Wet Sanding Paint Correction

Benskett

Benskett

Well as the car has been totally de-swirled it was time to attack my next nemisis, orange peel.

This is the car with full machine de-swirl and ClearKote glaze/Collinite 476s

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Mint eh? No. Well not for me anyway.

This requied wet-sanding with Meg's Unigrit 2000-2500-3000 paper, then machining back the 3000 marks and applying an LSP and Wax.

The enemy - Lock and Load :D

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After 4 hours of prep with the Unigrit and soapy water and carefully flatting I was at a stage when I could start machining out the marks with the Porter Cable.

Now bear in mind the entire rear bumper was like this, not sure how I got like this, but it pissed me off...

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Sorted ;)
 
If you fancied tidying the car up a bit more mate you should get some UK spec P1 rear lights (With integrated foglight) instead of having the necessary rear foglight under the bumper, just a thought!
 
Looks good, it may have had a bit of a quick touch up. Mine had on the back bumper to cover up a dealership sticker! I may have go at this as theres bit of that orange peel on the offside rear quarter.
 
Mines is covered in it. If I ever get a porter cable, I might give it a go, I've been trying to take out all the hologram marks where someone has badly polished it with a rotary on mine with scratch x with rubbish results.
 
Car looks really good

benskett- Have you used poorboys swirl removers?

its not for my car but was going to attack the daily runner with the portar cable, as its full of swirl marks,
 
Yeah, I use the SSR range of machine polishes (made by Poorboys).

SSR2.5 then SSR1, the 2.5 will leave marrying (sticking to the paint), then use 1 to refine the finish and remove the marrying.

Then I use a ClearKote glaze and Collinite 476s for the wax. ;)
 
God help you :P

Wish I had the patience and ambition to do that, I really need to start cleaning more than I do :O
 
started on mine today, going around the car trying to tidy up the odd little mark etc using a touch up pen and wet sanding, cars got plenty of dents aswell but theres no way im messing with them as il make them worse.

got one front wing done, had a few stone chips which have been touched in then wet sanded and any other marks were removed with a few goings over with G3, with any look by JAE it will be looking fairly tidy, just a shame people in car parks are so clumsy.

looking forward to seeing this car, bet nobody will want to park next to you though, will make everyone elses car look neglected :lol:
 
Benskett said:
Yeah, I use the SSR range of machine polishes (made by Poorboys).

SSR2.5 then SSR1, the 2.5 will leave marrying (sticking to the paint), then use 1 to refine the finish and remove the marrying.

Then I use a ClearKote glaze and Collinite 476s for the wax. ;)
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do you work :eek:
 
just remove the rear fog, I never meant for it to be left on, thats why the bracket mounts onto the toe eye (no holes in bumper) and theres even a bullet connector in the cable(s) either just inside the car (wheel well) or just underneith where it comes throught the bung.

take it off!!!!
 
sorry to resurrect an old thread, but its better than making a new one i suppose

So i painted my bumper yesterday and it now needs flatted and polished.

i understand that flatting it is basically wet sanding with 2000 grit paper.

but what about polishing? i have a machine polisher but its a halfrauds job. so not that great.

any suggestions of a product/process to get it looking good?
 
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