Black R34 Gtr V Spec Ii - Paint Correction Project

[PM-R33]

Thought I would chuck this up here in case people wanted to see photos of the process

Vehicle: 2001 Nissan R34 GTR V Spec II

Package: Paint Correction

Condition: Unfortunately just because someone is a “professional” doesn't always mean they are good at what they do. Take this R34 GTR for example that the unlucky owner had to take to numerous different spray painters to get the job done to an acceptable standard and this is what he unfortunately was left with. While holograms are cool on trading cards, they are not cool on your paint. This is where we stepped in to correct the shoddy work done by someone else.

The vehicle was covered in major swirl marks throughout the paintwork and had bad water etching on numerous panels. The bonnet had the most holograms throughout followed by the whole drivers side of the vehicle. Holograms are caused during machine polishing when either not done with correct technique, using dirty pads, using poor quality product or a mixture of all three.

Process: The vehicle was foam decontaminated to remove loose dust and dirt followed by a two bucket hand wash. To remove any overspray, the whole vehicle was clayed and then finally dried. All rubbers, plastics and badges were taped up to avoid getting damaged or while polishing residue on them during the paint correction stage. Using a paint depth gauge the panels were measured and it was found that the roof had a scary amount of paint left. Extra care had to be taken on the roof and heavy compounding was avoided in this area.

The vehicle was compounded using Menzerna FG500 on a rotary polisher followed by polishing with PF2500 using a DA polisher. Finally the paintwork was “jeweled” using SF4000 and an extremely soft Menzerna pad on a medium speed backing off pressure during the final pass. This was done to extract extra lustre from the paint.

Following paint correction the vehicle was covered in Duragloss’ bonding agent and Duragloss’ wet look sealant. The bonding agent is a fairly unique product from Duragloss as it is applied to the paintwork but not removed. The second product goes directly on top of the first and once dried they are removed together acting similar to a Part A/Part B epoxy. This gives the polymer sealant much longer durability.

The results were spectacular with a complete change in the way the vehicle looked. Extreme amounts of gloss and depth were achieved with an extremely wet mirror finish!

Time Taken: Approx 20 hours

All the photos are on the website or Facebook page if you want to see more. www.facebook.com/ATD.AttentionToDetail

Thanks for looking

Phil

[jake26]

What an improvement!!!!!!

[HABU32]

very very nice! menz products are so good!

[PM-R33]

Thanks guys Yes Menzerna compounds and polishes are definitely my favourite.

[Redline_GTR]

Well done mate.

Has made a fantastic difference

[TM7GTR]

Top notch stuff.

Wanna come work on my MNP 34 down in Canberra?

[PM-R33]

If you pay for air fares and accommodation sure

[Ben C34]

Need before and after labels to make sense ?

[Jordy32]

Wow that is incredible, fantastic work

[PM-R33]

Need before and after labels to make sense

What do you mean Ben? On the 50/50 photos? I thought it was quite obvious.

[Ben C34]

What do you mean Ben? On the 50/50 photos? I thought it was quite obvious.

Sorry dude , left off the smiley face.

It is heaps obvious and completely amazing!

Massive improvement.

[junkie]

Yeah looks excellent! But that some thin paint far out...

[PM-R33]

Ah ok got ya Ben haha.

Yes the roof was extremely thin. Obviously been polished a few times in its life. I dare say it has under 15 micron of clear coat left so I didn't dare remove to much even though a few deep water marks still remained. Better to have a few water marks that you need to squint to look at then to have clear coat failure lol.

[89CAL]

Forget Canberra. I only want you to come to Mackay

If you ever feel like a working holiday, I'd be more than happy to pay for you to come make my car look that amazing

As always Phil, Amazing job.

[PM-R33]

Callan if you could get two or three cars organised over a week period it would definitely be something I would consider

[89CAL]

I'll see what I can do. I'd love to get my paint finished. Its a bit of a mix at the moment. Have old original paint on half the panels, The roof was resprayed and I'm not real happy with how they blended it, and I have pretty much brand new paint on the front end. It could use with a good detail and some paint protection

I might ask around and see what I can work out.

[PM-R33]

To easy man

[Anfanee]

+1 to another canberra job........

[cpark]

+1 here too! If you can get my 34 as schmick as that I will be a very happy camper

Edited March 19, 2015 by cpark

[PM-R33]

Haha well if I'm ever in Canberra i'll hit you boys up