Well, the story starts with me going with a trunk repaint, and rear bumper repaint. (bumper was scraped and trunk was keyed) Appearantly, the Body Shop thought it necessary to repaint the arches over the side windows to match the new paint on the trunk...along with a bonehead urge to buff out the sides of my car to blend the new paint????? How could they not see that it was already perfect? Body shops cant buff (especially with rotaries...tons of swirls and holograms....oh shat I had my work cut out for me!) HERE IS THE DAMAGE THEY DID! 50/50 : i dont need to tell you which is which all corrected using Menzerna PO83(green CCS on Metabo), finished out with Menzerna PO85rd (white CCS on Metabo speed 2 breaking it down until it about was invisible) I actually found that I was getting ALOT better with the PO83 (a.k.a. SIP) If I worked it down like I did the 85rd I got alomost zero holograms...menz is crazy! new rear bumper corrected working my way around the new trunk some shots of how bad the swirls were after: some more buffer trails from the Body shop hackers: they wreaked havic on my beautiful paint! now its all better: Swirls B4: Swirls not there: More B4: After: Outside pics: glassy Thank goodness they didnt touch my hood...just prepped with SV cleaner fluid: a nice last shot from the correction: time to pull out the LSP! went with cleaner fluid on the black CCS speed 1 on the PC topped with Concorso (loved applying it w/ the SV black foam pad!!!! nice even application and buffed off as easy as FMJ!) I tried spritzing ice cold water on the trunk b4 i buffed off the wax, got that tip from Phil at DD...turned out pretty wet!
Man those are nice corrections, the before and after pictues look great :thumb: I like that case you got for the wax's..where did you get? Or what came in it? Very nice job, thank you for sharing :applause:
actually, I bought that for my dad when he had a Porsche. Its a Porsche Car Care kit that came in the case...the products sucked...tore out the liner and voila! locking case for my waxes!
Wow, that is looking jolly good! Did you ever ring the bodyshop and get upset with them about hacking up your paint?
I hope you didn't pay them yet..charge them for your 20 hours and tehy will probably OWE YOU $$ for the job! Send the owner the link to this thread...along with my recommendation to stuff your bill up his ass:catfight:
Man I can't believe what that body shop did to your car...they definitely hurt more than they help. At least your car looks perfect now
oh man...I dont know what they were thinking...alls well that ends well I guess P1et, those are detailersdomain towels. AMAZZAZING!
GREAT JOB!!! Amazing difference, lol I just used your thread to get a customer. I was in the library looking at it and some guy asked about it.
you dont want to seal fresh paint for 30 days, im not sure how long you waited after getting if repainted
Outstanding correction!!!! Very nice attitude to have too! Now what is that I see in the background :druling:
You saw it too, huh?:thumb: Great correction on the beemer! I would like to have newer paint to work on as well...
very nice save on the car... I can't belive that a body shop would try and "blend" the car to match.... LOL!!! I agree, I would show them this thread and show them how it's really supposed to look, then bill them $100 an hour
