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19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking like...
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:22 pm
by Lotustuart
Below are the before and after pictures of my new Bongo. The paint was horrendous when I picked it up. Really cloudy and it felt like sand paper to touch. After a little bit (well actually ALOT) of TLC I`m really pleased with the result!
Spoiler before
Spoiler after
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:23 pm
by Lotustuart
Bonnet before
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:25 pm
by Lotustuart
Bonnet after
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:26 pm
by Lotustuart
AFT half polished
ignore the lower line thats just the light. The curved line shows the difference in the AFTs fininsh.
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:27 pm
by Lotustuart
Finished Article
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:30 pm
by Lotustuart
Finish now like glass
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:39 pm
by Dr Fingers
Pretty impressive: would you like to share the secret ingredients (apart from lots of elbow grease, that is!).
Derek
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:44 pm
by Lotustuart
its mostly Meguiars...
Megs NXT Wash
Megs Clay kit
Megs Ultimate compound
Megs Final poilsh compound
Megs Prewax sealant
and Concours 50/50 Wax
All compounds and sealant applied with a PorterCable Random orbital Polisher, the rest by hand.
Pricey, but worth every penny.
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:11 pm
by nigelgibson
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:38 pm
by Dr Fingers
Think I'm going to have to get me some..
great job!
Derek
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:11 pm
by maviczap
Can you do mine for me
£5er ok
Nice job
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:16 pm
by drivememad
It looks too good to eat my tea off even
you've done a fantastic job [are you taking commissions?]
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:24 pm
by stuc
Excellent, as a painter that looks good to me, nice to see an effort put in.
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:30 am
by onewheeltoofew
Wow. right, that's inspired me to do a proper job on mine now!
Re: 19 Hours of polishing gets a 16 year old car looking lik
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:07 am
by Northern Bongolow
