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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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I bought this a few weeks ago with many headaches and now that it is finally mechanically sound,I worked on the paint today. I worked on it for 6 hours today in the heat and I am pretty satisfied with the results.
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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 09:27 PM
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sweet..what compound did you use?
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looks like it came out pretty good. Nice work
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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 09:32 PM
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I just washed it and used the Turtle wax black box. It is a ton of work,but in person it made a nigjht and day difference. I was going to use a buffer but I gto kind of lazy. Now, i need to wash and wax my other ones tomorrow and get a group photo. Thanks
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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 09:39 PM
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Looks really nice, im in the process of block sanding and repainting my front bumper. hope it turns out that nice
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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 09:46 PM
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Looks good i want those tail lights u have on the camaro!!!!!!!!
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Thanks guys, CGP, those tail lights are from Japan or something. Sorry, I can't give them to you that's my husbands camaro.
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How did the nose turn out? Mine looks the same and I also have the black box kit to try, just havent had the time yet.
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it looks much,much better. I will do it a few more times to build it up.
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looks alot better. I want a white ws6
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WOW, thats a big difference!!
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Originally Posted by weaklt1
Thanks guys, CGP, those tail lights are from Japan or something. Sorry, I can't give them to you that's my husbands camaro.
sad day for me
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Time for a buff id say....looks good tho
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I'll have to give that stuff a shot...Ive been weary, so many gimmicks out there, ya know?
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Looks great!
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It does look awesome, but as soon as you wash it a couple of times all of the scratches will reappear. It takes a rotary buffer with some hard core polish to remove the swirls. We tried doing that with a similar wax on my medium patriot red car and ended up spending around 20 hours on it to clean up the paint polishing the **** out of it.
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^what he said.
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Originally Posted by slingshot928
It does look awesome, but as soon as you wash it a couple of times all of the scratches will reappear. It takes a rotary buffer with some hard core polish to remove the swirls. We tried doing that with a similar wax on my medium patriot red car and ended up spending around 20 hours on it to clean up the paint polishing the **** out of it.
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