Detailing day today

[Warpa]

Paint was in a pretty poor state, camera pics hid a lot of it, but lots of swirls and scratches all over. After washing and claying yesterday it got a quick foam before the polishing process.

Quick snow foam.

The weapon of choice today was.

i did alter the combo to a wool pad as some of the swirls and scratches were taking way to long to remove.

Some scuffing on the rear.

Roof was worst area for some reason.

and bonnet.

The roof after two passes with the machine.

the bonnet.

The bonnet again, scratches and swirls a thing of the past and the shine as it should be.

now just to put the alloys on hopefully tomorrow

 

[johnbr6]

decent! I wanna get maself a machine like that haha.

 

[Delboy84]

looks great! im going to invest in a polishing machine too i think because manually trying to do this with bare hands is a big drain on time and overall finish imo.

 

[Guy]

That's an epic improvement with the paint .

 

[Warpa]

If new with a machine a dual action polisher may be the way to go (its what i started with and still have it) The Flex i use now is a rotary and costs around £380 but its very light, very quiet and easy to use. Same results can be achieved with any DA though (dual action)

 

[Warpa]

Just an example of what can be achieved with a machine and some knowledge

my boat after i wet sanded it

After a lot of polishing The torch is to spot swirls.

this is an example on my Navara

The specs you now see is the fleck in the metalic

 

[Seb_]

Wonderful, so neat !

 

[autotest]

If new with a machine a dual action polisher may be the way to go (its what i started with and still have it) The Flex i use now is a rotary and costs around £380 but its very light, very quiet and easy to use. Same results can be achieved with any DA though (dual action)

how much lol.......more than a paid for me car....wot u clean the engine bay with....

 

[Warpa]

how much lol.......more than a paid for me car....wot u clean the engine bay with....

Autoglym engine and machine cleaner, and dressed with AG rubber dressing.

 

[autotest]

done a hell of a job on the paint...wot did u use to get them scratches out got the same marks on roof n bonnet....av used t cut but wont touch em....

 

[norfolkne]

done a hell of a job on the paint...wot did u use to get them scratches out got the same marks on roof n bonnet....av used t cut but wont touch em....

I've got the same marks too. Gonna have to get meself a DA polisher at some point. I'd love to have nice shiny paintwork.

 

[Warpa]

how much lol.......more than a paid for me car....wot u clean the engine bay with....

Autoglym engine and machine cleaner, then while engine is still wet spray autoglym vynl and rubber care

 

[Warpa]

done a hell of a job on the paint...wot did u use to get them scratches out got the same marks on roof n bonnet....av used t cut but wont touch em....

Just double posted on my phone some how. If you are trying to remove scratches by hand the swirl X from halfords may do the job but not if scratches are deep. Nothing will put enough heat into the polish to get it to work as its supposed to.