CarPro ClearCut
So, the paint on the Turbo is awful. My wife doesn't really care, and it's a car with 100,000 miles, dozens of track days, several cross country trips, and a 180MPH visit to the Salt Flats.
I've previously tried to make some headway on it with my go to of porter cable orbital, aggressive pad, and Meguiar's M105. That did *not* produce good results. After a pass with ClearCut, the paint is starting to *almost* look tolerable. So far, *highly* recommended. As a *huge* bonus, it seems to interface *really well* with Dr. Colorchip touchup paint. With the microfiber/wool hybrid pad that I'm currently using, it'll strip the excess touchup paint off while leaving the excess in the chip. Which is brilliant, because I get to skip all the annoying work that's normally involved in using Dr. Colorchip. |
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Here’s a before and after shot.
Note that the panel still requires further work (ClearCut and a wool pad are not a good final compound), but it conveys pretty well just how much had to be done. The paint on this car will never get to great, but at least we can get to acceptable. |
That's pretty good improvement.
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Those pictures are bugging me out I can't tell what part of the car I am looking at ... also is the paint black or is that some background reflection.
For some reason I always thought your Porsche was white. |
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This picture is of a part of the driver's side rear fender. |
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Actually not terrible as is on the passenger side.
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Wrap it in something obnoxious
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back to the driver’s rear panel with some finishing compound on a less harsh pad. i’ll be honest. this is way better than i thought it would be.
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way exceeding my expectations here.
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Wrapping a car is certainly protective. Unfortunately, if the car's paint is already not in great shape, you'll have to do something about rock chips, etc. BEFORE you wrap it. I'm not expert enough to know where the line is between rock chips that will get covered and chips that will show through, but it's definitely an issue to be aware of. Edit: And you can see in the pictures that one of my next projects is to remove the old fender stone guards. Which will take patience. |
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To expand a bit on Nick's comments about wraps... Removal can be super bitch. The better and better prepared the finish before the wrap went on, the easier and less likely to damage removal will go. On this car, I would expect damage...but if the wrap was in place for three years, I would expect the damage magnitude to be comparable to three more years of weathering (but also dependent on use and garaging situation). Even without damage, it's not like you pull it off and everything's great. You'll have to remove adhesive in places, clay, thoroughly clean and then do a regular wash and application of whatever gloss enhancers and protective coating you're going to use. Basically, all in line with a full on detail. As Nick said, wraps are generally thinner and don't offer as much protection as higher quality clear bra products, but they do offer some. There are a couple different high quality brands and they all have several lines. They're not all created equally and there are some compromises and trade offs to be made. |
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Needless to say it is pretty frustrating. |
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There's not a lot to my halfassed process. I just dab it in, let it dry for a bit, and then polish off the excess while it's still soft. It seems to work meaningfully better than using their clean up fluid and it's way easier. |
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This thread bump is timely.
The paint on the RX-8 is pretty awful. The car had 151,000 miles on it when I bought it and the paint was original except for the right rear corner which looks to have some light body work and a (decently blended) respray. Before KOTM I went over the car with touch-up paint and Langka leveling compound and was reminded how painful of a process that is. The entire car had bad swirling, so I ended up using Meguiar's 105 compound followed by 210, because it's what I had. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out but it didn't level the chips as much as I would have liked. I need to try some of this ClearCut stuff. Pic from Motor Trend... not the greatest resolution, but not horrible https://mtg-assets-prod.s3.amazonaws...tain-3-iii.jpg |
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The windshield is ir film and accoustic sandwiched. Guess I'm calling insurance FML |
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In PA, the governing statute is Title 75 Chapter 49 § 4903.1 - "Securing loads in vehicles / Loose material". |
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You're running Giordano's level deep dishes on those wheels. |
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Does it have any cameras or sensors in the glass or work through them? If so, they may need to be recalibrated, too, which adds cost, time, and PITA factor. Heading to Lincoln a few weeks ago, I was following JV towing his RX-8. At one point, I watched a small stone kick up from behind the trailer, hang in the air as I drove into, where it impacted the lower driver side corner and appeared to leave a pit. Or maybe a small crack. But perhaps it was bug guts that I hadn't yet noticed. I mentioned it to Kevin. From his passenger seat perspective, he said, "Um, that doesn't look like bug guts from here," and started looking up windshield repair places in Lincoln. I was hoping it was a chip that could be filled/repaired and that would be the end of it. The Camaro has HUD which means it gets a windshield with some kind of coating that makes it a little more expensive, but they haven't made that many 6g Camaros. To make it more fun, there are six different windshield part numbers (HUD, Lane Departure/Auto-Braking, PDR and the different possible combinations). Between all of that, my expectation is that if I ever have to replace the glass, it will probably take a few days, so I really did not want to have to deal with that. A simple resin repair that will hold would be much preferable. At the next gas stop, I forgot to check from the outside. About 30 minutes further down the road, I decided I could reach it from inside and put my hand out the window and touched it...and smeared some bug guts around. No pit, no chip, no crack. I was pretty relieved. |
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Looks delicious, but that's "pizza" in the same way that Skyline chili is chili.
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My fiancée’s black Mini Cooper. Looking forward to tackling this in the next month or so. Challenging when it’s 105° and sunny every day though, so it may wait longer than that
Plan would be to start right at it with ClearCut and a microfiber cutting pad |
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Well, it’s not perfect by any means but it’s a big improvement. It’s also 103° today so I was going faster and covering bigger areas than I really should have. But I’ll take it. Carpro Clearcut followed by Meguiar’s M205
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Oh and the Sun Joe pressure washer and MTM foam cannon worked great too!
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