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JR001
10-09-2007, 09:02 PM
Background
Scott (Scotia) from Detailing World asked if I could correct his newly sprayed Black Magic metallic Octavia VRS for him. He was the victim of malicious keying of his car while it was in his driveway. Anyway, the body shop did their stuff and left behind a multitude of rotary machine scratches, but also buffer trails within his newly acquired clearcoat. What a shame because there is no need for this to happen in my opinion.

In normal light, out of the sun, the car looked nice. However, in brighter light and especially in the sun, it’s true appearance was not very pleasing.

I’ve included the best photos within the forum limit of ten to show the before and afters. I managed to get all the photos in direct sunlight to create a few comparisons.

Worth bearing in mind that this car was only re-sprayed two weeks ago and had been washed once by Scott, carefully with lambswool mitt and two bucket method and drying towel etc.

Wash and Clay
Foamed using Meguiar’s Shampoo Plus through an Autobrite foam lance at max setting. Pressure wash rinsed. The roof and rear end were the only tow areas not to be resprayed by the bodyshop but they still had rotary buffer trails on them!! These areas had original factory paint levels (118 microns – 130 microns). These areas were clayed but the rest of the car were not due to being only two weeks old effectively.

Car rinsed after claying and pat-dried using Poorboys waffle weave drying towels.

Rotary Polishing
Original roof and rear end – Menzerna Intensive polish 3.02 – polish spread with rotary stationary then two passes at 900rpm, two at 1500 rpm, 4 at 1700 rpm, finessing with two passes at 900 rpm.

All resprayed panels – Menzerna Final Finish 106FA – spread as above, then two passes at 900 rpm, 5/6 passes at 1600 rpm, finessing with two at 900 rpm. Residue wiped clear with Poorboys microfibre work towels.

Rotary pads – Meguiars soft buff polishing pads.

A test section was carried out on the bonnet to find the right combo for the other resprayed sections. The picture below shows clearly the corrected 75% of the bonnet. The whiter hazy scratched section to the right shows what the whole car was like.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2148.jpg

BEFORES AND AFTERS

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2101.jpg

N/S front door corrected, rear with buffer trails and marring:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2152.jpg

Both N/S doors corrected:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2180.jpg

Bonnet:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2133.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2189.jpg

O/S front:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2134.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2187.jpg

Roof:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2138.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q116/jr001_2007/OCTAVIA%20VRS/100_2185.jpg

Lots more but can’t fit them beyond the 10 limit!!!!

WHEELS
Cleansed with JEFFS Acrylic Prime, left to cure for 30 mins then buffed over with MF cloth.

TYRES
Dressed with Chemical Guys new look trim gel and buffed over 30 mins later with MF cloth

WINDOWS
Cleansed with Jeffs Prime as per the wheels, leaving acrylic sealant layer for water to bead from.

EXTERIOR TRIM
Dressed with Chemical Guys new look trim gel and buffed over 20 mins later with MF cloth.

Scott was able to see for the first time that his paint actually contained silver, blue and purple metallic paint flakes – he didn’t even see them before the car was re-sprayed! His car’s its real colour again and he has decided not to sell it after all.

Thanks for looking. Questions and comments welcome.

JOHN

Auto-Brite
04-12-2007, 12:00 PM
Nice work mate!