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  • 1 month later...

decided to detail my wife's car not a Nissan but at least she's Japanese :mellow:

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before detailing

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sunscreen is a b!tch to take off

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scratches on the boot

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this was the hardest thing to try and clean up and took some time- deep scratches from contact with side of the garage :blush:

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that's the best I could do :ermm:

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headlights needed some TLC as well

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somewhat better

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Edited by Ants

Sorry there was meant to be a bit of a story to the above pic. Its a Lexus that me and my bro worked on last Sunday, that looked like this when we started:

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The paint was super hard, took us most of the day to remove 80-90% of the above damage, with a rotary polisher, cutting pads and my heaviest cutting Menzerna polish. On top of that keeping the polisher on the paint was super difficult as it wanted to skip around, stick, basically had a mind of its own. my ranodm orbital was totally useless on that paint... hard day but results were pretty good

cheers mate. yes lexus was a royal pain in the butt. the 35 is the total opposite, paint is super soft, sneeze on it and it will swirl up. have to carry bird crap wipes in my work bag as it stains very quickly. does anyone else have that problem??

cheers mate. yes lexus was a royal pain in the butt. the 35 is the total opposite, paint is super soft, sneeze on it and it will swirl up. have to carry bird crap wipes in my work bag as it stains very quickly. does anyone else have that problem??

Yup. Got a V as well. Have bird crap wipes in the glove compartment for that very reason!

  • 3 weeks later...

Well I didn't know where to put this as it's more of a big head/self indulgence and I didn't want to start a new thread for something so lame but I was mucking around with a few different methods for a Black bare metal respray I've got to do and thought I'd chuck a few pics up of a test panel I did for the guy. I just painted my old boot with black Standox basecoat and put 2 coats of their Crystal Pro clear on.

 

Once it was Dry I wet sanded (colour sanded if your American) with 1200 then 2000 with a soft rubber block to remove all the peel. Then Farecla G3 with 150mm foam pad, Juice Swirl Remover with the green Gelson pad finished with a coat of T57 blaxk liquid polish.

 

He was stoked and for a job painted outside I'm positive he'll be over the moon with the actual job.

I'm going to do a few more test sections on the boot with various flowcoating methods so he can see the difference and I might chuck some better comparison photos up if anyone's interested. Anyway here's some pics.

 

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Edited by trustr32

Well I didn't know where to put this as it's more of a big head/self indulgence and I didn't want to start a new thread for something so lame but I was mucking around with a few different methods for a Black bare metal respray I've got to do and thought I'd chuck a few pics up of a test panel I did for the guy. I just painted my old boot with black Standox basecoat and put 2 coats of their Crystal Pro clear on.

 

Once it was Dry I wet sanded (colour sanded if your American) with 1200 then 2000 with a soft rubber block to remove all the peel. Then Farecla G3 with 150mm foam pad, Juice Swirl Remover with the green Gelson pad finished with a coat of T57 blaxk liquid polish.

 

He was stoked and for a job painted outside I'm positive he'll be over the moon with the actual job.

I'm going to do a few more test sections on the boot with various flowcoating methods so he can see the difference and I might chuck some better comparison photos up if anyone's interested. Anyway here's some pics.

 

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Woah .....MAGICIAN!!! :mage: going to make my next post look a bit lame...

very nice Artz. Did you take off the wheels to clean them? Also, I like how you cleaned the calipers since they rack up so much brake dusts.

Good job mate. now come over to Qld and detail my GTR ;)

I like how the brake calipers were worth cleaning... :rofl:

wheels came off...cleaned then coated with Poorboys wheel sealant stuff, inside and out twice...so hopefully brake dust will hose off too...

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the wheels weren't the only thing removed for cleaning :whistling:

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  • 1 month later...

Have any of you guys used the Wolf's Products? In particular the Hard Body?

I'm not a detailer, but I looked into it all pretty hard a while back and their stuff seemed pretty good, the nano stuff they have looks the business. Opinions?

  • 1 month later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Here are a few pics from a detail I did on the weekend.

I don't have any before shots. Some of the pics are a bit crap, so sorry about that.

This is after claybar and paint cleaning.

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These are the only pics I have after a single pass of paint correction with Menzerna PG1000 and Lake Country CSS-Orange Pad.

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And then headlight correction. The passengers side was in bad shape with a very deep scrape on the corner. The whole headlight was wet sanded with 600/1200/2000/2500 grit paper. From this it was polished with Menzerna PG1000, PF2500, UF5000 compunds.

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I'll get some pics after final polish and paint protection.

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