Some of you may have been following the "off season" activities. Bumpers painted, seat repairs, cleaning, cleaning and cleaning.
It has all led up to now. This will be info and picture heavy. As Hawk Harrelson would say, sit back relax and strap it down.
Lots of touch ups, 1 on the hood and 1 on the driver fender especially. Multiple coats of paint and 2 coats of clear coat. Friday evening I washed the car with Obsessed garage DECON soap and spot clayed with Pinnacle poly clay. Once in the garage and dried, I spot sanded the touch ups. I used a 3" sanding disk to make 3, 1" disks to use on the Rupes Nano iBrid.
Here is the spot on the hood:
Sanded:
Driver fender after 1500 and 2000:
After 3000:
I did what I could with the scangrip light and a separate LED spot light to capture the defects. The car had typical "love" marks from being washed etc. The last time a machine touched the car was SEPT 2016.
The lower sections were clayed, the marring is very noticeable.
Before:
Mark under and above the light bulb:
Bottom of LF fender, clay marring:
Below the light on the 1/4 panel
I clayed the hood as well since it is a horizontal panel
Imperfections can be seen @ both light reflections:
Circular marks can be seen on the driver door around the bulb. Both speed shops must have wiped the car down. I don't want to think about it.
Here you can see on the inside of the "curve" where the 1" nano machine left rotary holograms after wet sanding:
Here you can see swirls and a long scratch on the spoiler:
Bottom RF fender:
Cowl is faded:
It has all led up to now. This will be info and picture heavy. As Hawk Harrelson would say, sit back relax and strap it down.
Lots of touch ups, 1 on the hood and 1 on the driver fender especially. Multiple coats of paint and 2 coats of clear coat. Friday evening I washed the car with Obsessed garage DECON soap and spot clayed with Pinnacle poly clay. Once in the garage and dried, I spot sanded the touch ups. I used a 3" sanding disk to make 3, 1" disks to use on the Rupes Nano iBrid.
Here is the spot on the hood:
Sanded:
Driver fender after 1500 and 2000:
After 3000:
I did what I could with the scangrip light and a separate LED spot light to capture the defects. The car had typical "love" marks from being washed etc. The last time a machine touched the car was SEPT 2016.
The lower sections were clayed, the marring is very noticeable.
Before:
Mark under and above the light bulb:
Bottom of LF fender, clay marring:
Below the light on the 1/4 panel
I clayed the hood as well since it is a horizontal panel
Imperfections can be seen @ both light reflections:
Circular marks can be seen on the driver door around the bulb. Both speed shops must have wiped the car down. I don't want to think about it.
Here you can see on the inside of the "curve" where the 1" nano machine left rotary holograms after wet sanding:
Here you can see swirls and a long scratch on the spoiler:
Bottom RF fender:
Cowl is faded: