What I did over Easter.....
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St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by troy144
great job. What's the other car in the reflection? a lexus?
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Originally Posted by Madman51
That's an incredible lack of orange peel. Custom paint job?Nah, original paint. Just managed to even it out quite a bit with all the polishing in the past month. Ive polished my trunk deck lid enough to where most of the orange peel is gone. Thats how I got those sky reflections so smooth. you can notice some orange peel in the reflection of the car in the driveway
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St. Jude Donor '06
Thanks guys. I just took some full body shots this morn and i'll take some more this after noon in the sunshine. I'll post em late afternoon, evening.
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Originally Posted by DPG
Nah, original paint. Just managed to even it out quite a bit with all the polishing in the past month. Ive polished my trunk deck lid enough to where most of the orange peel is gone. Thats how I got those sky reflections so smooth. you can notice some orange peel in the reflection of the car in the driveway
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Originally Posted by peter pan
Great shine add a picture of the whole car
Maybe he can't - only did the rear????
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St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by AC54ME
Maybe he can't - only did the rear????
Hood reflections:
Last edited by DPG; Apr 21, 2006 at 07:40 PM.
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Originally Posted by Cajundude
Very nice!!!!! What are you using to get the peel out?