Yesterday whilst washing my mum and dads cars, you can tell the difference between what good and crap paint is. It finally got the better of me when i was washing my dads truck to realise the water was actually drying into the paint. it was that dry, faded, dead and flat that it had literally lost all shine. Drastic action needed.

Take juan 11 year old L200 4life

Take selection of "miricle makers" ( did swap the rotor pad to a different type but it was as clean as this, note the cleanliness )


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Start claying the car and wondering why it isnt that dirty


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Hit is with 4 passes of ultimate compound on the rear tailgate, left panel untouched ( can just about makeout the fade in the paint )


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Same again with this, right hand panel untouched, tailgate has been restored


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Continued on with the rest of the rear section, until it rained pretty happy overall though, need to get out there and reddo the rest!


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Oh and remember i said remember how clean the pad was.....


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Thanks for looking!

Good work..I really need one if those da polishers..

good work, rather you than me, lot of truck there to do.

good work Jack
You can really see the difference between the treated and non-treated

Thats a big truck to be detailing!

what a difference, top work jack

Great work mate, i've offered to do my parents prius at some point when the weather gets better and hosepipe ban has been lifted.

5 days an counting

Nice work there Jack. Think I'm gonna have to pay you to correct some of my paint at some point!

Top work

Thread resurrection inbound. Mods can someone move this post to the detailing section please?

With a spare sunday, washed the truck and washed my mums mondeo, thought i'd continue on where i left off. I hit it with the clay but again there wasn't alot of contamination coming up. I've clayed loads of cars now and this is the only one thats stumped me as the paint genuinely looks fuccked. Its had a bit of a hammering from being outside in an industrial estate for all of a day in its life, so any sort of debris has been on it over a vast amount of time and stuck into the paint.

Decided to just go for it with the meguiars dual action g220 that i use, whatever was on the surface was going to come off with the cut anyway!

This time i went ahead with a medium pad and a medium cut mernza, hadn't sampled this compund before as i've only really delt with doing swirl removals, so i had nothing to loose really!

I was doing 3 passes on each panel/section. Upping the speed every time so started on speed setting 2, then 4, then finally top whack of 6 for the final pass.

Starded on the front nearside wing and came up like this, comparing the wing to the bonnet the paints faded and all sorts of debris clinging to it, nothing that could be shifted by hand!


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Next few shots, i did 1/3 of the bonnet, its not exactly straight ( tbf i had some blue tape to use for comparison but its gone walks ) but its the line of success!


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This next shot is now onto the offside, comparing the bonnet being passed to the wing which is untouched.


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Just after passing over the bonnet


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At about a halfwayish point, this was the state of the pad, loads of dirt had been dragged off the paint, so washed it off until it was back to a clean state and continued on.


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After the 3 passes on the roof


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Revealed a decent reflection, but still sadly marks from bird poo thats eaten the lacquer and cant be reversed, unless i went in with a rotor which tbf i dont fancy doing


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Finished the lot off with some kleenfreaks detailing spray, its wax combined so it should protect it nicely! I was going to go back over with an ultrafinish 3m compound and a soft pad but i was loosing the light of day! Next time round i'll sort it...


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Then just to finish, a reflection of the detailing range!


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Thanks for looking

A lot of time and effort there mate with results to be happy with, nice work

That looks amazing Jack!! Very good job

Wow. Great work Jack. itching to get my DA, but wait till summer time for the good weather

Looks awesome mate