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It's not Pink to Red, but 'tinted Blue' to Blue!(Picture Heavy)
I decided to post up this 'not so blue' to 'Blue' Vauxhall Corsa detail, which is a member's wife's car on here. This is a copy of my post from detailing world, just thought you lot might find interesting, well, maybe!
In keeping with older Vauxhalls this was a classic single stage paint and just like the more commonly posted 'Pinks to Reds' typical of this marque, I decided to post up this one!
I knew I'd like doing this one....
It also had some heavy keying inflicted by the usual sad crowd who can't resist damaging other people's property and leaving me with a challenge....
On arrival, generally faded along with those nasty keyings and some bird poo thrown in for good measure. In some places the paint had already gone through to the base, so my intention was to simply do as good as I could with it overall:
Prep Details - Autbrite Citrus Wash, Just the Tonic, Magifoam then washed with Banana Gloss along with the usual brushes around badges, etc. With the wheel being steel I couldn't do much with these and my friend might get some new wheel covers after seeing the end results.
As you can see from some of the before pics, they was visible contaminents, so I went through plenty of clay, here's a piece of Autobrite fine clay, after claying just a few inches! Self-Reminder - I need more clay now!
Paint was original all over and typically gave readings between 100 to 120 with a couple of soft spots (85 ish) on a couple of panel edges:
The car was then machined with the range of Autobrite polishes, with the scratches being given some heavier compounding to try to reduce the effect without removing all the paint of course!
Obligatory 50/50:
Heres' the results, the scratches were reduced, although of course not gone all together...
Hope you like, it was a very pleasing detail to complete, LSP was Autobrite Seal and Protect, Tyres Bubblegum Trim, Plastics Abyss....
And for the those scracthes:
Meanwhile the DS3s sat and waited, feeling neglected from their usual loving, lol: (yes, two different reds here):
Regards,
Clive.
I decided to post up this 'not so blue' to 'Blue' Vauxhall Corsa detail, which is a member's wife's car on here. This is a copy of my post from detailing world, just thought you lot might find interesting, well, maybe!
In keeping with older Vauxhalls this was a classic single stage paint and just like the more commonly posted 'Pinks to Reds' typical of this marque, I decided to post up this one!
I knew I'd like doing this one....
It also had some heavy keying inflicted by the usual sad crowd who can't resist damaging other people's property and leaving me with a challenge....
On arrival, generally faded along with those nasty keyings and some bird poo thrown in for good measure. In some places the paint had already gone through to the base, so my intention was to simply do as good as I could with it overall:
Prep Details - Autbrite Citrus Wash, Just the Tonic, Magifoam then washed with Banana Gloss along with the usual brushes around badges, etc. With the wheel being steel I couldn't do much with these and my friend might get some new wheel covers after seeing the end results.
As you can see from some of the before pics, they was visible contaminents, so I went through plenty of clay, here's a piece of Autobrite fine clay, after claying just a few inches! Self-Reminder - I need more clay now!
Paint was original all over and typically gave readings between 100 to 120 with a couple of soft spots (85 ish) on a couple of panel edges:
The car was then machined with the range of Autobrite polishes, with the scratches being given some heavier compounding to try to reduce the effect without removing all the paint of course!
Obligatory 50/50:
Heres' the results, the scratches were reduced, although of course not gone all together...
Hope you like, it was a very pleasing detail to complete, LSP was Autobrite Seal and Protect, Tyres Bubblegum Trim, Plastics Abyss....
And for the those scracthes:
Meanwhile the DS3s sat and waited, feeling neglected from their usual loving, lol: (yes, two different reds here):
Regards,
Clive.
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