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Yeah so has the lancer as seen at my photo album
Rate my workmanship http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/album?.dir=14ea
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OK for all you guys who want to see pics
Http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/album?.dir=14ea Check out the change in the lancer
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Well millard and I got together and there are some great pics from todays work by hand and machine
One very happy customer indeed Click on the photo album to see the new pics
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dam good day it was, i have never polished a car in my life and now im well on the way to making my xr8 look better than the day it rolled out the factory and keeping it that way. great range of products and all easy to use witch helps for beginers like me. thanks heaps matt
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What would you use to get stone chips covered up? i drove from Cairns to TSV on the weekend... ended up with a bucketload of stone chips....
(White BA so i was thinking of using some touch up paint... but after i used it on one stone chip i noticed the touch up paint it a different white to my car  wtf
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Well it's best to get a stone chip and scratch repair company in your state/area to re paint the front bar
Using touch up, unless you want to spend ages with a toothpick, will give a blotty finish and look tatty Once you get them fixed, either apply a stone chip stopper spray which is a rock hard coating but will leave a thick orange peel finish which you may not like, apply that 3M transparent film, get a car bra from the great guys at car bra in campbellfield, making sure to apply glad wrap to the bonnet and front before applying the bra to prevent scratches and scuffing from the wind If you chose to avoid a car bra, make sure on trips to stay at least two car lengths behind a truck and not sit up it's bum and go to the extreme left of the road when a truck is coming towards you I did that on saturday when I went to millard's place and didn't get a chip, although my car has heaps of acrylic sealant coatings and just put a coat of a rock hard 12 month carnuaba wax on the day before Great stuff that.
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Cheers for the tips...
I'll let you know how i go... it is about time for a new front bar anyways. so i might bite the bullet and get an XR6T front bar... |
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Hey mate, I have just gone and put 3 different cutting compounds on, as the paint had a real rough texture to it. but after cutting it 3 times, with different cuts, i cant get the roughness out of it. I took it too a detailer, one of my mates so not sure how good he reallyy is, but he said he hasnt seen anything like it before, it is like it has overspray all of it, but its not overspray. Do you have any suggestions on oher things i could do? i am going to take it to the spraypainters and see what they say, but would like a opinion on it first. cheers Ben
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Aurora 98
Hey mate, I have just gone and put 3 different cutting compounds on, as the paint had a real rough texture to it. but after cutting it 3 times, with different cuts, i cant get the roughness out of it. I took it too a detailer, one of my mates so not sure how good he reallyy is, but he said he hasnt seen anything like it before, it is like it has overspray all of it, but its not overspray. Do you have any suggestions on oher things i could do? i am going to take it to the spraypainters and see what they say, but would like a opinion on it first. cheers Sounds like a heap of industrial fallout (iron filings) from foundries, railway lines and factories and possibly other contamination as well My advice is get yourself a clay bar and go over it while the car is wet (after shampooing it) or use a proper clay lubricant with the car clean and dry I have the sonus ultra fine clay bars, though I think you may need a fine or medium grade clay If you car is not black, I recommend the red clay bar from clay magic It will leave some marring that you will have to polish out with a soft to medium polish but all that roughness will be long gone and you will not believe the difference I hope you used the cutting compounds by hand as a machine buffer used three times would take off most of your clearcoat or single stage paint Soon the werkstatt 200 gram medium clay bars will be in stock Look up my claying tips way back in this thread (probably page 2 - 5) for application instructions and more tips
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You may find it hard to believe but you can have an old car with paint better than new
All it takes is the right maintenance and being smart about polishing Sure my bus is only eight years old but it is getting better with age and I'm not polishing it This is the result from two steps with a ultra fine compound, burnishing polish, clearkote vanilla, red and yellow mooses, five coats of jeff's werkstatt acrylic jett and four coats of collinite marque de elegance wax With every coat, the paint gets deeper, wetter and shinier Got a real glassy finish to it now with another two coats to go before the pores are full This is my car's bonnet today!
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Yes it's a commodore, however notice the lustre of the paint on my tassie customers car
This is after just washing it with four star ultimate shampoo/conditioner
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Before the wash job
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Here is an interior article I sent to the MG car club of SA
Thought I would add it here
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did you polish that commodore aswell or just the wash?
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No she hasn't polished it yet, she has Sonus SFX 2 and clearkote vanilla moose there ready to go though for when it warms up
She is about to be my tassie agent Love the wheels on the car in your avatar
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