Here is some work I have done on my mk3 supra, I am a little behind on the latest products but the gear I have seems to be working well.
I got stuck into some polish work on the paint, at some stage the car has been resprayed but had not seen polish for a few years, all the paint had gone very chalky, if you run your fingers over it you would end up with white finger tips.
So I had a play around on the front guard with some hand polishing, first I hit it with a clay bar and then some ultimate cut.
Then I decided to get serious, I bought a proper random orbit machine from a detail supplier, this is the results on the roof after wet sanding and polish, im still yet to finish the car but you get the idea.
This is the wet sanding pads I bought
Heres what I started with
so first up I wet sanded with the 3000 grit disc on my RO machine, I know the paint is thick so I can get away with the wet sanding first, heres my machine fitted with the disc
next comes a lake country wool pad with menzerna 500
followed by maguires ultimate cut compound on a lake country orange pad, the photo shows the amount of polish required when using this system.
next is the finishing pass using lake country black pad with menzerna 4000
And finally a wax to protect it, for this I use colinite 845
Its important to mask it up as this is messy work and you can spend hours cleaning the trim pieces up
And finally the finished waxed panel, I find white is a bugger to photograph but there is a significant change in the finish of the paint, This panel took around an 1 1/2 hours to refinish to my standard but the results are worth it.
Engine bay before and after, using simple green and a tooth brush followed with a coat of basic polish.
At the start
Now