrite blue fluffy towel



I used a smaller one to go over all the tricky areas that i may have missed - this was just to make sure it was 100% dry before i started polishing.



What happened next? Yep, it started to rain......... Typical! Mad dash to get my car out of the way, and put the Celica into the Garage so i could quickly dry off the small bit of rain and start taping up.

I decided to do half the car at a time as space was limited so i wanted to leave more space down one side to make it more comfortable. The car was promptly split in 2 and taped up ready for polishing.

I could see now just how bad certain areas were on the car, especially the bonnet with a lot of stone chips and possibly some previous paint work - It is a 16 year old car so i wasn't expecting perfection but there were areas of the paint that reminded me of my old nPulsar where it just seemed quite weathered, and hazy / almost glazed over in places - It's hard to explain but i'll let the pics do that.



Scratched wing


Mirror


Orange peel / Sign of paintwork


Taped up ready for polishing





What i was facing, it wasn't going to be easy



First pass was with a Sonus SFX-2 Pad, using PO85RD 3.02 but the paint seemed pretty hard to be honest, i thought it may be soft like Honda's but
definitely not the case with this Toyota at least


(First time i got to use my new Brinkman Torch too)!





Trying to get the right shots



50/50 of the Bonnet and Wing



Closer inspection and getting the right light showed there were still a lot of scratches in the paint



I decided to try a Sonus SFX-1 Pad with some Menzerna Power Gloss S100 (This is the toughest stuff i've got at the moment)



It's definitely better, but you can see the condition of the paint is just not up to it in some places, maybe a Pro could have got more out but i think
the only thing it really needed is paint adding which i can't do...


Bit further back, showing the clarity to the right



Top of the bonnet

Reply With Quote