LilJayV10

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Finished this car today. It was kinda thrashed but it turned out nice. Outside of the rock chips that I obviously can't do anything about I got about about 80-85% correction on it. The car had really deep water spot etching and there were several that needed wet sanded out but because of where they were at I didn't feel comfortable attempting it. Products I used are below

Wash/decon
Two bucket wash method, grit guards
Foammaster II foam gun
Adams Car Shampoo
Dawn dish soap
Meg's APC+
Carpro Merino wool wash mitt
Adams wash mitt
Iron X
Meg's medium and aggressive clay
Cobra waffle weave guzzler drying towel
Adams big drying towel

Wheels/tires/fenders
Meg's super degreaser
Meg's APC+
Adams Deep Wheel Cleaner
Wheel woolies
Daytona speed brushes
Adams lug nut brush
Long handle fender brush from AG
Boars hair brush from AG

Compounding & polishing
Rupes 21 w/ 6 in backing plate
PC 7424XP w/ 3 and 4 inch backing plates
Menz FG400 on Meg's MF finishing disc
Megs M205 via LC flat black pad
Adam's Detail Spray

Headlights
Meg's 3inch sanding discs; 320, 500, 800
Megs 3inch finishing sanding discs; 1000 and 3000
Meg's M105 on LC tangerine pad
Megs M205 on LC white CCS pad
OC 2.0

Tail lights
Meg's 105/300 on LC tangerine pad
Megs M205 on LC white CCS pad
OC 2.0

LSP's
Blackfire Wet Diamond Sealant
Adams Brillant Glaze
Adams In & Out spray
Adams Super VRT
Adams Detail Spray

Glass
Pinnacle Glass Cleaner
Pinnacle Water Spot remover polish
Rupes 21, PC7424 XP
Meg's MF Finishing disc, 6 and 3 inch

LilJayV10

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A few quick before pics. I got home from work late and wanted to get it washed/decon'd before dark.

LilJayV10

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WTF?

LilJayV10

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Adams DWC getting it done


Some APC+ action


Foamed and ready to go


Trying out my new Car pro wash mitt


Forgive the dark pics. It was just about dark when I sprayed the Iron X on. The car bled purple for about ten minutes.






I had to Iron X the back of the car twice. The iron contamination was so bad it had sucked it up under the trunk lid. More on that later.

LilJayV10

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Pulled the car in the garage, covered it with detail spray and started claying. This is what I found.

LilJayV10

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This is the first time using FG400 and to say it's amazing is an understatement. One thing I noticed very quickly is it creates A LOT of heat! It's probably not as bad on a foam pad or using a PC but with a MF disc on the Rupes with the washer mod I am pretty confident you could burn down to primer with the quickness. The utmost care was used when using this combination. i.e. lots of taping edges.

This paint is VERY hard. I think it's harder than the Denali I did a few months back.

After compounding w/ the Rupes 21 on 6inch Meg's MF finishing disc and Menz FG400.

Coppertone

Dayum. Imagine if it was black?

Darksol

you sir are a artist.

LilJayV10

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Before on drivers door


After compounding


For some reason I can't find the rest of the pictures of the compounding phase. How you loose one hundred pic's I don't know. Wells hells.

The entire car looked like the the hood and door.

Here's the roof after compounding and polishing.



One of my favorite pics from the hood

LilJayV10

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The headlights were destroyed and should have been replaced but I decided to bring them back.




Exhaust tips were worse than headlights.
Befores




Tarminator working on the tar


Afters

Dobber63

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Had been thinking about picking up some fg400 to try out. Needless to say, this convinced me to place my order. Amazing work!

LilJayV10

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Few misc pics.

The glass had heavy water spotting.


Not anymore


More water spots


Mustang looking proper again.


Polished all the emblems

Cleaning door jambs

KingPin1094

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Wow, thats all i can really say.

LilJayV10

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This paint was so hard it was LSP after one step. Keeping with my "Good enough is never good enough" philosophy I went over it again w/ M205 on a flat black LC pad. It's about impossible to pick up on camera but I did see an improvement in reflections after this step.

Wiped all the panels down and let the BFWD set up over night. Dressed all the trim/black moldings with Adams Super VRT and/or In and Out spray. I had picked up some Adams brillant glaze a while back and have never used it. I'm not a fan of glazes because by design they hide imperfections and some people use that to hide their shotty work. After talking to a friend who has used the Brilliant glaze I decided to use it. The glazes I have seen in the past are thick. Adams glaze is literally like water. I don't see it having any filling or hiding ability. I did a test panel first to verify and I saw no hiding of any kind. The reason I used it is to try and get that extra little pop. Using it on a white car may be pointless but I used it anyway.

Afters








I like this pic

LT4vert

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Amazing job throughout from the pics so far.

I really reeeeally need a steamer, it would make life sooo much easier. What steamer do you use?

LilJayV10

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This what we started with


and ended up here


The sun has went down now. I'm going to go try and get some more pics.

Rare96LT1Formula

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Nice job Jason. Glad that you finally had a chance to try out the FG400. It makes life so much easier on jobs like this.

And I agree with your sentiment on Rupes LHR21 + MF + FG400 combo. It cuts quick!

ramairetransam

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awesome work

LilJayV10

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I did black Denali a couple months ago that was an absolute train wreck. Turned out great.

Thank you for the kind words.

It really is impressive stuff. I would like to use it on a softer clear to see how it acts. This clear is so hard I think rocks in a can would have finished out well.

Thanks KingPin.


I got it on sale at Kohls for around 80 bucks. Not really that impressed with it. It does make a lot of steam but doesn't have enough power to blow the dirt away. What I did on the door jambs is use APC+10:1, agitate it with a brush of some sort then hit it with the steamer. That worked really well. I want to eventually get a better steamer but for right now I can't justify the cost.

Thanks Rare. I always appreciate your posts. Damn right it cuts quick. Defect killer!

BlackBetty99SS

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OMG, that car was terrible at the start. It was almost light brown. Incredible job!!! Learning the ins/outs of paint restoration is on my bucket list lol