Detail: 03 Cobra & water spots gone bad!
04-05-2013, 12:56 PM
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Detail: 03 Cobra & water spots gone bad! This car was brought to me cause the customer was looking to sell the car. We talked on the phone a couple of times & the day he showed up to drop it off, it just looked a little dirty lol, dirty was an understatement. lol
check it out.
and upon further inspection the car really looked like this
I ended up using an acid based water spot remover to remove these spots.
here it is being used to break down the deposits that are left over from hard water being used on the car. There were water spots all on the glass, paint and plastic. In certain sections of the car you could see the mineral build up so i went a head and disassembled the car to get access to those areas.
Here is the water spotting on the glass.
Here it is with the acid on the glass.
After all the glass was finished i moved onto the paint. The only issue here is that this acid based cleaner dries out the paint pretty bad. this is what i did on the door.
All 4 of the rims were just as bad
As i said before about the paint being dry. heres a shot of the bumper before & during the polishing process.
50/50 of a polished and unpolished side.
So i finished up all the polishing, and moved back to assembly of the car. I did notice that the grilles were spotted w calcium & trim restorer wasnt doing anything .
so i took it upon myself to paint em so the buyer didnt have to buy new ones.
30 days later here is the finished product.
the wheels.
the hood finished!
trunk!
rear bumper
All in all it came out ppretty good. The seller was excited to get what he wanted for it and the buyer was happy that his car was in new condition. I dont really know how the car got to this point. But it goes to show that with the hard water that Texas has its easy that unattended water on a vehicle can definitely do some damage if not addressed.
check it out.
and upon further inspection the car really looked like this
I ended up using an acid based water spot remover to remove these spots.
here it is being used to break down the deposits that are left over from hard water being used on the car. There were water spots all on the glass, paint and plastic. In certain sections of the car you could see the mineral build up so i went a head and disassembled the car to get access to those areas.
Here is the water spotting on the glass.
Here it is with the acid on the glass.
After all the glass was finished i moved onto the paint. The only issue here is that this acid based cleaner dries out the paint pretty bad. this is what i did on the door.
All 4 of the rims were just as bad
As i said before about the paint being dry. heres a shot of the bumper before & during the polishing process.
50/50 of a polished and unpolished side.
So i finished up all the polishing, and moved back to assembly of the car. I did notice that the grilles were spotted w calcium & trim restorer wasnt doing anything .
so i took it upon myself to paint em so the buyer didnt have to buy new ones.
30 days later here is the finished product.
the wheels.
the hood finished!
trunk!
rear bumper
All in all it came out ppretty good. The seller was excited to get what he wanted for it and the buyer was happy that his car was in new condition. I dont really know how the car got to this point. But it goes to show that with the hard water that Texas has its easy that unattended water on a vehicle can definitely do some damage if not addressed.
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04-05-2013, 02:45 PM
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no he sold it lol.
coppertone i used a whole bunch of stuff to get to that point. Polishing that car was a pain cause when you have dry paint whatever you put on it sticks so i had to keep trying w various polishes n compounds til i got it right.
coppertone i used a whole bunch of stuff to get to that point. Polishing that car was a pain cause when you have dry paint whatever you put on it sticks so i had to keep trying w various polishes n compounds til i got it right.
04-05-2013, 04:03 PM
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you can only tell by polishing the paint. All paints are different. There are standard paints to buff out, soft paints, sticky paints, hard paints. You just have to determine it by buffing and when your normal procedure doesnt work then you may have one of the issues above.
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04-08-2013, 07:06 AM
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Probably had the car parked in his drive way and it was sprayed by the sprinklers on a daily basis for a while. Same thing happened to my wife's suburban on the side and it took me a while to get the spots out. Hot Texas sun sure does a job making sure those Calcium deposits stay put.
04-08-2013, 09:14 AM
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thanks man.
Funny thing is thats exactly what happened lol
He was but couldnt find a buyer 2-3 guys backed out when they came to see the car. But this one guy came out and i talked to him. He just asked if i could guarantee the car would come out good. so he came a week later and the spots were off the roof and he was happy w that. I chose to charge him a little extra to polish the car out. He was cool w it so i did what i do. and made more on it than i thought i would. but all in all the seller got what he wanted, the buyer got what he wanted and so did i 
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thanks man.
Probably had the car parked in his drive way and it was sprayed by the sprinklers on a daily basis for a while. Same thing happened to my wife's suburban on the side and it took me a while to get the spots out. Hot Texas sun sure does a job making sure those Calcium deposits stay put.
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04-08-2013, 09:00 PM
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Wow that looks great. That must have been very time consuming, but it sure payed off. I could only imagine what you could do to something that looked half way decent to start.
