Freshened up the Paint on My Black F
01-29-13, 12:47 PM
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Freshened up the Paint on My Black F
01-29-13, 01:03 PM
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Great job man. Black cars are for sure my favorite color to detail. You can see the huge improvements you are making. It always feel nice when you step back after you are done and take it all in.
01-29-13, 01:19 PM
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01-29-13, 03:32 PM
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Looks amazing! As I've always said, black cars are the best right after a wash and detail. The shine and luster really does make it worthwhile to put in the effort and elbow grease. That being said, there's a lot of elbow grease, and constant at that, just to keep it looking that way. Props to you!
01-29-13, 08:17 PM
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You paid someone to do this? Not to be negative, but hopefully you take this as positive criticism. Either 1) you got a killer deal and hey, it is what it is... or 2) you got ripped off because they did a crappy job.
I hope he left out some photos. In almost ALL of the pictures, with the 50/50 shots, the side that has been improved still has defects in the paint.
Don't get me wrong, he improved the car by A LOT...but to me, he could have went over the paint one more time with a finer product to further smoothen the paint off. Like I said, maybe you only paid for 80-90% correction. And even with his "second pass" you can still see holograms. You can't fully correct a really bad car, but you can remove holograms.
In this picture, you can clearly still see holograms in the paint that are still left in the paint on the left side.
He states "Now if you look real close to the polished side, you’ll notice that there is plenty of holograms being left behind. Truly inevitable, so the proper thing to do was to give it a second pass."
With the statement above, it looks like he's using a rotary buffer. Because only when using a rotary buffer can you put holograms into the paint while trying to CORRECT the paint. Unless he's using a cutting pad with a very strong compound on a DA, in which you can still put holograms into the paint.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a detail snob, but I've detailed a number of cars, and although it's a huge improvement, looks like he cut a couple corners. And the paint on the IS F is anything but "semi soft" as some of those comments have posted. BUT, all paint is different. My IS F seems to have very hard paint.
I hope he left out some photos. In almost ALL of the pictures, with the 50/50 shots, the side that has been improved still has defects in the paint.
Don't get me wrong, he improved the car by A LOT...but to me, he could have went over the paint one more time with a finer product to further smoothen the paint off. Like I said, maybe you only paid for 80-90% correction. And even with his "second pass" you can still see holograms. You can't fully correct a really bad car, but you can remove holograms.
In this picture, you can clearly still see holograms in the paint that are still left in the paint on the left side.
He states "Now if you look real close to the polished side, you’ll notice that there is plenty of holograms being left behind. Truly inevitable, so the proper thing to do was to give it a second pass."
With the statement above, it looks like he's using a rotary buffer. Because only when using a rotary buffer can you put holograms into the paint while trying to CORRECT the paint. Unless he's using a cutting pad with a very strong compound on a DA, in which you can still put holograms into the paint.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a detail snob, but I've detailed a number of cars, and although it's a huge improvement, looks like he cut a couple corners. And the paint on the IS F is anything but "semi soft" as some of those comments have posted. BUT, all paint is different. My IS F seems to have very hard paint.