White paint from hell
10-28-2010, 11:33 PM
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White paint from hell
This car belongs to the owner of 503motoring.com. a few years ago it was sold to a friend who unfortunately didn't take very good care of it while owning it. But now the car is back and in good hands. I was asked to try to do something to the paint because it was really trashed. I estimated 2 days and honestly I don't know what I was thinking at that moment.
In the end I spent 3 days on the paint, around 22 hours. It had to be done at the end of day 3 which meant much fewer pictures plus missed taking many after pictures as well. In any case you will have a good idea at least of the condition of the paint before I worked on it. It is raining here in Portland so any sun shots have to wait.
PROCESS
3D WASH
3D CLAY
HD QD - AS CLAY LUBE AND ON WINDOWS
HD UNO - COMPOUNDING rotary/POLISHING 3401 da (with wool and orange pads)
DODO JUICE LIME PRIME - FINISHING POLISH pcxp (with HD UNO orange pad)
FK1 #1000 TO PROTECT gray 3M pad & pcxp
OCW TO REMOVE #1000
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
50/50
BEFORES
AFTER
AFTER PROTECTION
In the end I spent 3 days on the paint, around 22 hours. It had to be done at the end of day 3 which meant much fewer pictures plus missed taking many after pictures as well. In any case you will have a good idea at least of the condition of the paint before I worked on it. It is raining here in Portland so any sun shots have to wait.
PROCESS
3D WASH
3D CLAY
HD QD - AS CLAY LUBE AND ON WINDOWS
HD UNO - COMPOUNDING rotary/POLISHING 3401 da (with wool and orange pads)
DODO JUICE LIME PRIME - FINISHING POLISH pcxp (with HD UNO orange pad)
FK1 #1000 TO PROTECT gray 3M pad & pcxp
OCW TO REMOVE #1000
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
50/50
BEFORES
AFTER
AFTER PROTECTION
10-31-2010, 03:53 PM
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Safety Car
All I can say you are lucky the truck was white, can you imagine how bad it would have been and still look if it was a dark color.
White has been and will always be the great hider, AKA as Collision white, when I was a kid the white of choice was GM's Ermine white to hide bodywork and anything you didn't want people to see.
White has been and will always be the great hider, AKA as Collision white, when I was a kid the white of choice was GM's Ermine white to hide bodywork and anything you didn't want people to see.
10-31-2010, 04:12 PM
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I am not sure what you mean, but I'd say that anything that could be removed WAS removed without removing too much clear. I don't "hide" when I correct paint. Each panel goes through a pretty detailed process to make sure that there are no imperfections left.
There will be sun pictures in the future of the paint so you will see it then.
There will be sun pictures in the future of the paint so you will see it then.
All I can say you are lucky the truck was white, can you imagine how bad it would have been and still look if it was a dark color.
White has been and will always be the great hider, AKA as Collision white, when I was a kid the white of choice was GM's Ermine white to hide bodywork and anything you didn't want people to see.
White has been and will always be the great hider, AKA as Collision white, when I was a kid the white of choice was GM's Ermine white to hide bodywork and anything you didn't want people to see.