06-24-2020, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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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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06-24-2020, 03:33 PM | #2 |
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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.
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06-24-2020, 03:58 PM | #3 |
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That's pretty good improvement.
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06-24-2020, 04:14 PM | #4 |
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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.
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This picture is of a part of the driver's side rear fender.
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06-24-2020, 04:19 PM | #6 |
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Particularly considering that the "before" picture was previously polished by me. It's not going to be possible to get *all* the scratches out, but I anticipate getting it a little bit better and blacker with followup treatments.
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06-24-2020, 04:53 PM | #7 |
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Actually not terrible as is on the passenger side.
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06-24-2020, 05:13 PM | #8 |
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06-24-2020, 09:23 PM | #9 |
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Wrap it in something obnoxious
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06-24-2020, 09:44 PM | #10 |
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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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